30MAR05

Round 28 stated-
One of the first known “geocachers” was is named Metsäsissit, who hunted locations in the Greater Helsinki, Finland area based on coordinates since the 1980s. Although they used 1:20,000 maps and half-a-millimeter measurement accuracy which gives 10-meter accuracy for the location, they started to use GPS in the early 1990’s to determine accuracy.

5. According to the aforementioned profiles, how many cache hides & finds does he have total?

Proper responses were-
1. The newsgroup headings were:

• Online maps of the UK with Lat/Lon
• Magellan Color clarity
• Multi-Form Elliptic Integrands (Long)
• Nextel i530 and GPS
• CeBIT2005 GPS report is up
• Map Send software
• Sportrak color
• AUSTRALIAN RED LIGHT AND SPEED CAMERA POI DATA

2. Selective Availability (SA), means that the satellites “lie” about where they are, and the satellite clocks lie about the correct time. This prevents a civilian receiver from doing better than 100m accuracy (95 percent horizontal accuracy) in stand-alone mode.

3. On May 3rd, a container of goodies was hidden by a someone outside of Portland, Oregon – in celebration of the removing of Selective Availability. By May 6th the cache was visited twice, and logged in the logbook once.

Mike Teague was the first to find the container, and built his personal web page to document these containers and their locations that were posted to the sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup.

In July of 2000, Jeremy Irish found Mike Teague’s web site and found his first cache outside of Seattle, Washington. Recognizing the potential of the game (but never expected the growth), Jeremy approached Mike Teague with a new site design, used the name Geocaching, and developed a new web site adding virtual logs, maps, and a way to make it easier to maintain caches as the sport grew. The site was alive for a while, but the official torch was passed to Jeremy on September 6.

4. President of Groundspeak (The parent company to Geocaching.com) is Jeremy Irish.

Links to two of his user accounts are:
Jeremy – http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id=3
iryshe – http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id=2

5. Account “Jeremy” lists 199 finds and 3 hides, “Iryshe” lists 0 finds and 38 hides

Points winners for the round were-
Miata — 3
Cheesehead Dave — 2
PharmTeam — 1
Greyhounder — 1

Wisconsin Geocaching Trivia- Final Scores

Miata — 50
PharmTeam — 47
Greyhounder — 44
Brkster — 43
Fishcachers — 24
Bnb — 19
Arcangl7 — 15
Skarolek –11
Wooden_Nickel — 11
Mr Andersen — 10
Folk Trakers — 6
Waukesha Wizards — 5
Cheesehead Dave — 2
What’s Next? — 1
The Beast — 1

Congratulations to Miata, the Wisconsin Geocaching Trivia Champion!!!!!

For winning the competition, Miata will receive a $25.00 gift certificate to Gander Mountain, and a pre-prepared ammo can cache- stuffed full of trading items and ready to be hidden.

A special thanks to all those who joined in the competition. Thanks also to all the other fellow WGA members who showed support and interest in the game.

Thanks folks, it’s been a lot of fun!
See you on the trails at the 2005 WGA Campout!

Cathunter
Russ

[This message has been edited by Cathunter (edited 03-30-2005).]