indoor caches

[Lostby7]

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

If you have a Garmin nothing can stop you…. 😈
Most of these have clues to the location where the cache will be found…you typically do not use the GPS once you enter the building.

[Captain and Mate]

We’ve only found two. One had a clue outside which told us where to look inside. The other was in a bar in Florida-we just looked around until we saw it and could have asked the bartender for help, if needed.

[CodeJunkie]

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

AHHHH – There’s the challenge. The couple that I’ve done have provided clues to find the final once indoors. “Near room 321” for instance.

[-cheeto-]

@Lostby7 wrote:

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

If you have a Garmin nothing can stop you…. 😈
Most of these have clues to the location where the cache will be found…you typically do not use the GPS once you enter the building.

Funny related item. When I was at the Cache Bash this past year, I was indoors at the court house and had a great signal inside. Most other cachers could not get a signal at all. I asked several people and none I asked got a signal at all. This included many csx owners as well as newer Garmin models.

I’ve gotten a lot of slack for my GPS (Garmin Vista HCX — duct tape holding on the rubber seal and all) but I was about the only one in that room with a locked 20 foot accuracy signal inside that old court house and I turned it on for the first time indoors, I didn’t walk inside with it on.

It also gets a lock in all rooms of my house including the basement. My “home coordinates” on the website are inside my bedroom.

Comes in handy when you end up in a hotel on business travel and turn it on and you know where you are without having to go outside.

[Lostby7]

@CodeJunkie wrote:

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

AHHHH – There’s the challenge. The couple that I’ve done have provided clues to find the final once indoors. “Near room 321” for instance.

One directed me to a book, one to a store (that one might be hard to get past reviewers these days) and one directed me to a bar area.

[Lostby7]

@-cheeto- wrote:

It also gets a lock in all rooms of my house including the basement. My “home coordinates” on the website are inside my bedroom.

I judge a GPS as good if it passes the “bathtub test”.

[-cheeto-]

@CodeJunkie wrote:

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

AHHHH – There’s the challenge. The couple that I’ve done have provided clues to find the final once indoors. “Near room 321” for instance.

I suppose I mispoke earlier when I commented I only did 1 ‘indoors’ as I think I’ve expanded my idea of ‘indoors’ slightly if you count being in ‘shelter’ as indoors (hows that for skirting any hints). So in those other cases, I beleive the owner was able to determine coords ‘outside’ and if you thought about it for a bit you could then come up with a way to find it ‘inside’.

So I guess that means I’ve actually done 3 ‘indoor’ caches.

[-cheeto-]

@Lostby7 wrote:

@-cheeto- wrote:

It also gets a lock in all rooms of my house including the basement. My “home coordinates” on the website are inside my bedroom.

I judge a GPS as good if it passes the “bathtub test”.

I’ll let ya know..

[Braid Beards Gang]

GC33A5 Puzzled in Cedarburg

This indoor one hasn’t been mentioned. It is a fun cache to do on a cold day.

[gotta run]

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

The GPSr only has to be “integral to the hunt,” it doesn’t say you have to be able to use it at GZ.

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Smashing Ground]

I’ve only did one so far.The Great Oklahoma TB Race Cache GCJB9C.
it was in the tourist info building.
i also believe there is one in Sun Prairie by Madison,Only in Wisconsin – Redux GC1PV1K.

[EnergySaver]

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

You have to remove the waterproof seal on your GPS receiver.
(Just Kidding)

[amita17]

@JimandLinda wrote:

Get busy, Debby! Make the Bookmark List! 😉

I don’t have the vaguest idea how to do that. I suspect it involves computer code.

But I am making the old-fashioned paper list. So keep the suggestions coming!

[-cheeto-]

@EnergySaver wrote:

@Todd300 wrote:

How can a GPS get a satellite lock indoors?

You have to remove the waterproof seal on your GPS receiver.
(Just Kidding)

And then duct tape it back on!

[ecorangers]

Some more….Murfreesboro TN GCHK9B.
There’s a tb hotel in a surf shop in Miami/Fort Lauderdale area.
Also one in a bar in Key West, it was up in a canoe hanging from the ceiling. Tami

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