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At GD, the repeater was at the highest point short of Chimney Rock, which was over by the group camp site. We tried a high point over by the group camp, but it was just to far from the Enee base camp for day use. The location we used was higher than that rock pinnacle across from Enee. As the park for the 2003 geo-campout is smaller than GD, we should be able to locate a good spot for it, but I do like the idea of the blimp! Be great for advertising too!
While I don’t personally have one, one of my employees just got the GMRS version of the Rhino, which has shared frequencies; it reduces power on the shared frequencies.
All the GMRS radios I’ve seen that share frequencies automatically reduce their power on those shared frequencies. I believe the FCC rules for those frequencies mandate the lower wattage.
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The campout logo probably won’t be ready till much closer to the event. We’ll have to see if there is enough lead time for product usage. Perhaps we can move up the logo design if there is enough interest.
Thanks for the reply on the Christmas items. Perhaps next year
Team Rusch,
I realize this is off topic…
Are there any holiday related items that could be added to the store? Ornaments or the like?
While I could see opening COTY to include nominees for COTM, it can’t be done… sorry. We didn’t keep a complete list of those that were nominated each month, only the winners.
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Originally posted by cacheseekers:
The page ID is different then the waypoint ID. Which, may be intentional to thwort activities like this.
Actually, they aren’t different.
For example, the Cache Blue as the sky has an ID of 44437 and a waypoint of GCAD95.
The GC part just means GeoCache, so ignore it, and you will see that AD95 is the same as 44437.
Right?… Oh okay, so the waypoint is in hex (base 16) and the ID is in decimal (base 10). Just fire up Calc in Windows, under View select Scientific mode, and then type in 44437 and click on the Hex dot and you will see its AD95.
Entire site? Ouch…
Remember that Jeremy considers the data stored on his servers to be his property. While available for personal use by geocachers, downloading his entire site would quickly be noticed and could cause considerable problems.
One reason he resists this is that the data changes so quickly, you could easily have outdated cache pages 15 minutes after you downloaded it.
I personally limit myself to just downloading the pages for the caches I’m going after in the next couple of days.
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Originally posted by Priebe’s Pride:
Any suggestions about things I should cover?
Yes, Cache are NEVER buried!
I was introducing a few outdoors types this past week to geocaching, and the first comment was “so these things are buried, right?”
Tell your co-worker good job! Hope the pack speech goes as well!
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Technically, any cacher who visits the WGA website is a member. We encourage participation on the forums (hence 100 ‘members’), but its not a requirement.
We’ve had many participate at the picnics or campout, others by email, many put the WGA logo on their cache pages. If you geocache in Wisconsin, consider yourself a member
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A sidenote:
The version of geocoins that are trackable like TB’s were created by Moun10bike. His are trackable due to a special arrangement he has with Jeremy. Moun10bike has donated considerable time and physical material to the geocaching.com website, and Jeremy thanked him by adding his geocoins into the TB database.
Steve,
When Arn & I hunted that cache, we had entered the wrong co-ordinates for the actual Den. After finding and logging the cache, our GPSR said the den was a mile or so away out by RT 32. Not knowing what the ‘den’ was, we hiked back out and drove to the location, just to see a house there. Figured it was the home of the cache placer, and kept going. So we ended up missing the whole point of the cache, the Lion’s Den Gorge.
Thanks for the link you left, as it had lots of info, maps, and pictures of the gorge, giving us an idea of what we missed! We plan on making a trip back to see it. If you go to the meeting, would you mind summarizing on this thread what happens?
Thanks!
Alan
We had previously seen the text of the article and were impressed, but now seeing it in print, boy, it looks even better!
Nice job Ken!
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Looks great!
We’re looking forward to hearing the DNR’s response
Here is my two cents.
A) Swap section 1 and section 2, so that we define the term geocache before we use it.
B) In a number of places in section 3, ‘Park Manager’ is mentioned as being contacted or doing something. As the Park Manager was earlier instructed to designate a contact, it would probably be clearer to both DNR staff and cachers using this policy to hold with the same designation of geocaching contact.
C) In section 1.2 the Park Manager is instructed to publish areas that are off limits. In section 3.1 geocachers are told to abide by that published list. So section 3.2 is redundant and could be construed by a geocacher as being the published list, and ignore the real published list.
D) In section 4.1, the wording on illegal items states that these types of items should not be allowed to remain in a geocache. The implication is that they might be placed in the cache (which of course is true). Something needs to be added to balance that statement in our favor. Perhaps:
Inappropriate items such as food, drugs, alcohol, hazardous materials, knives and other weapons, etc. are never allowed in a cache. The cache owner must diligently maintain their cache, and immediately remove any such items that are inadvertently placed in the cache.
E) Section 4.3 again refers to the Park Manager rather than the geocaching contact.
I like all of it except the limit to only transparent containers, and I certainly understand their reason for it.
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