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Originally posted by Miata:
Anyone know where I could pick up some of those nifty Millitary Decon containers we used at the High Cliff Geo-campout?
Yes, I bought all of those for WGA at Army Surplus Warehouse for $1.79 each.
PLEASE Before you release any of these containers into the woods, use a hairdryer to heat and remove the lable on the container, and a clothes iron to melt and remove the embossed instructions on the lid (use a piece of aluminum foil between the lid and the iron so the iron isn’t messed up). Those containers held chemical/biological decontamination kits, and anyone finding one in the woods and reading the instructions and lable could create quite a stir of panic with the authorities.
[This message has been edited by CacheCows (edited 06-16-2003).]
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Originally posted by Geotrippers:
I was just thinking, how about if we offer informal help to all newbies on a regular basis.
My wife and I have on occasion announced ‘newbie’ classes that we hold in our area on local Internet message boards. We’ve had as few as 5 and as many as 20, and they have always been well received. There appears to be a need for these types of introductory get togethers.
If I could find a B&W PocketPC device so that the batteries lasted weeks and not hours, I might give it a serious look. Until then though, I prefer a B&W Palm device for geocaching.
As soon as we submitted it for approval it was turned down and archived.
Your cache was not turned down… There were concerns and questions that prevented it from getting an immediate approval. Once those were answered/resolved, the cache would be approved.
Please note that when a new cache you submit is archived by an admin, in no manner does that mean its permanent. An admin can un-archive a cache just as quickly as they archived it.
It is common practice to archive a cache to get that cache out of the ‘pending’ queue, while working on issues with it’s owner(s). Once everything is resolved, the cache is un-archived.
If it was a permanent archival, then the admin would not have bothered to ask you any questions and/or try and work with you to resolve issues.
Good luck with your new cache!
[This message has been edited by CacheCows (edited 06-05-2003).]
I tried to explain this awhile ago, but guess I didn’t do too good of a job
There is nothing wrong with the WGA site…
We pull the Wisconsin recent logs from the geocaching.com recent logs page. That page on geocaching.com updates every 15 minutes, but it only lists 200 logs. So, if there are more than 200 total logs made on geocaching.com in any 15 minute period, then those logs will never appear on the geocaching.com recent log page, and if they never appear on that page, then they can never appear on the WGA Wisconsin recent log page.
Look at it this way. Lets say that at noon geocaching.com updates the recent log page. Then at 12:01 you log a wisconsin cache. Then between 12:02 and 12:14 300 other people log caches all around the world.
At 12:15 geocaching.com updates its recent log page, but only shows the 200 most recent logs. As 301 logs were made during that 15 minute period, numbers 1-100 will never appear, they were pushed out by numbers 101-301 which were more recent. That means your 12:01 log will never show up on the geocaching.com recent log page.
It doesn’t matter how often WGA checks in with geocaching.com, if geocaching.com never shows a recent log due to too much activity, then we can not show it either.
The only fix is for geocaching.com to shorten their update interval and/or increase the number of recent logs listed. Of course, as this problem only shows up during peak load periods, I doubt Jeremy will change it.
[This message has been edited by CacheCows (edited 06-04-2003).]
Does this map help? Its linked off of the WGA home page.
When I tossed my dart at the center of what appears to be the highest density, it hit Dastardly Snidely Whiplash!
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Originally posted by Jonathan F. Gorton:
I’ve had a VHF license for more than 20 years now and according to my license, as a corporation or organization, you can have members of that entity use the radio under your liscence. That is what I intend to do in this circumstance.
Those are the rules for VHF business band. Here are the rules for GMRS:
The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a land-mobile radio service available for short-distance two-way communications to facilitate the activities of an adult individual and his or her immediate family members, including a spouse, children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, and in-laws (47 CFR 95.179). Normally, as a GMRS system licensee, you and your and family members would communicate among yourselves over the general area of your residence or during recreational group outings, such as camping or hiking.
In particular, note this section under Eligibilty:
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An individual 18 years of age or older, who is not a representative of a foreign government, is eligible to apply for a GMRS system license. Individual family members are all ages are subsequently eligible to operate GMRS stations and units within the licensed system.
A non-individual (any entity that is not an individual; corporations, partnerships, associations, governmental units etc.) is not eligible to license a new system or make a major modifications to an existing GMRS system license.
WGA would not be eligible to be a liscense holder. You would not be allowed to purchase several GMRS radios and loan them out. GMRS is liscensed strictly for use between family members, as odd as that may be.
Brian (Team Grousetales) and myself have gone round and round on this issue, seeking a way that we could use GMRS for WGA events. There is just no latitude in the FCC rules for this use. Each family at the event would have to have their own $75 liscense.
Sorry… [ ][This message has been edited by CacheCows (edited 05-25-2003).]
I’ve toyed with purchasing GMRS, but havn’t yet, mostly because of the $75 liscensing fee on top of the cost of the radio, and because you can’t loan one to anyone except a family member. So if you go hiking with friends etc., they have to have their own radio, you can’t give them a spare.
Joe,
As long as we have no conflict with the date (most of our summer is open), we would be happy to help/attend. We’re tied up July 10-14th.
OH! Then I can come! All this time I’ve thought it was a 4 hour drive up past Eau Claire! SLight difference!
If the location is listed only by co-ordinates, then making it a cache event posted on geocaching.com is a great idea!
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Originally posted by RangerBoy:
Do people take them and not understand they are different from the usual trinkets you swap?
This is exactly the case… some folks just don’t read, some don’t comprehend. Considering that TB owners often pick nice object to attach their tags to, this makes the TB often the nicest item in a cache. So those that don’t understand make their trade for the TB and just keep it.
TBs have a high mortality rate, and a low rate of success in accomplishing their goals from what I’ve seen. Mine often go missing for months. I’ve got one that’s been stuck on a mountain in the Alps for over a year. I’ve had hitchhikers dissapear on me also.
These items just seem to be too complicated for a large number of folk to understand how to handle them.
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Originally posted by Snoshu:
Never did I say to boycott the product!
Didn’t mean to imply that you were telling others to boycott Magellan, just that you yourself were planning on boycotting them, based on your comment Strike One!!
I hereby apologize for any harm I may have done Thales Navigation. And in the process I learn that maybe I shoud have looked into it a bit further before posting a comment that at the time, for me, was really just for fun…
There was no harm done Snoshu, the whole purpose of my post was just to get you and others to do some due diligence in research before exercising your right to boycott a company, that’s all
Based on some of the folks that posted on the earlier thread, I just want to confirm that this is in Menomonee, just west of Eau Claire, right?
Here is a picture of the new board members:
Please…
Do thorough research before you start boycotting companies based upon French ties. If you want to boycot French products as a political statement, that’s certainly your right. But considering that a boycot is intended by design to hurt a company, then make sure you are hurting your intended victim.
Magellan, who makes the Meridian line of GPSRs, is owned by Thales Navigation. The Corporate headquarters, in other words its corporate head, is in Santa Clara California. Their consumer products division, which is what we are talking about here, is in San Dimas, California. Their manufacturing plant is in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
They only have one facility for Thales Navigation in France, which is their European headquarters. Thier Consumer Sales division for Europe however is in our allie’s country, Britian.
This only took me one mouse click off of the Magellan website to discover… so please, research before you boycot.
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