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Congrats to both of you!

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@RSplash40 wrote:

I thought this was cool, haven’t seen one up close but seems to be a rising idea all over the place:

Powermat

Looks like you get 8 “popular” connectors or can buy addon’s and just drop your device on the pad rather than clicking things in and out.

Saw this in the store. You don’t “get 8 popular connectors”. The mat is 90 bucks and each “connector” is 30 bucks for each device and the store I visited had 3 device editions: Ipod touch/I phone, Blackberry something or other, and one other device.

Minimal investment of $120 for a single device to get a charger that you lay your device on rather than plug into the wall to charge.

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@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!

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@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..

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@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.

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@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.

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Congrats!!

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I have only found a single ‘indoor’ cache and it’s now archived.

GCR3QH

It was inside the same masoleum where my brother and maternal grand parents are buried. Very unique location for a cache… A former WGA Cache of the Month as well.

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@Team Black-Cat wrote:

@Team Deejay wrote:

Yes, but the problem is that it 80% of the logs on those caches are coming from Germany. Obviously he needs to add some sort of requirement that is not internet searchable. Maybe you could contact him and suggest that he adopt these caches to you (since I have already sent him a nastygram, maybe he will be amenable.)

GS won’t allow adoptions of virts anymore, will they?

That’s what I thought as well..

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@Decrepit wrote:

I create a bookmark list of solved puzzles, make it a private list rather than public and put the solved coordinates in the notes.

That’s a pretty darn good idea ❗

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@thepharmgirl wrote:

@-cheeto- wrote:

Printed cache pages with notes all over including in my truck, bedroom, desk drawers, etc. I don’t keep track of past solved coords and usually trash them over time which haunts me later.

yup… except mine are on random sheets of paper… and then months later, I don’t even know which coords go with which cache… I end up having to re-solve the puzzles. Oh well.

Been there, done that too!

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Stores that rhyme with Balfart that cary hundreds of pairs of a single style of kids winter boots all in a size 6.

Well, let’s just round the sizes and only carry the one in the middle!

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Stores with lot’s of workers folding clothes but only one teenage kid at the registers during Christmas shopping season! (Why have more than 1 register then if you don’t use them???)

Grr…

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Congrats!!

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@gotta run wrote:

I would not disable a cache for a particular season of weather. By doing so you’re essentially taking on greater responsibility for the safety of the cacher–now it’s ok to hunt, now it’s not ok to hunt. Seems to be a much greater chance of someone claiming “well you said it was ok now” if something goes wrong.

Not too play devils advocate but you disabled a bunch during deer gun. Isn’t that taking on safety of the cacher?

A slightly different reason for disabling for the winter might be to protect the container! If it gets frozen in place and damaged due to careless winter cachers that might be another good reason to disable during Winter.

Wow, it looks like s|s took this comment to heart!

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