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Oh brother……

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Unless Tie already has a bag of charcoal, we’ll actually need 2-3 bags of charcoal.

We could use about 4 cases of water total. 16oz bottles are best 🙂

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This is a great opportunity for us to look good with the DNR. They were excited about the WGA helping with a service project of some type. When they suggested a garlic mustard pull, we said we’d help.

I did my share of pulling at home last week. It was easy and painless. Gloves are helpful.

Hopefully we can get a good showing of cachers willing to take some time out to help the park 🙂

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@knoffer wrote:

Wonder if it was GMRS operating in the 460 MHZ range??

It could have been on FRS or GMRS. I was using a FRS/GMRS radio, and had the radio scanning in my backpack, just to hear area traffic. I don’t know if it was transmitting on the FRS or GMRS portion of the band.

The “tones” were not DTMF tones, it was music. Just like the Lincolnshire poacher song.

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Wow Bill, that is very facinating and creepy.

After playing some of the sound bites, I swear I heard the “lincolnshire Poacher” song. I have no idea what the numbers were, but the song was definately very similar, if not the exact same song. Once I heard it, I recognized it right away. Like I said, it sounded creepy, like from a Chucky movie.

Now there is no way I was picking up these Shortwave signals on my FRS radio. That would be impossible. Now this has really got my curiosity piqued !!!!!!!!!

This is a link to what sounds very similar to what I heard.

Thanks Bill !

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The WGA has ordered a face-cord and FU is bringing it to the group sites.
It was purchased locally. We’ll have plenty at group camp.

** edit: this wood is for the group sites **

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I’m a Ham radio guy, but my fox hunting gear is VHF. I don’t have directional antenna’s for UHF.

I’m not curious enough to drag my fox hunting gear along. I’m primarily concerned if this a regular occurance, it could interfer with our FRS repeater system. On the other hand, if this is some sort of meaningful communication, we could be interfering their communications.

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I think the dogs will be fine for the whole event, except the picnic area where we are based on Saturday.

Campfire and Pancake breakfast are at the group sites, so yes, dogs are allowed.

Remember, dogs are required to be on a leash at all times.

I’m bringing my dog along 🙂

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Quote from the guidelines:

Event caches are gatherings that are open to all geocachers and which are organized by geocachers. While a music concert, a garage sale, an organized sporting event, a ham radio field day or a town’s fireworks display might be of interest to a large percentage of geocachers, such events are not suitable for submission as event caches because the organizers and the primary attendees are not geocachers. In addition, an event cache should not be set up for the sole purpose of drawing together cachers for an organized hunt of another cache or caches. Such group hunts are best organized using the forums or an email distribution list.

As mentioned above, geocaching.com got rid of virtual caches years ago. It also does not fit the bill as an event cache, as the above guideline indicates.

You could publish the info in these forums and see if members would like to come see your field day site. Another option could be to place a permanant cache nearby, and have it published before Saturday. In this option, you need to conform to all the GC.com guidelines, and you would need to maintain it accordingly.

I think your best option is to post an invitation in the forums.

Field day is very interesting and a lot of fun. Anyone who visits would have the oportunity talk on the radios to people around the globe. I’d highly recommend it, and the kid will have fun too.

~kc9gmw

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I’ve been trying to contact the Director of Milwaukee County Parks. Haven’t received replies to my email yet.

It looks like most of this policy has been copied from the DNR’s policy. There are some items in this policy that have me very concerned, especially the “geocache land restoration act of 2007” 🙂

I think they need to set forth a policy that can succeed, not one that is doomed to fail from the beginning.

There are hundreds of geocaches in Milwaukee County Parks. Do all these cache owners need to fill out paperwork for caches that have been there for up years?

Perhaps we should organize a Permit compliance day. Everyone could submit their permit forms on the same day. It might make it easier for them to handle 500 permits on the same day, rather then spread them out 😉

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With all these kayaks on the lake, there won’t be room for anyone to cast a fishing line 🙂

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We should have a campfire cooking contest for Friday night. I’d be glad to be one of the judges 🙂

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I’d like to thank all of the volunteers that helped hide caches on Sunday. We had a good turnout, and the weather wonderful.

Many of these people drove hundreds of miles to help out. At today’s gas prices, that means they probably donated hundreds of gas dollars 🙂

Thanks for all your help !!

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Anyone get any ticks???

I sprayed down with Permanone and didn’t see any ticks. I did have a skeeter land on me while out hiding a cache.

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Thanks for the info !!

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@RSplash40 wrote:

What are the hide sheets going to look like? Standard gc.com print outs? Spreadsheet with just coords/terr/diff?

thanks

Mike

Are you talking about the ones for cache hiding day? If so, I have them in an attachment a few messages above this one.

Here is a copy/paste of the hiding form:

WGA Geo-Campout Temp Hides 2007 – Hartman Creek

Stamp Name of your cache:
Hidden by:
Coords: N  W 
Container: DECON MICRO OTHER/WHAT?
Difficulty (1-5) Terrain (1-5)
Hint (Must supply a hint):

Which Trail? What Side? N S E W
Parking Lot?
Parking Coords: N  W 
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