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Thanks for a job well done. enjoy ‘retirement’ 🙂

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The West side madison Aldi store has them for $69. (behind Menards)
I just picked one up, they keep them in their office, just ask during checkout.

Might have to get another one for our Niece and Nephews in MO.

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I know this is an old post…

I’ve collected afew sig items, as part of my trading at a cache. Though I’m not sure that they should be counted as trade items. I don’t leave one of our sig items as a trade for something I take out (unless it was another sig item) though I may just leave sig items in addition to the trade or alone if I “TN”

I think you should leave your own sig item if you take one there. I’m not sure about leaving someone elses sig item that you found earlier in another cache, unless I know they have done that cache. I like to think of sig items along the lines of us both having done the same cache, so there is a sort of connection there, but I think going to the Nth degree stuff is too much for sig items.

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You might try contacting the Greenfield parks department (in milwaukee) I know they have held several introduction to geocaching events for residents. I don’t know if they had a bunch of GPSr units or not, but worth a call anyway.

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While it would be abit of a trip, I’m hosting a paperless in Prairie du sac (sauk city) on Saturday April 29th. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=84c12c1e-5ca8-40ef-a7c7-91e2 d751dd25

It is free, and I’ll provide CDs with cachemate, gsak on them. It will be just abit past beginner, though we will provide handouts for doing Pocket Queries that work. (if we find the time we will add handouts for other portions of the class as well) And will focus alot on Cachemate and GSAK.

Cachemate can be used without GSAK, and we will show how to do that.

I found that Cachemate more than worth the $8 to register. I had used Plucker for awhile, but found it to be very cumbersome to load up the caches. And I feel GSAK is worth the cost as well for all the extra’s it adds, such as caching along a route. (also to be shown in class)

Also, as long as there is interest, we will try and continue to host these every few months.

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Mike of team: Not So Lost Puppies

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I paint over all of ours, and used paint pens to write Geocache on both large sides as well as the handle of the container. Except for the most recent adopted cache, I also put the GC number on the outside. I do always put the cache name and GC id onto the cover of the log book.

I think that at least the log should be required to have the GC ID and cache name on it as part of the process.

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actually I beleive that cache approvers/reviewers do have alot of latitude in approving a cache, even if it does meet all of the GC guidlines. If they deem an area oversaturated, they can reject further caches in that area. (I’ve seen that discussed quite abit in the GC forums)

I haven’t seen many of the series caches pop up all at once myself, maybe they are out of my area though. But you know they likely weren’t all scouted and placed the same day.
The Geocaching x01 series has been going out slowly. I don’t think doing a series spread out detracts from its attractiveness. Unless we are already making a trip to an area we wouldn’t rush out to find them regardless of it was a series or not.

Most of the series that I’ve done are a series in name only. Though they may be along the same trail, they are still individual caches.

I know that someone may put one where one of the series was going before you place the request, the same can happen if you are holding off on the early ones that are in place until they are all ready.

Though I agree that if the volume is picking up then it would be a good idea to get more involved in the process.

And I want to express my appreciation of our reviewers on a job well done.

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Mike of team: Not So Lost Puppies

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We’ve also had ours off by around 100′ for some time before it figures things out. and I’ve had it that way even with several strong signals.

our most frequent time of issues is around dusk. We tried a cache and gave up after over 30minutes. found out we were never very close to it. I wonder how much the eastern WAAS satellite move has to do with any of it?

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We adopted one recently that had been down since November and just put it back online sunday afternoon.
GCQ4GT
it is a tough one, though pretty easy terrain. It was our first FTF, and now our first adopted cache

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While we complain about the gas prices… we aren’t as affected as many, being that we own two hybrid cars

Insight and Civic Hybrids. (60+ and 40+ mpg)

I just haven’t bothered to get it for hers yet. We will probably do that before we host the paperless event this weekend though. so far the turn out is small enough for lots of personal training.

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Originally posted by bnb:
Well, maybe not *all* caches will become permanent caches, so you won’t necessarily get a smiley for *every* one you find. I know one of mine is too close to an existing cache (although on the other side of a body of water). The contest should still be worth the find, anyway.

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Sometimes those will get approved if you have to travel further than .1 miles to get to it.

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Mike of team: Not So Lost Puppies

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I’ve never had any issues with hotsync not synching the entire Palm, data, OS and software. That may be another difference between the Palm and windows OS PDAs.

I have had a couple instances of my PDA locking up (I believe it was because the power button was being pressed down for a long time – in my pocket) where only a hard reset would get it to do anything. Hotsync and it was back to normal.

We will likely be activating cachemate for my wife’s Palm so that if it happens while out caching we would have a backup. I keep all my cachemate files on the SD card, so we could move the card over and be good to go. (if we didn’t sync them both with the data initially)

I used to have a palm with AAA batteries, and as long as I changed them before they were totally dead I never lost any data in the PDA. And as long as I didn’t keep the batteries out too long. Make sure you have the replacements ready to put in before you take the old ones out.

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Mike of team: Not So Lost Puppies

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I do have a Palm 515 (color) from the previous class. (the last of the palms I bought for the classes)

It has a new battery in it, and is fully functional, includes charging/USB sync base, and the standard flip cover. I wont be at the event on the 22nd, but I will be at the paperless encore

I am asking $60. You are welcome to try it out at the class before you decide on it.

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Mike of team: Not So Lost Puppies

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Others are correct about checking your database, user waypoints. and also the baud rates matching.

But yes, you can use the SD card to hold waypoints, one of the card utilites in the menu is to load waypoints/routes (also to save ones you have in the gps to the SD card).

Since the GPSr can only hold 500, and only 200 (or 250) of them can have comments, I try and limit my waypoint downloads to about 200 caches. (easy to do with GSAK, not sure how easy with easyGPS) and make multiple waypoint files.

I have one file with all the caches within 30 miles of home, another 30miles from work, 30 miles from my dads house, and generally 30 miles from anywhere we are going, such as an event more than 30 miles from home.
each file is only about 20k, so you can stuff alot of them onto an SD card. just make sure you replace them with fresh lists before you go hunting to get rid of archived/unavailable caches. Makes it great for caching on a trip where there will be thousands of potential caches between you and the destination (another use for GSAK is to select them based on distance from a plotted route)

I put the same caches into my PDA with the same area names.

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Does she have an SD card installed in the unit?

If not, I would suggest getting one, even a small 32MB or 64MB one will be plenty for most geocaching. If there are plans to get some mapping software in the future, get a larger one.

Then with an SD card reader, you should be able to export the waypoints directly to the card as a file, then you can have lots of different files and load/unload them as needed.

I have only twice used my cable to load waypoints… and even only doing a couple dozen would have been faster for me to remove the batteries, take out the SD card, put it in the reader, export the waypoints to a file on the card, put the card back, put the batteries back and turn it on.
sounds like alot doesn’t it? but it can take nearly that long for a small list to copy across that cable.

Though I use GSAK for it instead of easyGPS, so easyGPS may not have the option to save a magellan waypoint file?

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