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The tickets have been placed! Good luck!
I won’t be able to make it due to a schedule conflict, but I can donate some NFL game tickets to the raffle or for a cache prize or whatever. Who would I send them to?
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Originally posted by skarolek:
Frequency? You meant “talk group”, right? One thing I’ve wondered about it sounds like not only is there no obvious distinction of where someone talking on the parks TG is, there is no obvious distinction of individual
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You are right when you say talk groups (TG). Each park has a TG in addition there is a ranger TG. Each park has a number designation, so any unit at that park uses the same number, such as 929, and adds an A or B to it or other designation such as “lifeguard” or “launch”. Naga-Waukee’s TG is especially busy on weekends in the summer with boat launch traffic. In the old days when the whole park system had one frequency we all had to listen to their endless chatter!
If you would like to know the park numbers email me, but I suspect you already might have it figured out from a scanner website.
[email protected]Judging by what I heard on the park radio Wednesday night I think a team at Glow in the Dark ran into a “Ranger Rick” instead of a Barney Fiffe, actually a Ranger Cathy to be specific.
I knew something was up when I heard her come over the park radio frequency and ask if anyone knew what urban “geo-kaking” was. She said people with flashlights were looking for external markers. I figured she must be at Minooka.Uh-oh. I’m not sure if I will be able to make it yet as I have a conflict with a Packer game I have tickets for on that date.
I wonder how many others this will effect given the popularity of the green and gold.
So, Can we expect to see a new multi with unusually large distance between stations in the near future?
Anyway what a fun way to do a day of caching. The rental car idea sounds like a good way to lower costs. Do they have a rental agency right by the dock? How long does it take to cross the lake? Interesting that security is so tight. I remember during my India trip the struggle I had trying to explain to armed security police why I had magnetic and rock key hiders and so many batteries with me. It hadn’t occured to me how suspicious this stuff would look to security. I should have put it in my checked-in luggage. As it turned out I never got to plant a cache anyway due to the theft of my Garmin V in Amsterdam! Too bad I had a plan to hide a micro rock on Elephanta Island by the Elephanta Caves. This too requires a ferry trip, from Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay).[This message has been edited by RangerBoy (edited 06-19-2004).]
Is he related to me?
Is he a park ranger?
Being a park ranger I usually can NOT go on weekends. That is when they need us to patrol the most.
However I usually go on Mon & Tue which is not too bad as there is less crowd, more quiet, and a better chance to spot animals in the wild.
Unfortunately the animal I’ve seen the most lately is the dreaded mosquito!
They are out in unbelievably heavy swarms! The other night at Menomonee I was about to evict some illegal swimmers but the little blood suckers did it for me! You should have seen how fast the couple ran back to their car!Funny. The idea for a long distance multi crossed my mind when I heard about this ferry. That is until I saw the prices! Especially since your car fee does not cover the driver! I don’t know how it will keep running with those high boarding rates!
I had thought of trying it to visit relatives in Michigan but it looks like I’ll end up going around the lake via Chicago and wonderful Gary, Indiana (armpit of the midwest).Wow you experienced a 10-54 “livestock on the highway”! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used that code with other rangers. However when we say bring 10-54 items with you, we mean it as in pick up a burger at a drive-thru. Get it, livestock = hamburger?
I’ve never heard of anyone using the code for it’s intended purpose until now! Cool!I actually didn’t find any on me after event caches. However one of those little critters must have thought it was a travel bugs because when I got home I found it had hitched a ride on my jacket!
Maybe the ticks think it is their year, like the cicada!Hopefully someone won’t trade it for a “McToy”!
My finds
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CA
AZ
DC
VA
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Agra, IndiaI have now uploaded the individual pics to Dog Day Afternoon cache page. Let me know if you see your pic so I can label it correctly. Thanks.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
Lack of voters also seems to have a great effect on the results.
This is what I noticed too, election turnout is very low for these things. Often they seem neck and neck with maybe 2 votes each, then someone casts the last vote and tips it to the winner.
Maybe the state should be divided into regions too. Someone way up north probably doesn’t visit south eastern caches on a regular basis.
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