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If you are looking for a new gps Cabelas have most of the Garmins on sale right now. The Oregon 550T is on sale for $350

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Try calibrating the screen and see if that helps
“Setup>? Display> Press To Begin Screen Calibration> Follow the instruction>”

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Happy Birthday Bec and thanks for all you do!! Enjoy your day.

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@TheBalks wrote:

As a local cacher let me add a bit of insight to this whole conversation. I have found LOTS of deans caches, and at first I was a fan of all the caches that he placed, but about 2 years ago that changed when he decided he liked getting DNF notifications more than he liked smileys. He told that to me and many others in this area that he LOVES getting DNF notifications, this led to him not doing maintenance and then just archiving his caches and placing a new one very close to were the old one was. On more than one occasion, I have gone after one of his caches that was placed by an old one, and went over and get a free container since he didnt retrieve the old one he archived.

Dean if you want people in the area to like getting your caches again, go back to the old way. If you want to get the DNF notifications still make them HARD as hell but make sure they are there.

I stopped looking for your stuff shortly after you told me how much you like getting the DNF’s, until then I had put up with caches missing half the time, the containers that werent water proof and the logs were always wet, the post it notes for logs which are a disaster after a short ammount of time, and walking away from i don’t even know how many caches because they were in questionable locations, private property or just places that made me feel uncomfortable looking in.

How can I recommend a cache to someone if I dont know if its still there or if its been archived and replaced by something else.

I have found great caches by Dean, but once his attitude from wanting people to collect smiles turned to having them rather get frowny faces, I stopped lookign for his stuff also.

The other and probably even worse part about this style of hiding is new people to this sport see his hundreds of caches in bad containers, not maintained, and in questionable locations and adopt the same type of caching.

Dean place tons of caches like you used to but be an inspiration to the area, not someone who people put in gsak scripts to avoid. I liked your old caches, I can not say I enjoy your new ones at all.

If you archive everything I can’t say I will be sad, but I would rather have lots of findable maintained caches in the area, that follow the placement rules from groundspeak.

I’m not the greatest at writing but TheBalks said it real well. We play to have fun and this takes the fun out of it. Lots of times when we go out caching we just follow the gps to the next nearest unfound cache and end up where we may! Other times we do have set destinations in mind but we enjoy caching to much to let this spoil our fun so our decision is to use discretion when we choose which caches to seek. I am sad to say this is the first time since we started caching that we have made the choice to avoid certain caches.

Todd300: Don’t let this stop you from caching in the area. We do have many good and well maintained hides in the area.

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Has anyone on here ever run into a cache hider that has admitted to moving the cache location around to different spots on the final because of cheating or an experiment? When I say cheating, I am referring to how one may call a previous finder and ask for a clue. A phone a friend if you will.

Issue 2 is that someone placed a replacement log for him. From what I understand, he placed two “containers”. One had a log in a baggie behind it and another didn’t. So he had a decoy per se. The decoy was not listed or marked as a decoy in any way. One finder thought this was the cache and then placed a log there thinking that they were doing the CO a favor by replacing a missing log sheet. He then got offended when someone added a log sheet because they didnt sign the correct one, however, the decoy was not marked as previously stated.

From previous experience with this co I would say moving caches after someone finds them is a very common practice. This co has lots of placed caches but is lacking alot on the maintenance end so it is not uncommon to find logs that are full, wet or missing altogether. For that matter it is not uncommon to find the container itself missing. We have replaced many logs and containers for said co.

Everyone plays their own game and challenges themselves in whatever way is suitable to them. I guess I could “whine” on longer but the best solution is to just use discretion when deciding what caches to search for.

Agree with the above statement and we play to have fun and this incident took all the fun out of it. So in the future we will use discretion when we choose which caches to seek rather then let this incident spoil caching for us.

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Whoo hoo! It took me a while but I finally figured out the problem. It has nothing to do with the number of waypoints I am trying to download. There was one particular cache in the file that caused the error message. That cache was http://coord.info/GC3B219 Once I deleted that file from GSAK everything worked fine. This is because the file name is not understood by the Nuvi so to include that file in my download I must rename the cache something else before I export it to the nuvi. So glad this issue is finally resolved [:)]

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GetMeOutdoors wrote:
Replace the ScaleChange function with this code. (In Firefox, after you have the regular script installed, click the greasemonkey down arrow and select “Manage User Scripts”. Right click “Geocaching.com – Image map scale” entry and select Edit.)

Code:

function ScaleChange() {
var feetperpixel = 513592.6516 * Math.cos(MapSettings.Map.getCenter().lat*(Math.PI/180)) / Math.pow(2,MapSettings.Map._zoom);
var milesperpixel = 97.27133 * Math.cos(MapSettings.Map.getCenter().lat*(Math.PI/180)) / Math.pow(2,MapSettings.Map._zoom);
if (Aprox(feetperpixel) >= 5280) {
document.getElementById(‘scaletext’).innerHTML = Aprox(milesperpixel) + ” mi” ;
$(“#scale”).width(Math.round(Aprox(milesperpixel)/milesperpixel)+4);
}
else {
document.getElementById(‘scaletext’).innerHTML = Aprox(feetperpixel) + ” ft”;
$(“#scale”).width(Math.round(Aprox(feetperpixel)/feetperpixel)+4);
}
}

Optional: I wanted the scale to be wider. It seemed way to small to get a real idea of how far away something was. If you want a wider scale as well, change the line in the Approx() funciton that says :

Code:
number = number*90;

to

Code:
number = number*200;

or whatever multiplier you want.

Save the script and refresh the map page.

That is totally awesome. Thank you!!

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You could try loading from the GPS drop down on GSAK and not use a macro at all. There’s a “setup” option where you select the unit you are using. If your particular Nuvi isn’t listed, there is a “generic” choice which works with ours.

Tried that and couldn’t get it to work at all. It said the caches were loaded but could not find them anywhere in the Nuvi.

I have been experimenting with it and now I can get it to work at least part time! Haven’t experimented enough yet but I’m thinking it might possibly have something to do with the number of waypoints that are loaded. Still trying to problem solve the issue.[/quote]

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Congrats on the new addition 😀

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try plugging your cord into your computer, then hold the power button on your gps and plug the cord into your gps. When you plug it in to the gps release the power button on your gps. This should cause the computer to force find your unit.

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Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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I’d like to add my thanks for the great job our reviewers do. 😀

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I didn’t know there was one either. I am also downloading it. Not sure when I will get an opportunity to check it out but I want to be prepared!!!

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Thanks For The Very Hard To Find Cache…….

That’s what I thought but after that I’m lost

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Here’s the latest that I got:

TFTVHTFCWWOATSC

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