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Found this calculator that might help:
http://www.csgnetwork.com/gpsdistcalc.html
In using 1 degree=so many feet or whatever, the latitude shouldn’t matter where you are, but the longitude equivalencies depend on your latitude (think: how far between meridians at the equator compared to at the poles).
Someone with more technical knowledge, feel free to jump in.
@hogrod wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
We have the yellow eTrex H that we’ve been using since October, but there is no downloading capability for that (we use the old finger exercise regimen).
You can buy a cable for that yellow etrex, just make sure your PC has a serial port.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=654
You can also buy a Serial to USB adapter if you pc doesn’t have a serial port, you can find these much cheaper if you don’t buy from garmin.
That’s nice to know. Think we have just USB ports, and it’s a Mac. I know, there is now Mac-capability for geocaching, but we’re just taking things slowly right now. May have to investigate this if we pick up the pace and start traveling outside our comfort zone as the weather improves.
@Gram&Gramps wrote:
BTW, this was being used in an educational setting. This was an end-of-the-quarter minicourse at the middle school where I teach.
Middle school kids–no need to say more. They’ll fight over a #2 pencil.
We have the yellow eTrex H that we’ve been using since October, but there is no downloading capability for that (we use the old finger exercise regimen). Which ones are marked down to $79? Can it download waypoints?
Maybe get that one for the kids (loved the fighting story–“educational purposes”) and get the one you want for yourself (or get the old standby fixed).
We live in Adams. Friendship is on the other side of North Street. Adams-Friendship, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Champaign-Urbana…you get the picture.
Never heard of the Vacationaire Campers, but we’ve lived here only since 1975 (and at that time we WERE in Friendship, because their rural route is three times as big as Adams’).
Yes, we have two different post offices, two different zip codes, and only 2500 people in the two municipalities.
Go figure.
Hey, Team Honeybunnies–congrats!
We see your logs everywhere we cache and wonder, “How do they do all that?!” 6000–WHEW!
Ooo-oohh…and we were just thinking of putting an uncammoed peanut butter jar in an old log out for our first cache. Well, back to the drawing board. Too bad when we went digital we got rid of all the old film canisters.
Thanks for putting out all your caches, even though we haven’t run across one yet. Nice to know they’re out there.
The cache by New Lisbon is “New Lisbon Indian Mounds” (GCJ3M4), which we did at Thanksgiving with my aunt (now ninety) and uncle (eighty-eight)–they have their own “handle” now, a testimony that caching is ageless!
There is also one near Plainfield that we haven’t done–“Whistler Mounds” (GC80D8).
I had trouble last night just wanting to get on geocaching.com for some “cruising”, so I came to the WGA site instead. Always action here! Thought the slowness was just part of our usual dial-up (can’t sit there forever for a site to come up).
Anyway, just finished logging a bunch of stuff tonight without any problem–even uploaded some photos. It always takes me forever to record logs because I write loooooong ones.
We like:
It’s an astronomy-related site that we use to find times when we can view the international space station and the space shuttle (when it is in orbit) when they go over.
We don’t register there, just plug in our location, and out pops a schedule of viewing times and where to look. Sometimes the ISS goes over in the early morning (just before sun-up) and at other times it’s right after sundown. Sometimes there are viewing gaps of several days when the orbits aren’t over our area.
Right now in central Wisconsin we are entering a period of evening viewings.
Check it out and look up instead of “in an old log” or “at the base of a tree”!
We did the “Crossroads” cache at the wayside at the Highway 21/13 intersection near us today, but there are so many more we haven’t done that are close to us.
We started caching in mid-October and are looking forward to doing so many more of these when the snow melts and the waysides open up with places to park. It would be a shame to see a viable place for caches disappear.
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