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Originally posted by Snoshu:
Take a look at “The Selector” on the Texas Geocaching Association’s page….
Wow!! That sure goes in the bookmark! Thanks!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaHeh heh, somebody else stuck indoors today! Yeah, it went down around lunch time. I’ve been cruising the message boards. Hate it when I get a hyperlink and get that not found message.
If you want to get to the message board… http://ubbx.groundspeak.com I think.
[This message has been edited by sbukosky (edited 06-08-2003).]
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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
Is there something I’m missing here? Is there a way to do these searches?
Sure, I do them all the time. All you do is tap the menu or the lower left hand icon, not the lower right hand one, then FIND and then scribble the search for and up it pops, albiet in a bit of a while if it is way down on the list.
I was in Oshkosh the other day and wanted to look up the one at the EAA. All I did was tap on the menu, FIND and put in eaa and it popped up after 1071 some pages.
But yes, I usually find a waypoint on the GPS and then do a FIND with the waypoint and that pops up rather quickly as it doesn’t have to go through the long descriptions for a word.
This is why I can’t see the need for all the other programs.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI like the idea. I think it is something that geocaching.com needs to incorporate along with other ”friendly” items. The list could include, wheelchair friendly, dog friendly and so on. Such has been suggested in the past but never acted upon. Until that time, I think yours is a good idea for all who can find the code and know how to implement it.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaYou’re doing what I do! I don’t understand the need for spinner, plucker, doiner or whatever. When the new file gets emailed to me, I just click on the file and do a save as and usually the last place I saved it pops up and asks if I want to replace the file. You can do the same for the waypoint file but I use a subdirectory for no particular reason. Do a hotsync and you are up to date!
I do a daily file transfer and have four files sent my way. One for the local, like you have, another for Illinois only but closest to my house and the same for Madison. Madison overlaps a lot but it helps when I go to the area. I have another one that has ALL the caches in a 100 mile radius just so I have past ones on record in the PDA just in case I have reason to check one out while on the road.
I will usually only upload the local “new” caches to keep the GPS clutter to a minimum. Enjoy!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI don’t think it was a bad article. It is useful in showing the fears that land managers have. Its been mentioned before and I see it in this article, they don’t want an area trampled and torn up. I think it is a little unfounded. Take a look at Scarabadae… in Brookfield. I don’t think any cache area has been as turned over as that place. Yet, there is no sign of such activity now. A path one year can be reclaimed by nature the next. This is where I tend to agree with the one year limit, sometimes mentioned, for the life of some caches. I’m intrigued with taking an area and trying new ideas by retiring old ones. It also has the advantage of giving hunters a new cache to search and can take hunters to other sections of an area.
Another thing I noticed in the article is the perception of who geocaches. While I too, am an often a solitary team, I like the impression that geocaching is a family activity. I think pictures conveying this can be used to sway opinion of the hobby more favorably. I particularly like the comment that parks should accommodate changing uses of them by people. All in all, some useful material for us to think about.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaYou know you have it bad when you have some place to go and you check to see if there is a cache near-by!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI have two basic steps. I have the custom searches made by geocaching.com which hotsync right to my PDA. That’s all for the cache pages. In the same mailing, I also get the EasyGPS waypoints for the same caches and those load into my GPS. Now I’m ready to go!
If I want to get further detail, I’ll then load those waypoints into Mapsource so I can see the general lay of them. If I really want to get prepared, I’ll then load the waypoints into USAphotomaps. Now I can see the actual land where the waypoints are! I’ll sometimes select the place I want to park and enter that into the GPS so I can have the Garmin V take me directly there rather than spend time deciding where to park. I can also see creeks and other obstructions. I have actually used it to make a route that I load into the GPS and follow that right up to the cache!
They say the journey is often better than the destination. I agree. I consider the homework to be part of the journey. There are lots of flowers to smell on the way to the cache!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI was hiking around Paradise Springs yesterday and the place was lousy with them. I thought I got all of them off and got the clothes in the wash. Tonight I went for a motorcycle ride through Eagle and south of Whitewater. Never got off the bike. Got back here and while sitting at the computer, feel something crawling up my leg! Another darned wood tick! Fortunately none of them chewed in the skin. Must be that Hartz collar doing its job.
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Originally posted by MR Andersen:
I was looking at mapsource tonight and I couldn’t figure out how to project waypoints on it. Could you post a clue on how to do it in mapsource? Thanks
What I do is have the starting waypoint showing on the screen. Then I click on the ruler, or distance icon, and move the cursor on the starting waypoint until it highlights. Click on the mouse and now you are measuring distance from that waypoint. On the bottom of the screen it shows the distance,bearing and coordinates from the starting waypoint. So, if it want to project a waypoint of 27 degrees and 63 meters, I just change prefrences from statute to meters and now as I move the ruler around, it will show the distance and direction and what we are looking for, the coordinates of the projection.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaIn order to use a duplex repeater, the GMRS radio must have a frequency offset function to it. It would transmit on one frequency and receive on another. Duplexing repeaters listen on the transmit frequency and tranmit at the same time on the offset frequency. To accomplish this, devices called cavity duplexers are used which are very narrow bandpass filters which allow all this to happen without the transmitting power getting into the receiver and destroying it. I’m not aware of any portable repeaters due to the time neaded to tune things up. I have seen some Radio Shack simplex repeaters on ebay that seem to work with any radio provided the radio has the approprate jacks. They seem to be different that what we’ve used at the WGA functions.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI had the need to waypoint project on Jeff’s ”Wizard’s Tower”. I had only my eMap then and it couldn’t do that. I ended up coming home and doing it on Mapsource. I’ll have to try SBTT’s method.
Steve Bukosky
Waukeshaquote:
Originally posted by CacheCows:
I’ve toyed with purchasing GMRS, but havn’t yet, mostly because of the $75 liscensing fee…
Sounds like the FCC has finally gotten things back to where they can charge for license fees. There was some legal challenge about their fees and for years, any radio license application was fee free.
I don’t know if any are around now, but when the GMRS was created, it was allowed to have repeaters. Regular duplexing kind, not the simplex that we use on the FRS. That would really help with range if one were in the area and if it were not a closed repeater.
Steve Bukosky
Waukeshaquote:
Originally posted by Snoshu:
I think what you’re looking for is at..http://www.sheps.clara.net/SSVersions.html
Looks interesting and along the lines of what I’m looking for. I downloaded it and will check it out further. Thanks!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaFor those not familiar, waypoint projection is creating a new waypoint from where you are currently located by telling your GPS to create a waypoint, for example, 300 meters away at a bearing of 60 degrees.
I found shareware for the PDA to do this but it costs $10. I’d think it could be created on a spread sheet. There is a free program to do this for your Windows computer from Mentor Software, called Forward/Inverse. You should be able to find it doing a Google search.
I know there are other ways of getting around not having waypoint projection. Perhaps I’ll make the cache and let everyone use their creativity to work the projection.
Steve Bukosky
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