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Ya know, if you’re getting blamed anyway, maybe you should start a gang…
OK, Marc, I have it translated. (My mind must be sick!) Let me know if you want my to send you the answer. It starts with “Hello. I am a elite hacker who hid a geocache. Do you have the mad skills to find it ?????(about 100 questionmarks, the dumber the writer is, the more punctuation they use) To find it, go to the following coords:”
It ends with “Feel free to log your find in leetspeak. Woot! Good luck noobs!”
I will email you the middle if you like. Almost all the patterns in the coords are shown in the two sections I translated for you.
I’ll try it tonight. Thanks!
Interesting way to get a lot of views, Ken. You even got me to look and I don’t even collect Geocoins.
I’m not sure there is value in using this “cable” for the transfer. For everything I use for Geocaching, it is easy enough to copy the files to a flashdrive and then reinstall in the new PC. Plus, the flashdrive can be used for many thing besides Geocaching.
@Mathman wrote:
What does Beer taste like??? Please don’t say chicken.
Careful, there, Mathman. Your liable to be exiled from the state.
03/13/2007 at 3:17 am in reply to: Coastiegirl04 Smashes through the waves on her quest for 700 #1871260Woohoo! Great job! (But whats this about BBQ sauce on cookies? Never tried that…. lets see….cookies are good…..BBQ sauce is good….maybe….)
Sign me up please!
You’re on the right track, Marc.
Have one person get the master PQ. This should be the person with the most finds in the area in question. The other people all get My Finds PQ and send them to the “master”.
Next, load all the my finds PQs into a second database.
Next, in the master database, clear all the checkboxes. Now, copy the second database into the master database, setting the options to ONLY FLAG caches already in the database and IGNORE caches not already in the database.
Now, filter on user flag not set.
Done! Now export a GPX file of the filter and send it to the others on the team. (or don’t send it to them and tell them to follow you to the cache 😀 )
Can’t help on the Dogs attribute, but for the late queries, there is a trick you can do.
Understand that at Midnight Pacific Time, all the queries due for the specific day get queued up in order of when the they were last generated (the ones generated most recently are at the back of the line). If someone requests a new or existing query during the day, it will “jump the line” as if the place where it would have gone had it been requested at Midnight. This means that a NEW query will be processed immediately. So the trick is to always be requesting a new query or at least one that hasn’t been run in a while if you want it right away. So, when you want the information, rather than waiting for your scheduled query to run, just create a new query for “today”, then delete it as soon as it runs. You can still keep the scheduled queries for regular updates, but if you want something right away, you have to create it right before you need it.
My technique is slightly different. I usually don’t care when I get my PQs, but for those times when I do, I keep a second backup copy that is rarely run. When I need one quickly, I just activate the backup and it comes right away.
Marc is right, plus since this is for an event, you probably want to make the puzzle as accessible as possible. For me, this means that you want to do a field puzzle, where you have your finders visit some points of interest in the area to “build” a coordinate from information to be found at the sites. This type of cache is essentially an easy multi, as your finders get to visit multiple locations without the intimidation of a true multi.
Also, don’t think that you have to find the exact numbers at your locations. Just use simple math to get your coordinate. Example:
The North coordinates are 44 55.ABC where ABC is the year Joe Schmoe was born minus 1444.
Should you later determine you need to change the coordinate slightly, just change 1444 to the correct number.
@One Paddle Short wrote:
Some folks will say things like “you’ll know who has an electronic compass because they’ll be turning circles calibrating the thing”. You don’t have to turn circles- only the GPSr does. Set it in your palm, turn it two times around- you’re good to go. Mine doesn’t seem to need calibration very often either.
I tried OPS’s technique, but the hair on my palms kepts getting snagged in the GPS. 😳
And here is a link to the list (Thanks, John!!)
http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=c9e15af5-37a9-4c4f-b09e-2083dc0dbb49
Way to go, guys! You even found one of my caches along the way.
See, if you had the headband and bowie knife, no one would have thought twice about you being there! No caching out of uniform!
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