Geocaching General
Real time tracking is a fun way to keep track of your hunts. Using amateur radio and a GPS you are able to transmit your location all over the world. APRS is a small part of ham radio, that has some great features the could be used in geocaching. One feature is the emergency beacon, [...]
Wanted to make sure everyone knows about the additional waypoints feature on your cache pages. Having waypoints for your puzzles/multis helps you keep track of the coordinates (without using slips of paper or saving them in your GPS only to accidentally delete them) and also helps Quiggle review your caches quicker since he has to [...]
This was in today’s Washington Post. Enjoy. Here’s the Cache: High-Tech Devices Help Locate Simple Treasures Tuesday, July 18, 2006; Page C12 Sprinting through the woods, Andrew and Sarah Hickey kept their eyes open for thorn bushes, spider webs, animals and hidden treasure.
A Virginia family stopped in Shippensburg Friday to find a tiny object left by a stranger in a tree. The youngsters used a portable global positioning device – a radio-like object slightly larger than a cell phone – to communicate with a satellite to locate a film canister in a tree in a public place [...]
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