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 Guest Author: Rick Sylvia “Base, this is team Bravo. We have arrived at our task location, have a ‘ find’ and are awaiting further instructions”. “Bravo, this is Base. Roger the find, stand by for new coordinates” Admittedly, the radio conversation above isn’t between Geocachers. Not exactly, anyway. But it could be between members of a Wilderness Search and Rescue team on a navigation and clue awareness training exercise. Beyond that difference, though, the SAR training exercise [...] 
Author: Heather Bayer – posted by BillNPegz Geocaching crazy – join the hunt! I’m a self-confessed technophobe. I have never sent a text message or taken a photo with a cell phone; played a video game or watched a movie on a personal DVD player. In fact, I never quite mastered working the video machine [...]  Image via Wikipedia Author: Tonia Jordan It all started on May 2, 2000 with the removal of selective availability by the White House. (Selective Availability is the intentional modification of GPS signal to degrade accuracy of readings) At that moment, the GPS receiver became 10 times more accurate. GPS, or Global Positioning System is a navigational system which operates through the use of twenty-four satellites positioned around the globe in low Earth orbit. These satellites were [...]  By: Tessa Green To make absolutely sure that every geocache hunt is thoroughly fabulous and successful, your GPS must have the ability to do the following: It must find it’s position quickly and easily. When you switch on, the gps looks around, finds four or more positioning satellites and works out how far away they are. Using this information, it works out its own location. That’s a lot to do. And some GPS do [...]  I know from asking my friends and family that there are lots of people out there that really have no idea what geocaching is. But I also know that once they hear about it they all want to give it a try. I didn’t come by my interest personally, I happen to be married to a man bitten by the geocaching bug. He was much more into it than I planned to be, but [...] |
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