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Geocaching – A Beginner’s Guide

billnpegz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:42 +0000

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 [...]

Geocaching – The Technology Behind "The Hi-Tech Treasure Hunt"

billnpegz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:37:00 +0000

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 [...]

For The Best Geocaching GPS Here’s What To Look For

billnpegz — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:00:49 +0000

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 [...]

The Bomb Squad and Geocaching???

billnpegz — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:56:39 +0000

Today (12/23/08) in Waynesboro, PA another geocache was interpreted by the local authorities to be a device of unknown origin and potentially dangerous. You can read the article here… They ultimately ended up blowing it up and are now searching for the person that placed it.

In this day and age where you just can’t be too careful I can fully understand individuals (ie. muggles) being overly cautious when they see a stranger hide something [...]

Is Geocaching a Sport? Hobby? or Game?

billnpegz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:13:26 +0000

When I started thegeocacher.com I wondered where it should be placed in terms of categorization. I think we could fairly place it into categories with sports, hobbies, or games. There are quite a few more categories you could use to describe geocaching, but ultimately I thought those 3 were the most all encompassing.

Using the technology at hand, I jumped onto Wikipedia to see if I could gather some further information and perhaps fine tune [...]