GeoGearHeads; The weekly show for Geocaching and Location-Based Gaming

For the three hundred seventh edition of the GeoGearHeads afishoutawater and DarrylW4 talked about Geocaching trackables. First, they read and discussed TheWoodenRadio's e-mail about batteries (a follow up to last week's show). L&N Railroad e-mail about his dislike for trackable thanks to the issues with the ones he's released. Much of the discussion was about the Trackable collections, how to use it, and how confusing it can be. They also talked about several tools for those looking to do bulk discoveries – Project-GC, LogThemAll, TBScan, and Geooh! Live. DarrylW4 also mentioned the Google Sheet of trackables he shared on GeoGearHeads, The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

ChrisOfTheNorthWest and DarrylW4 go back to the subject of batteries for the three hundred sixth edition of the GeoGearHeads. (Check Beta.01, Beta.02, and 116 for the previous shows.) The battery types discussed were; Disposable AA/AAA Heavy Duty Alkaline Lithium Rechargable AA/AAA NiCd (nickel-cadmium) NiMH (nickel-metal hydride) LSD NiMH (low self-discharge nickel-metal hydride) Mobile Devices/External Power LiOn (lithium-ion) LiPo (lithium-ion polymer) Lead-Acid Congratulations to laantje for winning the drawing for the Captain Rodney's trackable. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

ChrisOfTheNorthWest, DarrylW4, Headhardhat, and LANMonkey team up to tackle a pile of feedback for the three hundred fifth edition of the GeoGearHeads. L&N Railroad had feedback on the Zombie cache discussion and on using an extra GPSR to hold just the caches you really want to visit on a trip. JRandJuju sent audio feedback about the BRouter Offline Navigation app which works with c:geo. We also heard from day1976 about the launch of a new Geocaching museum. hidegoseek shared some information from Nylimb (referencing binomial proportion confidence interval) which helped him understand the Lower Willson Scores mentioned in 285. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

For the three hundred fourth edition of the GeoGearHeads Rock Chalk helps us out on a few points in the updated guidelines. Tick_Magnet also e-mailed about the difficulty and terrain ratings. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

Monkeybrad talks about traveling and Geocaching for work on the three hundred third edition of the GeoGearHeads. His family business (Captain Rodney's) ran a trackable promotion this year, and as part of that he, his brother, and his father got to geocache, travel, and attend events in 48 states. Rock Chalk e-mailed about a new basic solution checker for Mystery Geoaches included in the new release. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

We heard about the Traipse app for the three hundred second edition of the GeoGearHeads. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

The crew from "Caching in the NorthWest" takes over for the three hundred first edition of the GeoGearHeads. First they had to clean house a little since simrebel and ACME WildCachers e-mailed about the Project-GC Map Compare tool to find archived geocaches as requested in last week's podcast. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

For the three hundredth edition of the GeoGearHeads we have ChrisOfTheNorthWest, DarrylW4, LANMonkey, Oh Beep!, and Sherminator18 run through a ton of fellow GeoGearHeads feedback. cliqS opened with feedback about the battery discussion from GGH299. He likes using a case to tell if the battery is fresh or not. MikeD shared the way to enable screen lock on the Garmin OR650/750 units. JR and Juju shared a tip about FTF watchlists. Scrapcat shared a problem about the EXIF data in log images and asked for advice on removing the location data from photos. billy robson ask about finding zombie caches. pinkunicorn was looking for a way to put together lists of challenge cache required caches. Then K8Ydd's question about trackable logging looks to be best solved through GSAK. Sherminator18 recorded audio about Project-gc Event Notifiers. Last up in this show was Subwaymark talking about SideTracked Series and Podcacher Show 604.0: The SideTracked Geocache Series. Congratulations to billy robson, K8Ydd, L&N Railroad, Sherminator18, and Simrebel for winning the Magic: The Gathering traveller tags! The bonus show can be found on Patreon for free. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

For the two hundred ninety-nineth edition of the GeoGearHeads DarrylW4, LANMonkey, and Jennifer of teamajk talk again about moving from the GPSR to the Smartphone as the primary Geocaching device. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]

Limax is back for the two hundred ninety-eighth edition of the GeoGearHeads to give us a little more very technical info about the GPS signal. The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS Stitcher Email: [email protected]