[GeoStL] Interesting KC Trip
- From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:37:34 -0500
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Headed out to KC on Friday with about 500 caches loaded, maps printed, GPX
files sitting on the PDA and everything was running smoothly. I have never
had a problem with any of this setup. As a precaution against PDA
failures, I installed GPX Sonar on the storage card. It has been so stable
for so long that a while back I deleted Cache Dragon and GPX View off the
PDA to clear up space.
Usually before leaving I make a backup of the PDA to the storage card just
in case something should go wrong.
We stopped to find a cache along the way on Friday and all was well. I
realized that i didn't make my backup so I started one when we got back to
the car. 20 minutes later I checked the PDA and it was hung doing the
backup and had quit responding. Not to worry, soft reboot and all will be
well. Or so it seemed.
On rebooting everything worked just fine. Mapopolus was happily running
maps so I decided to go ahead and fire up GPX Sonar... " 'GPX Sonar' is not
a valid PPC Program" it said. Oh heck!! (not exactly in those
words). Shut down, reboot.... same thing. Navigate to the folder, start
from there... same thing.. "Oh heck!!"
Not to worry, I have a backup from the last KC Trip.... restored the
backup.... Same thing.. At this point, things were not looking good. I
just remembered, the "Sonar" is stored on the memory card and is not
backed-up each time. Only the programs in main memory is backed up.. BUT
WAIT, My old copy of GPX VIEW should be there...... Oh HECK, I took it off
BEFORE I made the B/U for the last KC trip. Cache Dragon was not there as
well. By this time we were nearly to KC with lots of waypoints and no sheets.
BUT WAIT.... one last failsafe and redundant emergency
system. http://wap.geocaching.com will work from the phone!! [B]It is
slow as the dickens,[/B] I loose all the sorting and functionality of Sonar
but, I can look up and see the cache pages. :-) (Running that interface
from the desktop is lighting fast as it has minimal text and no graphics)
So, we got up Saturday and proceeded to skip around and see the sights and
find whatever looked good near wherever we were. We were able to squeak
out 22 (i think) using this "last resort" system. I cant tell you where we
were but we found out way there and back without incident. I really like
camping in Flemming Park. It has a very nice campground. Sunday morning
(today) we were treated with the sights and sounds of aviation history as
the 1929 Ford Tri-motor flew overhead all morning long. What a sight to
behold. For me, that in itself made the trip worthwhile.
I hope I don't need to rely on the phone interface much but it is nice to
know that it does work.
Glenn
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Glenn
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