THE ABOVE COORDINATES ARE FAKE!
Ulysses T. Marconi, known as “Useless” to his friends, was not related to the inventor of the wireless but he did get a degree in electrical engineering and go into the field of electronics. Although his name initially wasn’t as well known as Omar Biddle’s, the two of them did collaborate on several projects which produced many patents.
One project they worked on in 1993 involved designing a decoder board for the L1 signals received from the GPS satellite system. Although somewhat primitive by today’s standards, the algorithm they used was a breakthrough at the time allowing much faster satellite lock than was possible until then. Using stock RAM memory made by Hitachi, a custom Zilog LSI processor, and some off-the-shelf ICs to process the signals received by the Motorola receiver board, they made a usable portable GPS system for the military. However, the complete GPS unit was the size of a lunchbox and only had a 4 line by 24 character alpha-numeric display for the readout.
I collect strange and unusual electronic devices and was lucky enough to buy two of these units through a DOD surplus sale. Because it may still be considered classified I cannot show you the entire board but I absolutely have to show you a small section of the REV-2 board containing the processor and memory used and I hope you find it as interesting as I do. “Useless” had a major roll in this revision while Omar was the influence for the REV-1 board (which I may show you later).
Oh, I almost forgot, the cache is not at the above coordinates (although it is a good place for fast food), but is about 0.5 miles from these coordinates. The cache is a magnetic key holder with a logsheet, a stubby pen, and an equally short pencil inside. You can park within a few feet of the cache if there are no cars there, and actually sit in your car to sign the log. There is a high muggle factor so please use stealth and put the container back in the exact position so it can’t be seen from either side. And one last thing, it isn’t in anything electrical or any lamp post (although it might be “right” next to one) so don’t mess with any you may find.
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