Old Time Radio Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

smarple: This box has been found only once in almost 3 years so I have retrieved it from under accumulated ditritus in the old hollow tree and am archiving it. Perhaps it will crop up again somewhere...

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Hidden : 2/6/2007
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is NOT located at the above coordinates. Those coordinates are for parking.


The DRHT is PRIVATE property and users MUST have a permit.

Said permit may be obtained by visiting the DRHT web site at www.friendsdrht.org

Back when the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail was a real railroad, folks spent their evenings together as a family listening to the radio rather than looking for what new Geocaches have popped up nearby or trying to solve silly puzzles. This radio-themed cache can be found along the DRHT near Dahlgren. The cache coordinates can be determined by answering the following questions and then tranferring the numbers corresponding to each letter to the coded coordinates below.

- In what year did Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve leave the Gildersleeve Girdle Works? - 19AB
- In what year did the final episode of Dimension X air? - 19CD
- In what year was the character "Boston Blackie", star of a short-lived radio series in 1944, created by Jack Boyle? - 19EF
- For how many years was "Hen-reeeeeeee! Henry Al-drich" heard on CBS radio (rounded to the nearest whole number)? - G
- In what year did Flashgun Casey, eventual star of the 1943 radio drama "Casey, Crime Photographer", make his debut in short stories and novels? - 19HI
- How many 15-minute daily broadcasts of Fibber McGee and Molly were there? - JKL
- In what year did Jack Webb star as Pete Kelly on NBC? - 19MN
- The actor who played Marcus Welby previously starred in a radio drama as Jim Anderson. In what year did that program hit the airwaves? - 19PQ
- In what year did Ozzie Nelson take over Red Skelton's radio time slot? - 19RS

North H (B+K) Degrees, GN.(L-J)(R+S)(F-E) Minutes and West LK Degrees, (M-C)I.NM(A-P) Minutes

Cache is an ammo can. Based on user inputs, Please modify your answer above as follows ==> Add 0.009 to the latitude value and 0.006 to the longitude (more west). They should get you closer than the raw coordinates do. Original contents are a number of CDs with recordings of some of the referenced radio programs. Please take one home and give a listen.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.




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NOTE FROM REVIEWER: On 1/14/11 Groundspeak determined that the permit system used for this cache is no longer allowed, as the Guidelines do not allow for a collection of personal information. As this cache was published in good faith, it will be allowed to stand, grandfathered, but new caches which require the permit will not be published.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

rnfl

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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