APRS Traditional Cache
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If this road is muddy or snowy DON'T go unless you have a REAL 4x4. SUV's will sink, never to return. Oil field traffic is thick here, take your AAA card because they won't stop to pull you out. You may need to pass the cache and turn around 1/2 mile or so up the road. OR stop at the towers south of the cache and walk. You're going to the smallest building of the bunch. Cache is small, don't forget your pencil. You might see some wildlife. There are Naugas here. Be carefull, they bite.
This use to be my radio site. Built in about 1998, it was one of the first APRS digipeaters in the world and was the first using solar power as it's only source of power. APRS = Automatic Position Reporting System. My first mobile system consisted of a GPS connected terminal node controller which translated the GPS output to a digital signal which then transmitted the signal via 2 meter ham radio. The signal was then recieved by another APRS digipeter which I installed on R-Hill south of Rawlins. The signal was relayed to my house where it was recieved and sent out over the Internet. Anyone in direct line to the radio signals could recieve the signals and display my position on a map on their computer. Anyone with APRS on their home computer could see my position on their map. APRS is still popular and in use today by many ham radio operators. To me, it was just a fun toy. Eventually I had most of I-80 covered but became bored with the system. I changed the callsign from mine (KJ7AZ) to a friends (N7ZEF) about two years ago. Geocaching and flying model airplanes is sooooo much more fun, in that order.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gurer'f ab cbjre urer. Ivfvoyr. Lbh qba'g arrq gb pebff gur srapr.
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