Please note that the nano at the IP is not inside the hole where
the electric wires are. DO NOT REACH IN
THERE – THE HINT MEANS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY. The
nano is, in fact, in plain sight!!
The objective of this challenge is to find a cache in each
3-degree sector from your chosen base coordinates
all around the compass.
That's 120 caches, one each in the following angular intervals
(degrees):
- 0°–3°
- 3°–6°
- 6°–9°
- ..., etc, etc, etc, ...
- 354°–357°
- 357°–360° = 0° (again)
Requirements:
- Select a point to be the center of your circle. This
does not need to be (nor should it be) your home coordinates.
(It is both a violation of the terms of service for me to ask it
and just an unwise idea to publish publicly your personal
information.) Might I recommend your caching centroid?
- Find a cache in each three-degree sector from your chosen
coordinates all around the compass.
- The honor system mostly applies. However, you should publish
your chosen coordinates as well as that you develop a bookmark list
or offer some semblance of proof. There are many available
tools available on the website to verify your bearings. I have even
made (I mean, adapted) a .gsk macro (in HTML/SQL) which is
available (just email me); it will generate an HTML/SQL table that
shows your progress. Note: while I personally adapted and tested
this GSAK macro (from the Well Travelled macro) and I have
personally hosted it on my site, you should always download any
file at your own risk. (Also, to make it work using GSAK, set
whatever coordinates you want as your center coordinates for the
database, then install and run the macro. If you want to try new
chosen coordinates, simply select new center coordinates for the
database and run the macro again.)
- It is preferred that you use true north for the purposes of
this cache (as magnetic north offsets vary with location). However,
a suppose that an argument could be made and a tool found which
instead uses magnetic bearings. Should this be the case, please
indicate the magnetic declination of the coordinates that you've
chosen as your center AND help educate us by explaining in brief
how you calculated your own verifications.
- Log the find on-line after the physical container is found
and the logsheet inside signed. (You may physically find the
final and sign its log before completing the challenge
online.)
Clarifications:
- The posted coordinates are the actual coordinates for the
cache.
- Generally accepted rules, guidelines and conditions for logging
a cache find apply. These must be bona fide caches listed on
Geocaching.com that you have personally (physically) found and
logged.
- All cache types count as finds except for locationless caches.
Note: "attended" and "webcam photo taken" will be considered
equivalent to cache "found". (A word of caution: if you have found
a grandfathered-type moving cache, it might be moved out of the
sector that you think it's in.)
- For the purposes of this challenge, the coordinates listed on
the cache page will determine which sector interval that puzzle
caches and multi caches are located in, not the coordinates of the
actual physical cache.
- The boundary of each three-degree sector in the challenge is
determined by the angle from your chosen coordinates as determined
by the GC.com website, or other Geocaching .gpx and SQL database
manipulation tools.
- While you may have others with you when you find the final
cache, only those who have fulfilled ALL criteria for this cache
will be allowed to log it as a find on-line. Find logs by other
cachers will be deleted. However, please feel free to sign the
log before you complete your challenge
- The terrain rating on this cache page refers to the terrain of
the final cache. (The actual difficulty of the final is much closer
to 2.5, but the difficulty of the task is a 5 for sure.)
- Remember that this is a game and is supposed to be fun!
- Unlike the Well-Travelled Cacher, which uses your home
coordinates, I have asked you to choose coordinates of your
own liking for purposes of this cache. You need not choose your
home coordinates to qualify for this cache; you may have more
success in choosing other coordinates, especially for those of you
who live close to a large body of water. Whatever you pick as your
coordinates, you do need to post your choice for verification
purposes.
- Note: I reserve the privilege to log this cache as a find
myself BUT ONLY UNDER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: that
although I already qualify for this cache at the time of
publication, I would only use cache finds after the
publication of the cache as qualifying caches (that is, to complete
the challenge another time in full – my third complete cycle)
AND that I would make arrangements with another cacher to
temporarily and informally "adopt" the cache, have posted that it
will be moved on a specific date for me to actually achieve the act
of "finding" it at its new and temporary location, and then I would
have it returned to its proper placement. These extra requirements
imposed solely on me, the cache owner, are meant to avoid the
generally "bad" form of one logging one's own caches. Hopefully,
these terms are deemed acceptable to the general geocaching
public.
Acknowledgements to Kealia for the 'Well-Rounded Cacher'
concept, to mjp303 for the 'Well-Travelled Cacher' concept, and to
Lignumaqua for the GSAK macro source code that I adapted. BELOW is
the code (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK), however, you will need to make modifications for it to
work!!!. SPECIFICALLY, you will have to replace the bold
black all-capital words with appropriate symbols in your .gsk file.
It is written this way here to obviate geocaching.com's (improper)
HTML parsing.
#*******************************************
# MacVersion = 1.0
# MacDescription = Well Spun Around
# MacAuthor = tenebrus (with a nod to Lignumaqua)
# MacFileName = WellSpunAround.gsk
# MacUrl =
#*******************************************
# Outputs table for challenge cache GC2N3QC
$count = 0
$_sql = ""
$link = "LESS-THAN-SIGNa href=''http://coord.info/"
WHILE $count LESS-THAN-SIGN 360
IF $count GREATER-THAN-SIGN 1
$_sql = $_sql + " UNION ALL "
ENDIF
$lower = NumToStr($count)
$upper = NumToStr($count + 3)
IF $count = 1
$lower = "0"
ENDIF
$_sql = $_sql + "SELECT '$lower - $upper' as 'Angle Band', COUNT(*) as 'Total Finds', '$link' || code || '''GREATER-THAN-SIGN' || code || 'LESS-THAN-SIGN/aGREATER-THAN-SIGN' as 'Example' FROM caches WHERE found AND degrees GREATER-THAN-SIGN= $lower AND degrees LESS-THAN-SIGN $upper"
$count = $count + 3
ENDWHILE
$status = Sqlite("sql",$_sql,"headings=yes")
# display the data
$html = SqlToHtml($status,"Well Spun Around","y")