The NFC Scottsdale #8
***** This series of geocaches uses NFC tags and requires a smart phone. If you are not familiar with NFC tags, please find (or at least read) #1 in the series. *****
CACHE NICKNAME: Golf Ball Juggling
This is a difficult green to reach. Make sure you retrieve all of the balls from the cup.
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My first two geocache series were inspired by The TPC Scottsdale golf course. Since the containers for those caches were made of PVC, they were called The PVC Scottsdale courses.
This is my latest geocaching venture which uses NFC tags, so Welcome to The NFC Scottsdale!!!
NFC stands for near-field communication. NFC tags are small chips that allow wireless communication between devices that are close together. For this series of caches, NFC tags can be tapped with a smart phone to get further instructions, coordinates and/or hints to find a cache.
On this series of caches, you will be tapping on NFC tags and clicking on the popup to open the corresponding website for those additional details. The NFC tags used on The NFC Scottsdale course are white plastic chips almost identical in size to a quarter. Note that 'tapping' really means placing your phone on/very near the NFC tag for 1-2 seconds.
Smart phones that are newer than 10 years old have NFC technology enabled by default, so it is highly unlikely that any changes need to be made to your smart phone. There are also NO APPLICATIONS that need to be installed to successfully complete The NFC Scottsdale course.
Similar to Scottsdale's TPC golf course, this NFC course is a series of holes/caches that is great to be played all together, in sequence. Each cache has at least one NFC tag that must be read. It is less than 1.75 miles to complete all 9 in sequence and return to the starting point.
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Thanks and have fun!