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Ma Bell - Multi Multi-Cache

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SlideRule: Owner needs to go back and revisit the logic of this cache.
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Hidden : 4/26/2005
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The Cache is NOT at the posted Coordinates


This is an attempt to incorporate the elements of a multiple cache along with some elements of logic.

What I have done is to acquire the phone numbers of a number of pay phones through out the San Diego Area and put them together as a logical puzzle and multi-cache all in one.

All you have to do, is go to the indicated locations.  Get the last four digits of the phone number of  the pay phone close by.  For Example:  If the phone number is: 619-555-1234, you would need the 1234 part of the phone number.  Easy so far.

Then assign the numbers 1,2,3,4  to the respective letter sequence for that phone number.  Each phone has a different (LS) Letter Sequence.

So for example:  if the LS for that phone was MNPW, then M=1, N=2, P=3, W=4. 

The letters are used consistently through out.  So all phones using the letter M will always have the same integer for the letter M in their phone number.

You would do the same for all the phones in the list.  But, you will not need all phones in the list as the numbers are repeated all over the city.  So, just go to the ones close to your location until you get enough information to figure out the final location of the cache.  At that point, the cache becomes a 1/1 in Difficulty and Terrain.

All coordinates for the phones were obtained from my GEO-mobile, parked as close to the phone as possible.  All phones are in well lighted areas, next to grocery stores, and have access 7/24.


Now on to the phone locations:  (Which will be added to as I acquire more phone numbers)


Latitude               Longitude                 LS       Rough Location

N 32º 45.200'      W 117º 07.788'      CDFB    30th @ Howard   NC 
N 32º 49.881'      W 117º 09.769'      DEJA    Clairemont Mesa Blvd @ 805

N 32º 47.974'      W 117º 14.071'      GIBH    Grand Ave - Pacific Beach      

N 34º 30.012'      W 118º 37.452'      DDHI    Castaic, CA      

 

The location of the final cache is at:   N 32º 4E.IGD'      W 117º 0I.ICG'  
Feedback about this puzzle and the coordinates will be greatly appreciated.


DISCLAIMER:  Ma Bell has this nasty habit of marking phones with the label of "Unable to Call this Number'.  This is Ma Bell's attempt to limit the number of nefarious uses of the phone as mobile command posts for various kinds of highly mobile illegal business.  Thus, the phone number of any given location may be so marked in the future, making that phone number unavailable for this exercise.  If this occurs, Please inform the owner of this cache and the cache description will be changed as soon as possible.

 



Checksums: 23W and 27N

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va gur envy - Arkg gb gur fvta - Npebff gur fgerrg sebz _____ ( Frr gur vebal )

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)