Blue Switch Geocoin

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Owner:
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Released:
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Origin:
Florida, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

My name is Big Blue
My Mission is to travel far and wide celebrating the turning off of selective availability of GPS satellite transmissions.
Travel me to wherever GPS accuracy is appreciated.

About This Item

Big Blue Switch

GPS based accurate global positioning as we know it today in the civilian sector was not possible until the U.S. military turned off deliberate degradation (selective availability) on 5/2/2000. After that date, many opportunities opened up such as GPS geocaching, modern marine & land navigation, street navigating, etc., etc.
If you do not intend to log your visit onto the geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE ME.  My travels and progress require you to log that I have been taken from this geocache.  You will also need to log when you place me in another geocache.  It’s easy!
If you are willing to log your part of my journey and place me in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), retrieve me from this geocache.
My geocoin owner is a retired U.S. Army service member of 24 years who understands and appreciates the technological opportunities given us by the military.  The end of the cold war was a major contributor to the elimination of “Selective Availability”.

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Tracking History (54650.6mi) View Map

Visited 4/6/2013 cruiser5 took it to Lansing Lookout Iowa - 123.82 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/5/2013 cruiser5 took it to For Grandpa Harry, Love Emily Minnesota - 45.7 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/5/2013 cruiser5 took it to Wisconsin Welcomes You Wisconsin - 1,094.33 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/5/2013 cruiser5 took it to And they all fall down Minnesota - 1,401.03 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/16/2013 cruiser5 took it to Happy Meal McCache California - 307.56 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/14/2013 cruiser5 took it to Chic'n Rave 2011 California   Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/14/2013 cruiser5 retrieved it from Chic'n Rave 2011 California   Visit Log

Picked this Geo-coin up from Chic-rave 2011, will bring this along home with me to Minnesota or maybe drop it off on my way back to Phoenix from California.
Dropped Off 2/3/2013 RLFCF placed it in Chic'n Rave 2011 California - 2,680.55 miles  Visit Log
Write note 2/3/2013 RLFCF posted a note for it   Visit Log

Dropped in Chic'n Rave while at Solvang, Ca.
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/6/2012 RLFCF retrieved it from Missyrific Maine   Visit Log

Found on day where it started raining right after during vacation to Maine to visit some wonderful people in Hollis Center (future in-laws).

Will drop on next local caching this weekend.

Got waylaid with a move to new house. But did move coin across country.

This entry was edited by RLFCF on Sunday, 03 February 2013 at 21:33:17 UTC.
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