http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/garmin-chirp-geocaching-wireless-beacon Your Man Cave - You Rule! Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/garmin-chirp-geocaching-wireless-beacon/comment-page-1#comment-1065 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 06:59:26 +0000 http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/garmin-chirp-geocaching-wireless-beacon#comment-1065 Coulda been great. 0

]]> http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/garmin-chirp-geocaching-wireless-beacon/comment-page-1#comment-1064 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 06:46:46 +0000 http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/garmin-chirp-geocaching-wireless-beacon#comment-1064 Has potential, but too expensive I got one of these to play around with when it was first available. It’s an interesting little device. It won’t change the game of geocaching radically, but it does add to it. The main thing holding it back will be the cost.It is a little transmitter, good for up to 30 feet or so. It broadcasts a beacon continuously at low power. If a compatible unit detects this beacon, it will send out a request to it, and it will then dump out its data. This consists of its name (9 characters), description (50 characters) and coordinates. It also sends out information such as number of visitors (it does not count unique visitors – if a unit requests data twice, it is counted twice) and low battery alert.The battery compartment is not easy to open. Removing the battery is also difficult – I found that using a strong magnet is the easiest way of getting it out. Garmin claims the battery should last for a year.The typical use for this will be one of the stages of a…

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