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Revision as of 20:26, 10 May 2014

Location

14 metres off a public footpath through a wheat field close to Brampton railway station, Suffolk, UK.

Participants

Expedition

Arrived. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.3946,1.5525 15:15, 10 May 2014 (EDT)

This outing should have been really easy being so close to home. I had a printed page with the co-ordinates so of course nothing could go wrong. This was my first outing using the gh.eupeodes.nl calculator. When I entered the co-ordinates they were 140km away. That was easy to fix. Just correct East 0 to East 1 and try again. The new position was still 6km away and only a few metres from my house. Clearly I had misunderstood the screen shot.

It was time to deploy the HTC Droid but of course there was no 3G signal in the valley with the stream. I had to abort the walk and drive to a hill top in range of a 3G mast. The Droid managed to log into the geohashing app and I had the co-ordinates.

This time the circular walk was easy. Follow the stream for a bit. Turn right up the hill. Turn left at the top and notice that there was now a 3G signal so the abort and hill top drive had not been necessary. I got to within 14 metres on the public footpath. The hashpoint was in the wheat field a short way off the path. It was possible to make a small backtrack and use the tractor tracks made during crop spraying. These came right to the hashpoint which was wandering about because of the unstable weather. Success!

Photos

@52.3946,1.5524 Hashpoint
Brampton Railway Station
A Train at Brampton

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+metres off a public footpath through a wheat field close to Brampton railway station, Suffolk, UK.
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+*Arrived.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.39460349&lon=1.55246794&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3946,1.5525] 15:15, 10 May 2014 (EDT)
+This outing should have been really easy being so close to home. I had a printed page with the co-ordinates so of course nothing could go wrong. This was my first outing using the gh.eupeodes.nl calculator. When I entered the co-ordinates they were 140km away. That was easy to fix. Just correct East 0 to East 1 and try again. The new position was still 6km away and only a few metres from my house. Clearly I had misunderstood the screen shot.
-*Arrived.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.39460349&lon=1.55246794&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3946,1.5525] 15:15, 10 May 2014 (EDT)
+It was time to deploy the HTC Droid but of course there was no 3G signal in the valley with the stream. I had to abort the walk and drive to a hill top in range of a 3G mast. The Droid managed to log into the geohashing app and I had the co-ordinates.
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+This time the circular walk was easy. Follow the stream for a bit. Turn right up the hill. Turn left at the top and notice that there was now a 3G signal so the abort and hill top drive had not been necessary. I got to within 14 metres on the public footpath. The hashpoint was in the wheat field a short way off the path. It was possible to make a small backtrack and use the tractor tracks made during crop spraying. These came right to the hashpoint which was wandering about because of the unstable weather. Success!
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+Image:2014-05-10_52_1_20-15-40-358.jpg |  [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.39459276&lon=1.55240893&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3946,1.5524 Hashpoint]
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+Image:2014-05-10_52_1_Sourcerer_1.jpg | Brampton Railway Station
+Image:2014-05-10_52_1_Sourcerer_2.jpg | A Train at Brampton
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