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Daddee I once was a slug.
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 2815 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 1/31/2006, 10:29 am Post subject: Getting paid to Geocache |
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Yep - you read that right - you can get paid for using your mad geocaching skillz.
Seems that a company called Space Data found a way to make money by launching weather balloons with cellular transmitters called SkySites that allow for better cell coverage in some of the more remote areas of the south and southwest (including Arizona, New Mexico and Texas) - and then charge premium rates for using their coverage. These high-flyin' cell units hover between 70,000 and 100,000-feet and provide coverage for a 200-mile radius on Earth. However, they drawback is that they only stay aloft for 24 to 48 hours before coming back down to tera firma.
Once a balloon hits the ground it radios its location back to its successor in the sky, which then relays the data to the SkySite website.
Now comes the payoff - Space Data will pay $60 to anyone who retrieves the cell-baloon. They originally post only a particular balloon's general location, and the first certified 'cacher in the area who calls dibs gets the exact coordinates and an exclusive 48-hour window to retrieve the gear.
Now, before you start thinking this is only a piddly amount of cash - first ask yourself if you've ever been paid to hike, then consider that Space Data (through the SkySite website) reportedly paid out over $93,000 to its volunteer army last year, with the top earner banking $10,000.
I may have to start geocaching. _________________ "Only small minds want always to be right."
- Louis XIV
"...haven't you lived long enough to know that two men may honestly differ about a question and both be right?"
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 1/31/2006, 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe they should change the spelling to geocashing! |
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lzyboy
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 201 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 1/31/2006, 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like most of these are in TX or LA _________________ I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 2/1/2006, 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Well, rats! I didn't check out the website, but was hoping some of them would be up here in the Redneck Alps. We could sure use some of those extra transmitters up here--it seems to be part of the rural lifestyle now. Picture this: A big tall chubby ol' guy in a cowboy hat, Carhart clothes, driving huge diesel king cab Chevy pickup with duelies and lift kit, blue heeler dog in the back, talking on his teeny little cell phone. And the cell phones work only in a few areas. So they are calling the business where I work, and saying to me, "Ah'll be runnin' out of reception here perty quick, got a road cut comin' up!" It gets old. |
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