Oxfam - First Night - Lake Manchester

The support crew trid hard to look after the walkers.  Paul brought his blue "easy up", a gas heater (far left) and a foot spa.  Frank had fun with the technology bringing batteries and an inverter to run the foot spas.  An esky full of hot water to keep those toes nice and warm.

Melissa (right) prepared a beautiful hot meal.  A stew with some spice to it.
Paul has a foot fetish.

Ahhh that's nice

During the day (Friday) Darren came and set up his tent (Left).  Then Frank and Paul set up the blue "easy up" and the small tent. Frank slept in the small tent.  Paul had the heater in the easy up and the girls were in Darren's great tent .

Sat morning 4:50am just prior to departure.

5:00am Saturday off we go......

OxfamGPS

Oxfambulators GPS
I  have a GPS tracker with the team.
To see where they are live
http://syndetic.com.au/ftest1.html
If the GPS has not reported for a while, then you will not see the trace nor the little red tear drop marker showing their position.  Just come back later.

The position but not the historical trace.

http://syndetic.com.au/ftest.html

You can make a donation to Oxfam through our webpage too.
Trail maps and contour maps can be found at
http://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/brisbane/trail_b/hitting-the-trail-btr/


OXFAMBULATORS
team page on the oxfam site
http://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/Brisbane/teams/team/?team_id=9474

Got their ID










Lets go...Leaving Cybele's.

Team including Bob and Ivan who provided invaluable advice and assitance and who are off to walk the boarder ranges as the girls do their thing on that glorious mountain.

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If you know of a web site that I push data to from a TK102 GPS tracker and have it display on a public web page then let me know.

If you are a Javascript guru and would like to help me fix up the web page with the map, please contact me.

Frank

GPS tracking

I have a TK-102 GPS tracking device on loan from a friend and I have a TK102-2 on order via Ebay.

GPS tracking devices consist of a GPS receiver and a mobile phone module all in the one little box with a battery. In my case I have set the TK102 to send the GPS data every 5 minutes.

The challenge is to display the track in real time on a map. Easy. I would have thought so but does not seem to be.

GPSGATE Buddy tracker
Free and has a nice web page but you have to log in to view it.

INSTAMAPPER
http://www.instamapper.com/faq_li.html
Only works with gps enabled phones. The FAQ specificallys says nope
I already have a dedicated tracking device. Will it work with InstaMapper?
InstaMapper only works with supported cell phones. Dedicated GPS tracking devies (such as Zoombak) will not work.

GPS-LIVETRACK
gps-livetrack.com
Very slooooow
Could not get it to work

gpsgate

To get the Javascript

ONLY WORKS with INTERNET EXPLORER! ?
http://apps.gpsgate.com/BuddyTracker/pubGrpGenerator.html?grpname=testpublic&appid=1

When you have logged in to your BuddyTracker account,
1
click on the link “Groups” in the top menu. On that page you find a form called “Create your own Group today”. Give your group a name and type in a description. Select “Public” to be able to use your group for Web Services. Then press the “Create” button.
2
Your new group is now available in the My Groups list to the left.
3
Click on the name of your group to go to your groups settings page.
4
Click on the link called “Public URL to _YOUR_GROUP_ event page”.
5
Click on the button “Get code” to move to the cut’n paste wizard.
6
Fill in the form to create code for your web page.
You need a Google Maps key to be able to display a Google map on your web page. If you don’t have one then click on the link below that field to get one from Google.

Then type in the generated key in the field. You now have the options to choose size, zoom level and starting position of your map. Click on the Get code button when you are done.
You now have three windows with completed code.

Ute Insurance

Got the Suncorp insurance bill for the ute today.  Decided paying over $1k for a 10year old ute did not seem right.

First went online to iselect.com and they aofferred numerous solutions from companies I had never heard of and starting from $834.48

I wondered what a name brand insurer would charge.  Mr google suggested NRMA and after spending 20minutes chatting to Rebecca, she anounced $708.42 or add another $63.50 for windscreen insurance (Not included inthe original Suncorp insurance).

The next ovious question was "what is a 10 year old tray back ute actually worth"?.  See below but it looks to me like about $7k



What the .....SUNCORP New Policy?
I got on to the Suncorp web site and entered the data for a new policy
So I guess they know something I don't about me.
I even admitted to the kangaroo incident.

A long phone call established that business vs personal and $500 vs $600 excess were part o the reason.






CAR VALUATION
redbook.com.au

* Private Price Guide $5,800 - $7,300

* Trade In Price Guide $3,600 - $5,100

* Average Km 160,000 - 240,000

Price Guide $26,885* Price Guide  Whatever that is

www.carsguide.com.au
Notactually all that many for sale but prices range $9k - $14k

drive.com.au

FORD  FALCON XL BA
UTILITY, 2003, 4.0 lt, 4 SP AUTO SEQ SPORTSHIFT View valuation details	Estimated Valuations: $7,200 - $8,800 private sale $7,100 - $8,000 trade in $11,300 - $13,560 dealer price

Dan scores a goal

 

And then celebrated the way the pros do on TV

Stroll up Mt Cootha

To build empathy toward Megan and the walkers (I think), we went for a walk up Mt Cootha this afternoon.

Marcus, Bella, Megan, Chris.
Dan, Jemma

Dan, Marcus

This is the view of the water looking under the thing that Marcus is standing on in the photo above.

Dan

I have been tinkering with a GPS tracker.  It is a TK102 that I borrowed from a friend.  It sends data messages via the GSM network to gpsgate.com buddy tracker (Free service).

This map view shows us going from home to church then dropping Marcus and Bella in Graceville, back home to get a cake for Dan and taking it to church then home then to Mt Cootha.  The last bit is a walk from JC Slaughter Falls Car Park to the Summit.

Here is a close up of the bit at Mt Cootha using satellite view.

 And even closer
 The reports are sent every 5 minutes.