We know that we haven't been here long, but Blogger was always going to be our temporary home until we could get something a little smarter. You know we wanted a place of our own. Where is this place, you may not be asking.....
Well its at www.ohbeep.com
At the new site you can find our show notes, blog, archived shows, current show and where to find us within the social network sphere. It has also enabled us to include Speak Pipe.
We hope you like the new home. The current site will be up for a week or so and then it will be removed.
This move also means updates to the RSS feed for the blog and the podcast.
For the blog: www.ohbeep.com/feed
For the podcast: www.ohbeep.com/feed/podcast
If you have any questions send e mail to feedback@ohbeep.com or mark@ohbeep.com.
Sunday, 10 November 2013
Hikerjamz and DarrylW4
Let me start by saying that I can't remember having ever used Skype. The app has sat there on my laptop for years - just in case - but I have never (or I don't recall) used it. Last night this all changed. Not only was I using Skype, but I was using it to be involved in a live recording of the Hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show.
Since starting our own podcast, Hikerjamz has been extremely supportive. We've had several conversations in the last few weeks about our podcasts, he has also plugged our show on his (hear it on episode 33 of his show).
Sam and I called in last night and were surprised to hear that there would be another guest. None other than DarrylW4 from Geogearheads and The Geocaching Podcast. Why is this significant? Well, Darryl has mentored us during these early days of our podcast. He has offered technical advice, promoted the show and has helped in so many other ways.
It was a little surreal, sitting at our dining room table, speaking live with the two people who have been the most supportive of our show. It was also a lot of fun.
If you want to hear this show and shows in the Hikerjamz archive head over to www.hikerjamz.com.
Since starting our own podcast, Hikerjamz has been extremely supportive. We've had several conversations in the last few weeks about our podcasts, he has also plugged our show on his (hear it on episode 33 of his show).
Sam and I called in last night and were surprised to hear that there would be another guest. None other than DarrylW4 from Geogearheads and The Geocaching Podcast. Why is this significant? Well, Darryl has mentored us during these early days of our podcast. He has offered technical advice, promoted the show and has helped in so many other ways.
It was a little surreal, sitting at our dining room table, speaking live with the two people who have been the most supportive of our show. It was also a lot of fun.
If you want to hear this show and shows in the Hikerjamz archive head over to www.hikerjamz.com.
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Space Events
Apple, how you taunt me. This update was in my calendar this morning. Unfortunately, we won't be attending any of the many space related geocaching events.
If you are going to one of these events, let us know how it went.
Monday, 4 November 2013
Stitch This...
Good news, The Oh Beep! Geocaching Podcast is now available on Stitcher.
Click on the Stitcher icon to the right and it will take you to a link of the latest show.
Click on the Stitcher icon to the right and it will take you to a link of the latest show.
Fairey Battle
In episode two of the podcast, we discussed a cache called Fairey Battle (GCMJKZ). This is one of those geocache locations that has you saying "I lived around here all my life and never knew this was here".
It proved to be a great opportunity for family learning. The kids could go back to school and participate in history lessons in a whole new way.
The geocache location is in the Watchwood plantation, near Calverton, in Nottingham.
A Fairey Battle is a single engined light bomber, built by the Fairey Aviation Company. This was the plane three Polish airmen flew on a bombing raid in Calais, on the 13th October 1940. On the way back from the raid, to their base at RAF Swinderby, the damaged aircraft crashed in Calverton. The three airmen were killed instantly.
At the crash site is a memorial to the three airmen.
We went to find the cache on a Friday night, allowing the kids only enough time to get changed out of their school clothes (once they get settled there is no moving them). Miss Watto, Ben Button, Doctor D and myself had a pleasant walk to GZ (I seem to recall Miss Watto discovering that her brand new boots weren't very water resistant). When we arrived, we were very surprised by the memorial. We had seen no mention of it on the cache site, nor had we seen any signage on our walk to it.
This geocache location is a great reminder of why we love geocaching. We all learned something new, the location was beautiful and there is always something exciting about a new discovery.
It proved to be a great opportunity for family learning. The kids could go back to school and participate in history lessons in a whole new way.
The geocache location is in the Watchwood plantation, near Calverton, in Nottingham.
A Fairey Battle is a single engined light bomber, built by the Fairey Aviation Company. This was the plane three Polish airmen flew on a bombing raid in Calais, on the 13th October 1940. On the way back from the raid, to their base at RAF Swinderby, the damaged aircraft crashed in Calverton. The three airmen were killed instantly.
At the crash site is a memorial to the three airmen.
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| Memorial to F/O Jan Gebicki, Sgt Edward Morawa and Sgt Tadeusz Egierski |
We went to find the cache on a Friday night, allowing the kids only enough time to get changed out of their school clothes (once they get settled there is no moving them). Miss Watto, Ben Button, Doctor D and myself had a pleasant walk to GZ (I seem to recall Miss Watto discovering that her brand new boots weren't very water resistant). When we arrived, we were very surprised by the memorial. We had seen no mention of it on the cache site, nor had we seen any signage on our walk to it.
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| Doctor D and Ben Button standing in front of the memorial |
This geocache location is a great reminder of why we love geocaching. We all learned something new, the location was beautiful and there is always something exciting about a new discovery.
Sunday, 3 November 2013
Just The Two Of Us - Episode 2
Here it is, the difficult second podcast.
In the news we cover UK geocaching events and how HS2 may impact geocaching in the UK.
Doctor D picks a geocaching related video in new section video of the week.
We also discuss our dream cache and why we enjoy caching. We use the cache Fairey Battle as an example of why we love geocaching.
Video of the week:
Things are coming together...
Little by little things are coming together. The latest addition to the podcast is an improved image - with ammo can.
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| The Oh Beep! Geocaching Podcast Logo |
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Music Maestro...
The music in our podcast is provided by Adam Wallenta. Many thanks Adam.
Intro song The Mask
Outro son Beautiful Day
http://adamwallenta.com/
Intro song The Mask
Outro son Beautiful Day
http://adamwallenta.com/
Monday, 28 October 2013
Welcome to the Oh Beep! Geocaching Podcast
Welcome to episode one of the Oh Beep! Geocaching Podcast. Hosting are CacheZilla, Sammy Doctor D, Ben Button and Benignsource.
In this episode we tell the story of our introduction to Geocaching, share some of our favourite moments, offer some advice. We forget the name and numbers of all the caches we have found.
We also mention, in a roundabout way some of the Geocaching podcasts we enjoy:
The Podcache Show
UK Geocaching Podcast
The Podcache Show
UK Geocaching Podcast
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