Attention Android Users!

Please contact me about possibly testing a Box Radar replacement.

If you have used Box Radar a significant amount and are interested in testing a new Android-based Letterboxing app and will be able to do a significant amount of testing, please contact me. The authors are looking for about 5 people to do the testing.

I can tell you that it is an AWESOME app!!

Lynn

I'd LOVE to use a new Box Radar app! My daughter's baby is due this week so I am sticking close to home, so I can't volunteer to test it-but I sure would like an update on it, and info on how to get it if it checks out!

what do you consider to be "a significant amount of testing"? what does that look like? Actually using it while on the hunt, or just checking for nearby boxes and comparing that to what shows up on an AQ search?
I'd like to help, but probably won't be out looking for too many boxes in the next couple months.

I'm in. I would be happy to test. I used Box Radar all the time. ONe of my favorite features was that it showed boxes from both websites on one combined map/list view.

Have you ever folded your signatures, set them aside for tomorrow then couldn't find them?

Fortunately, I just started looking around for something else and found them. I'll be putting together my logbook tonight.

I stitched together the signatures, glued the cardboard inside the cover paper, and glued the signatures inside of the cover. It is now drying under a book with a board on top and then weighed down. It should be ready in the morning for planting.

This is a replant. I'm waiting until the early afternoon so that it will be warm when I go traipsing through the snow to plant this letterbox. When I get back I'll have to remember to post how deep the snow was. The box will go about 400 feet from the parking lot along a trail. The forecast shows that it will be below freezing, but there is no snow in the forecast.

folded your signatures

Maybe I got up too early and my brain isn’t warmed up yet as I haven’t had any coffee, but I don’t know what you’re talking about 😂 Please elaborate as I’ve never done this before.

I'm sooo interested in helping. I'm from Ma. - east coast - if you are looking for different areas of the country.

I am so excited to hear this! Please keep us posted on the progress. It would be awesome to have an app that works on my non-Apple phone!!

Signatures, as in the folded groups of pages in a homemade logbook.

I am very interested! Can you be more specific about testing requirements?

Thanks for the willingness of whoever is putting the app together. Loved Box Radar & look forward to having something back that is similar!

Yes, worked last week, but the website is also gone. Yours will also quite working.

I would be very happy to try and help as much as I can.

Here is an example of making your own book.

I just call them logbooks 😂 never used the term signatures. Lookie that. You can teach an old dog new tricks.

I just call them logbooks 😂 never used the term signatures.

From Merriam Webster definition 3b:

one unit of a book comprising a group of printed sheets that are folded and stitched together

A book, including a log book, is made up of multiple signatures. However, our usage of log book is wider. I've seen some log books made up of interesting folds and cuts of paper.

I too would love to be put on the list of testers for this new app. Please choose me!!!!!!

I never knew that definition! Interesting.

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Remembering to put The Word of the Day calendar on her Christmas list

The roads were clear, and the parking lot had been packed down by previous vehicles. The trail was easy to follow at first, but I lost it about half way to the location. I even went the wrong way, but when there was no clear way I went back to where I was sure and tried again. I eventually found the place along the trail and planted the letterbox.

Then I went back uphill, through the knee-deep snow. 🐸 It is too bad that it wasn't a frog stamp that I was planting. 🐸

After this tangent I made, I thought of carving a stamp for every animal emoji, but there are too many. There are only 2 dog glyphs but 11 cat glyphs. (See page 2.) This means that the cats rule the Internet.

You might want to add what you've learned to the help wiki.

I agree with most of that -- except setting Ryan up as arbiter. Leans too far toward Groundspeak for my tastes.

Forgot how to search along a route. Example highway 1

Advanced search, location = "Along US Route 1", change Dist (mi) to something like 1 or 2 miles.

I didn't know you could do that for a location. Thought you had to use trip planner. Learned something new.

Thanks

Didn’t work it gave me new Zelma’s - I thought there was a premium feature where it gave you popular routes

I found it. Do simple search--Trip search, at the bottom of the columns you can select routes.

Thank youuuuuu

You might have to create a trip. I don't see Route 1 on there.

I don't see Route 1 on there.

There is a route called "US Route 1". *nodding*

-- Ryan