EFB Echuca, Victoria, Australia
By
WazzaAndWenches on 29-Apr-18. Waypoint GA11098
Cache Details
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| Type: | Beacon |
| Container: | Nano |
| Coordinates: | S36° 8.528' E144° 45.114' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 297732E 5997945N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 101 m |
| Local Government Area: | Campaspe |
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Description
Echuca Fire Brigade began in February 1873 when council called for a schedule of fire fighting equipment, and applications for those willing to join a Fire Brigade.
Twelve men joined, and Council had a fire service.
In 1874 Council handed over to the group, but the equipment was kept at small wooden premises near the current civic centre. However the equipment (a hose and leather buckets) were of little use due to the poor water pressure
In 1878 a horse drawn fire engine arrived, and in 1880 the first station was established on the Pakenham St site in what was known as Paddys Market, similar to the Victorian Market in Melbourne.
The Pakenham Street site was modified in 1918 with a 2 bay engine house added to the eastern side. This was used till 1967 when it was demolished and a 3 bay building was erected 1968.
With a growing urban area and a significant increase in turnouts the brigade outgrew the Pakenham St site. This new fire station opened in March 2017 and is a state of the art facility. The brigade's fifty members are highly trained and provide firefighting and many other types of emergency response all as a fully volunteer based service.
The cache...
This is a Beacon Cache. This means your GPS device will need to receive a signal from a hidden transmitter. That signal will tell you where to find the cache. The transmitter is a Garmin Chirp. As such it will only work with Garmin Chirp compatible devices. You can check compatible equipment here https://buy.garmin.com/en-AU/AU/p/74811#devices
Hints
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Logs
Arrived at GZ and started working out what was required. Once at GZ I was about to make the grab when someone came out and asked what I was doing. SPRUNG!! Explained about caching and mentioned the CO's name...and the response from the guy was....Crap, has he hidden one here?? Yes was my response, and he said go for it, and wandered back inside. Think we got away with one there.
Anyway, log was signed and cache returned and we headed off.
Thanks W&W...good to see you're known around the area.
As it was raining Mr Y'stassie headed to the published coordinates to make contact with the chirp. With the hirp receiver a tivated he tried for 15 minutes but after 15 minutes trying and failing to detect the chirp he returned to the ar and exchanged his GPS for Mrs Y'stassie's. The batteries of this receiver had just been replaced. After no time he had the information in hand and was soon at the hide with cache log in hand.
Thanks for this beacon cache WazzaAndWenches. We enjoyed the final hide. We're not sure whether fresh batteries provided a little extra umph that enabled the chirp info to download or it was just a fluke.
We have been somewhat otherwise occupied and not done a lot of caching in the past 18 months, but today was too good a day to be outdoors.
We were her earlier and I thought I had our Garmin 62sc set correctly, but nothing happened. Had to drop a cache off with the CO, so ran it by him. Ok, our GPS is compatible, but why haven't I got the CHIRP happening
. Came home and google instructions then headed out again 
. Still nothing happening, but now I understood the ChIRP is to give me more instructions for GZ and the log book 
. Thinking, thinking 
brain wave . Gathered sufficient information to find another untouched log book for to claim another ftf.Thanks WazzaANdWenches for the cache, enabling us to try a new caching approach and your encouragement in keeping our geocaching australia site alive.
