The 'Team Tate' Geocaching Page

Introduction

Team Tate would like to welcome you to their Geocaching website. A brief summary of some of our activities can be found below.

Items for Sale

We have a number of GPS related goodies for sale. Click here to find out more!

Fox Hunt

Team Tate arranged the UK's (maybe even the worlds) first Geocache Fox Hunt in September 2002! The idea was inspired from the early days of CB radio, where a CB (the Fox) continually transmitted, and would be tracked down by chasers (the hounds) using their signal strength meters and some basic triangulation. Now the sport has been given a 21st Century makeover, to allow owners of a GPS receiver and a mobile phone to play the game.

Details and rules can be found here

Team Tate on Carlton TV

'Team Tate' and 'Daniel's Green Wellie Brigade' were featured on a TV broadcast produced by Carlton Television (ITV1 West Country) on the 17th June 2002. The recording was made a week earlier and featured a cache located on Portland (Dorset) called 'Lamb Stew'. It took about three hours to record but the whole feature, when broadcast, lasted a little over two minutes!

Team Tate (with lots of thanks to Gary and Jane!) have been allowed to publish the feature as a downloadable file. Right-click here to obtain your copy (its a little over 2Mb!) To comply with Carlton's request, we have to state that the footage is copyright Carlton West Country News.

Team Tate on the BBC

'Team Tate' have been featured on four BBC broadbasts:

BBC 1 South

The television show was BBC's 'Inside Out', which was recorded on a cold Saturday morning during the middle of December 2002. Along with the camera and sound men, we were accompanied by Chris Packam (the show's presenter), Helen Kent (the Producer of the feature), Tim and June (who were featured along with their teddy bears later in the show) and Kouros (who kicked the whole thing off in the first place).

The cache was placed specifically placed for us to find within the grounds of the Queen Victoria Country Park in Netley. We spent the best part of three hours filming and it was great fun with the exception of the bitter cold (Beckie suddenly appears wearing a pair of yellow gloves loaned to her by June). The best bit of the feature, however, was O'Mally - a dog that had been loaned to us my one of Sarah's friends specifically for the feature. O'Mallly was on her best behaivour and took everything in her stride, despite hurting her foot getting in and out of Sarah's car four times (a shot that was never featured in the final broadcast).

The feature ran for the best part of 15 minutes, and included other cachers: Richard and Beth, Dan and Pid, Tim and June, and Gulliver Bear (one of T&J's first cache hitch-hikers). The show was broadcast in the BBC South region on 13th January 2003, and I beleive it was used in other regions over the next fews months. I hope to be able to provide a link to the recording sometime in the future (just as soon as I can edit it down to a reasonable file size!).

Radio 4 and Radio Solent

The radio item was featured on Radio four as part of the 'You and Yours' programme. The main emphasis of the feature was the educational benefits of Geocaching for young children, and Team Tate worked in conjunction with the local school's Head Teacher to take a number of children out to visit a local cache (Owl's House).

The feature ran for over six minutes, and a copy of which can be downbloaded as an MP3 by right-clicking here, and selecting 'save target as' (the file is a little over 6Mb!). The same recording was used a few weeks later on BBC Radio Solent.

Southern Counties Radio

The most recent broadcast featured Sarah as a studio guest, whilst Neil Ford accompanied a presenter out in the field for BBC Southern Counties Radio. The feature was broadcast during the morning of the 29th June 2004, a copy of which can be downbloaded as a MP3.

There are two files, one for Neils interview and one for Sarah's. You can download a copy by clicking here, and selecting 'save target as' (5Mb) for part 1, and here (3.5Mb) for part 2.

Links

Geocaching.com (where it all began)
Geocacheuk.com (an excellent and well supported UK resource)
GAGB (the Geocaching Association of Great Britain)

If you would like to contact Team Tate to discuss Geocaching, please click here