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[Flidget Jerome]

Adrian brought a GPS unit today. It's confirmed that the 56 Dean Street Phones are the right coordinates.

And of course they didn't ring again.

At this point I don't know what to do except wait another week for the PMs to change the coordinates the way they did for cranky_old_man.

(BTW, thanks for the thread, Aliendial.)

[EDIT]Woops, corrected the address. Thanks Malrog[/EDIT]

[bcriswell]

Thanks for the report. Hopefully we will get another London location.

[Malrog]

London Axon escapades!

[Adrian]

Let me expand on the report. Some of us assembled at the Costa Coffee on Shaftesbury and Wardour at 5:15pm to exchange strategy and swap war stories. We then left at 5:30pm to scout out the locations. I turned on my GPS unit (Garmin Foretrex 201) which locked on to four or five satellites with an accuracy of 30ft (10 metres).

Using the exact GPS co-ordinates of the axon, I located the axon at 56 Dean Street to an accuracy of at least 20 metres, such that it is *absolutely impossible* that we had the wrong phone booths, especially since there were no other phone booths within at least 50 metres.

We waited at those phone booths and a couple of others, meeting up with some other beekeepers, and 6:07pm came and went. So, three possibilities are apparent, in order of descending likelihood.

1) The PMs have supplied us with the wrong GPS co-ordinates
2) They are ringing the wrong phone
3) My GPS isn't working properly

I've used my GPS for several months now. It works fine, and furthermore, it correlates with the location previously estimated by London beekeepers. Something else is wrong here.

Still, being Brits, we triumphed through adversity and had a good time anyway. I've attached a photo of some of the beekeepers there (from left to right: Malrog, Dan, Adrian, Fi and Tom).

[aliendial]

*sigh*

You guys and the guys in Las Vegas - so much work to prove a negative! I guess all we can do is hope for a re-positioning. You've done so much more work than anyone on a single axon. "Fun" as I am sure it has been, you gotta stop beating your head against the wall some time.

Now a game note - silly as it seems at this point, of course Dana is not in any position to fix this. It was the SP who hid the recipe3 axons for us. So may I suggest an email to ladybee777 may be more appropriate?

PS - I know you guys are all close personal friends now, but for those of us across the pond, we need some names on the pic! (Yeah, I can probably work out which Hon is which, and is that Fi? But I need a little more help...) Thanks!

[SpaceBass]

[Adrian]

I just added the names to the picture caption, damn you!

[Malrog]

[Tien_Le]

Heracles never worked so hard

[Flidget Jerome]

Re: London Axon escapades!

[Wishi-san]

You know I hear Manchester is a nice place for phones.. doo da dooo...

[krystyn]

I applaud you all for the hard work you put into this. Man!



I wish for you a working axon, and stat.

[bcriswell]

[richchestmat]

And somebody did double-check the French House right? Oh well, time to wait for a change at the Operator end and hope we Brits get another chance.

[SPEC] As I mentioned before on hunt, there must be a reason why Melissa is looking here for a crew member. It's odd that she only tries one hit. Or was it the Princess? [/SPEC]

Whatever else, this bodes well for Szygy should and physical stuff be required.

[Lunaci]

An Alaskan Yankee in Leicester Square