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    Need a review for the Explorist (x10) for new website...

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    In the process of building a new website that reviews handheld GPS units.

     

    We are looking for someone that has a Magellan Explorist (510, 610, 710 doesn't matter), to write a complete review, and take pics of it as well. We will pick the person with the best review and high quality pics, and use it on the website. Also the person we use, will also be able to review others GPS units that we mail to them in the future to review and compare.

     

    If interested contact me first via PM and we will go from there.

     

    Pics must be taken on a solid white back drop, high resolution.

     

    Also need a review from someone with a newer Lowrance handheld.

     

    Thanks!

    Any TB's want to go to Czech? Or from Czech to the USA?

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I will be traveling to the USA the second week of September from Czech Republic. Are there any travel bugs in the Brno area that would like to go the the USA?

     

    I also will be coming back from the the USA in November, if you have one that wants to travel to Czech. I will be staying in Missouri and Kansas around Kansas City all the way down to Joplin, MO., Tulsa, OK.

    Oregon Beta Release 3.61

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by Roadster

    I like the features that Garmin has put on the Beta 3.71, mostly the Search Filter, that will come in handy if I don't have time to do a multistage or a mystery cache, or maybe I am looking somewhere to put a travel bug, I can look for either a small or large cache instead of a micro etc. Very nice.

     

    I also like the Automatic Shaded relief. looking forward for more to be added.

     

    The topic reads 3.61 but I meant 3.71. Didn't proof read too well.

    Searching for Geocacher in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    in All Nations

    Posted

    I have a friend over there that has a Travel Bug of mine. She was going to drop it somewhere, but has never gotten online. If I can get her to get the TB to one of you, can you place it in a cache and get it moving over there?

     

    Email me at denise.vajdak@gmail.com so I can get/give addresses privately. Thanks!

     

    Have you found someone to take care of this? If not I will be heading that way in about a week or so from today.

    Problem with field notes started july 2

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    My 450T has been doing the same thing the past couple days, today I opened the file and there was a blank line at the top, so I moved the lines up one so there is no blank line and it worked, I think the problem might be, for me at least, is that I am deleting the text inside the file and not the whole file, I will delete the whole file this time and see.

    Magellan GPS, what is the best...

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Thanks guy's! After reading what you all said and I also contacted 'Mopar' and he said the same thing plus some more, and I have decided to go with the 60CSx and I even just ordered it online.

     

    It's a shame that Magellan kind of dropped out of the race, I sure did love my Maggie! Their customer support back then was bad as well.

     

    Thanks again!

     

     

     

    Roadster

    Magellan GPS, what is the best...

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Since I haven't kept track of what is good/new out there in the way of Magellan GPS units, I was wondering what some of you think is the best one to buy nowadays.

     

    I like Magellan and my price range is $500.00 and less, BUT I could be talked into a Garmin...

     

    I was looking at the Garmin GPSMap 60CSx and it looks like a good one.

     

    A friend of mine had an eTrex and in the car he would have to hold it up by the windshield or lose the sat's, but my Magellan wouldn't lose the signal anywhere in the car, and I noticed out caching if the trees was thick he would lose sats where I would not. I went out with another friend that just bought an eTrex and his did the same.

     

    Now does the 60CSx have a better antenna then the eTrex?

    Is there any caches in Hyde park?

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    I'm going to be traveling to London in a couple weeks and I will be staying across the street from Hyde park and I would like to do some caching while there.

     

    My question: Are there any caches in Hyde park?

     

    If so please post the url for one, from there I can do a search for surrounding caches. I tried to do a search but it returned 30,000 hits or so for the United Kingdom.

     

     

    Thanks!

    Been A While....

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    It has been a while (March) since I have been on the forums. Feels good to be back. Just wanted to say hi to everyone I use to know (dboggny, Mopar, brdad, lapaglia, just to name a few).

     

    I see brdad is still a women in a Lumberjacks body. <_<

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    Has anyone seen any of them out caching or are they in here all the time?

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Tornado/GPS???

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I live pretty much in the middle of where all the tornados touched down last Sunday (05/04/03) there is a lot of damage from them, overall that day 80+ tornados were spotted in 8 states. Within a 45 mile radius of my home there were 7 spotted, 1 was an F4, 1 a F3, 1 a F2 and the others were F0 to F1.

     

    So what does a GPS has to do with tornados? 2 reasons.

     

    This is a storm chaser account of trying to track down one:

    "We ended up chasing in SE Kansas on May 4th and were able to watch as a supercell developed while heading east along in southern Kansas. Eventually we ended up in Cherokee County Kansas. Monitoring weather radio (we couldn't find any skywarn networks operating on the ham radio), we heard about a tornado in the county due west of Cherokee and we began heading west(aided by our GPS unit and delorme street atlas) we came up over a small hill and saw a large tornado (maybe a quarter mile wide) a couple miles to our south. amazingly we had good back lighting of the tornado. It turns out this was the Columbus Kansas tornado, I saw on CNN. we took several minutes of video and about a dozen pictures of the tornado as it was heading east and eventually getting rain wrapped. We found the damage path of it seeing a roof torn off a house, and numerous trees completely uprooted. we were like 3 miles from the tornado as it was occurring."

     

    The second reason:

     

    I work for a Insurance pool which what we do is pick up wrecked cars for the insurance companies after they have settled with their clients and bring them to our lot and auction them off to rebuilders or salvage yards. There were a lot of torn up cars around here (over 120 "totaled" in just one town) and so one lady that works for a certain insurance company uses a GPSr to mark where the insured vehicles are because a lot of the houses were destroyed and there are no street signs left and she can't exactly give us an address where to pick the cars up but she happened to mention to me that she used a GPS to mark them in case we can't find one she can go right back to it, I told her I have a GPS and if she would when she faxes in the "Pick Up" request to put the coords on there too. I can now go right to them with no problems.

     

    Below are a couple pictures of vehicles I have picked up.

     

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    http://www.mokancachers.com

    -Does anyone have some cache on them?-

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