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I believe Magellan Communicator only works with the new Explorer GC and the Triton line.

! This took place at this year's MOGA held the 2nd week of April. While the air temp was in the mid to upper 70s, I'm sure the water temp was still pretty cold.

If everything on your 40 is saved to Topo 8, you're good to go. Delorme's usual reported fix for the problem you describe is "Replaced back plastics".

There isn't really a glitch with 2.7. It's just not as user friendly as 2.8 i.e. there's more hoops to jump through to load multiple files. If you're upgrading to CR 2.0 and FW 2.8, you have nothing to worry about. Your scenario will be handled with ease. The child waypoints and caches will all be combined into one GPX file for each PQ you set up so if you have PQs for 8 regions you'll have 8 GPX files loaded on the PN's sd card. 1 of those files can be open and in use at a time. When you want to change to another file you just open the one you want and it will first save any changes to the one that's closing. You'll still need to keep each PQ below the 1000 mark (including child waypoints).

The plug-in does not work with FF 3.6 or above until Delorme puts out an update. It should work fine with IE or earlier versions of FF.

Why not skip a step and just save it directly to the SD card out of GSAK? Good point Lee. Old habits got in the way of my thinking. Yes the GPX file can be saved directly from "File>Export" to the 60's sd card.

There are multiple ways to load PQs to your PN-60. Cache Register 2.0 will be released by Delorme soon and it will support the PN-60 and PN-30, 40 that have the 2.8 FW update. You can also use GSAK, however until updates are made to add the PN-60 to the direct "send to GPS" menu, I would avoid that method of loading. Instead, use the File>Export>GPX/Loc function to create a GPX of your combined caches/child waypoints and then simply drag & drop the GPX file onto the SD card of your 60. You can also drag & drop an unzipped GPX file that comes directly from the GC.com onto the SD card but the catch is, since the cache file and child waypoint file are separate, they will be stored on the card that way and you can only have one file open in internal memory at any given time. Not a big issue for some people. Of course you can also load PQs using Topo NA 9 and the new sync feature. If you look under the map files tab, you'll notice a tab named "geocaching". This works much like Cache Register. Click on that tab, log in to your GC account and then choose auto update. You'll see you now have your PQs listed to the right. Check the ones you'd like to send to the PN and click geocaching>update. You'll see the PQs populated on the map. Now click the Sync button at the top of the screen. After sync does it's analysis, you can click on "Project Contents" and see everything that's ready to sync to the PN including your PQs. Just press the sync button again and you're good to go. When you go back to the PN you'll have do do the File>Open again to choose which PQ you want loaded in internal memory.

What price are you finding the 32GB for and where?

Just $7 more for twice the gig! That's a no-brainer. You can never have too much memory.

If I understand your post correctly, you expect to be able to use your Ique city maps on a new Garmin. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but you won't be able to do that. Garmin policy is purchased maps are tied to one device. Purchase a new Garmin unit and you'll have to purchase new maps from Garmin or rely on what's available for free on a site such as GPSFiledepot.

If your coords are as much as 500 ft off You may have inadvertantly changed the datum setting on your 40. Menu>Device Setup>Units: Datum Primary should be set to WGS84. One other possibility. Make sure when you mark the coords with the push pin button that you don't have the cursor on the 40 panned to another spot otherwise the coords recorded will be for that spot rather than your current location.

I'm aware GSAK can combine the 2 but thought it would be valuable to have the option of having them combined without the use of another program. I know there are some that don't care about the child waypoints although I don't quite understand why cachers wouldn't want a quick easy way to route to a cache's parking coords without having to manually enter them. Perhaps an option would be to add a check box in the PQ setup screen offering the ability to have the files combined or separate.

I'm sure this has probably been mentioned before but the search function here isn't the best. I would really like to see PQs contain the geocaches and associated child waypoints as one GPX file rather than two. I'm not a software guru so I don't know how difficult it would be pull off. I'd love to hear other opinions, negative or positive.

If you can afford it, yes go for the 60. It has a nicer easier to use UI and much better battery life. If you do go with the 40, you should get a coupon in the box for an upgrade to topo 9 for just the cost of shipping. If you don't get the coupon call Delorme directly and they will give you instructions on what you need to send them for the upgrade i.e. receipt copy and bar code from box. The upgrade to topo 9 is very important because it gives you the ability to update the 40's firmware to 2.8 which brings some nice new features. Also: Both the 60 and 40 come with more than basemaps. Topo has detailed maps of the US, Canada and Mexico. Those maps are also routable. You also get 5 region disks of detailed maps that are already "cut" which means they can be loaded directly to the 60/40 without having to even use the topo software.

It would seem the only models Delorme is going forward with are the 40, 60, and 60w. Although I would imagine any new FW that comes out for the 40 will also work with the 30. I know 2.8 is suppose to.

If the extra $120 wasn't an issue and didn't cause me any financial hardship, the PN-60. I think the better battery life and interface are are probably worth it.

Are you not seeing the standard set of Geocaching icons? Perhaps you can offer a little more detail.

If you are using Firefox 3.6 the plugin is broken. It works with Internet Explorer though... I believe that's only true if they are using a Delorme GPS receiver.

So Minimike2, You gonna let us know how things went? A lot of people have been using 2.7 and have geocaches on their device. If you're still not seeing them, something else is wrong.

IE and any version of FF before 3.6 Hopefully the issues with the newer versions of FF will be fixed soon now that Delorme's other new updates and product releases are here or about to be here.

With the batteries removed, hold down the power button for several minutes. If that doesn't help, leave the batteries out of the unit overnight.

The Colorado series is discontinued, the PN-40 is not (if that makes any difference).

If caches are only showing up as waypoints, you probably need to set your GPX preference on the website. Follow these instructions and then rerun your PQs. This corrects an issue created when Groundspeak added GPX 1.0.1 attribute functionality a while back. The PN-40 does not play well with GPX 1.0.1 and prefers the original GPX 1.0. 1- go to GC.com and click on YOUR PROFILE 2- then click on Your Account Details 3- scroll to the bottom of that page to Your Preferences 4- if it is set to 1.0.1, skip to step 10 5- click on change 6- find GPX Version Preference and change it to 1.0.1 7- click on Save Changes 8- click on change again 9- if the GPX Version Preference setting now says 1.0, go back to step 6 (yes really) 10- find GPX Version Preference and change it to 1.0 11- click on Save Changes 12- re-run the PQs that have the version problem, the new PQs should be OK

1. We won't know the full added capabilities of 2.8 until it's released. 2. I assume you need instructions for Topo 8 and not GSAK. Since I use GSAK these instructions are my best recallection. Note: Start with a clean slate, no caches or waypoints in internal memory of your PN-XX 1. Unzip the PQ. 2. Drag-n-drop the main geocache gpx file and child waypoint gpx file onto the map screen of Topo 8 3. Click on the "Exchange" button (PN-40 icon at top of Topo screen). 4. Select the GPX files you just brought into Topo from the left side of the screen and click send (one at a time). The PQ is now in internal memory 5. On the PN-40 go to menu>waypoints>menu>file>save as and give the PQ a name. It's now saved to the SD card. 6. Delete all geocaches/waypoints. Don't worry, the file will remain on the SD, it's just removed from internal memory. 7. Repeat all steps to load another PQ and continue the process for as many PQs as you can fit on the SD (lots). To open files from SD card: menu>waypoints>menu>file>open

If you don't care about any of the other possible new capabilities that 2.8 will bring then there's no need to update to it. FW 2.7 already provides the capability you just described.