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Jamesonsdad

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  1. Got mine in the mail a few days ago. It's all already been said Tsun but I'll say it again anyways: They're great! Thanks!
  2. Yes it does have a USB connection that it can be powered with, but that plug opening is blocked by my car mount. Considered modifying the mount but thought I'd try finding a round plug cord first. Thanks for the input.
  3. Thanks for the link. It doesn't look like anyone has one to get rid of now so I'll have to buy new.
  4. I'm looking to buy a vehicle power cable for my new GPSMAP 76CSx. It takes one with a round plug and four pins. If you have one you're willing to part with maybe we can make a deal. Here's a picture of what I'm looking for: Same cable works for 60, 76, 90 and many others.
  5. I personally will go back and edit my DNF log. I date the text of the original entry and leave it unchanged. Then I add a dated found it entry below. I change the icon and date to the current date. Doing this documents my earlier attempt(s) and makes it possible for someone to go back and piece together the history of the cache if they are so inclined. If I make several failed attempts at a cache I document them all in one log entry with dates added in the text. I feel this is a much more "honest" way of logging a cache than one entry that says something like: "Third times a charm...." with no DNF logs at all.
  6. Thanks for all the responses. I guess I'll just wait longer and see what happens. Perhaps I'll run into this person on the trail or in a store, since we live within 5 miles of each other and ask them FTF whats up. Travel bugs and Geocoins in my opinion are some of the most exciting yet most misunderstood elements of the Geocaching game. I still remember finding my very first coin. It was shaped like a pair of lips instead of like a quarter. Right then I realized I didn't know squat about Geocoins. Of course that didn't stop me from slipping it into my pocket and then later placing it in another cache
  7. Just stumbled across this thread and boy I'm glad I did. These coins are, well, cool. Pre-order complete. Thanks for doing this.
  8. Hi all, I need some advice on what to do about a "situation". Here's the story: I left 3 new travelers in 3 new caches I placed back in August of this year. The same person took all 3 which was just fine with me. What has happened since isn't fine. This person logged all 3 into another cache. A quick visit to that cache's listing revealed that it contained dozens of travelers placed there by this same person. This raised my curiosity, but not any alarm, since I had met this person before and assumed they were on some kind of Southeastern US travel bug reallocation campaign and not doing any real harm. After a couple of days I visited the actual cache in question, and as I suspected it contained not one TB. Soon afterwards the TB's began being fetched from the cache by a relative of the person who put them there. Again, no alarm, they were just getting ready to move again, or so I thought. This person grabbed all 3 of my travelers on 8/25 and, unfortunately, has held them since. This person still has a total of 12 travelers they retrieved from that cache in their online inventory. It seems the family lost interest in Geocaching around this time since it was months before they logged another cache (Perhaps my hides were so mediocre they swore off?) but they both have been out in the woods again since and make visits to GC.com. I E-mailed a friendly letter some time back requesting that my travelers be placed in a cache, any cache, as soon as possible but heard nothing in reply. I put a lot of time and effort into two of the bugs, and the coin was a neat one that I wanted to share. I strongly disagree with comments posted elsewhere on this board stating anything you place into a cache is given away. That may be true of swag, unactivated coins and personal coins, but a TB or coin that has been activated and has a specific mission is not a trade item but property of it's owner entrusted to the geocaching community. Right now I'm in wait and see mode about my captive travelers. What do you all think? Is there anything I can or should be doing?
  9. Why not post a note on the cache log appealing to the next cacher to move the TB along?
  10. The Garmin Etrex Legend has a USB connection NOT serial. Change the settings from Com1 to USB and you will be in business. If this has already been suggested I apologize for the repeat. Jamesonsdad
  11. Just a follow up to my earlier post. The 2.60 software seems to have fixed the problem I had. The coordinates being off 20' N-S the first time I tried it seems to have been a coincidence. Since then any inaccuracy has been random and well within what I would call 'normal' based on terrain, signal strength, etc...
  12. Yes the Vista Cx and Venture Cx are enough the same that they take the same firmware. Here's the weird part, with 2.70 the deviation was 20' to the east. With 2.60 loaded the one cache I visited yesterday was 20' due south of the Venture's ground zero. E-W coordinates were now dead on. I need to do some more testing to see if it's consistent and then I'll go from there. Really not sure what my options would be-maybe an exchange from Garmin?
  13. I have the etrex venture Cx and also upgraded it right out of the box to 2.7. I'm a noob so I thought it was just my ability at first, but soon I realized that the coordinates were off on my unit more often than not. They are almost always off about 20' due east. To hunt a cache I find "ground zero" according to the venture and then move due west about 20' and start my search in earnest. As you can imagine, this makes hunting some caches a real pain. I just loaded the 2.6 firmware back in and will revisit some of my earlier finds to see if this issue has been resolved. Got my firmware here: eTrex Vista Cx Firmware
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