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-Thanks. I finallyd did figure this out. It just seems rather absurd that you cannot view the field notes from the device itself.

I just received a Oregon 600 for Father's day and went geocaching. When I found a cache I typed in a few brief comments after hitting find. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to retrieve those comments. A little help please. Thanks

These maps are based on the same information as the Topo 2008 DVD. I was sorely dissapointed when I loaded these into my Etrex and found the same behavior for the roads. Called Garmin and they acknowledged the fact and said they would log my dissatisfaction. Now I use the free maps at GPS file depot. More contours and more accurate roads for free.

Magellan consumer division has recently been purchased by Mitac, a company that has been in the GPS business for a while. Before that a venture capitalist company called Shah enterprise acquired them, and did what a venture capitalist company typically does-squeeze every buck you can out of the acquisition and then dump it. Whether Mitac will make Magellan a company worth dealing with again ( at one time they had excellent customer service) remains to be seen. I do however agree that finally Magellan has removed most of the bugs that made the Triton next to useless.

Seeing the smooth raw tracks of the PN-40, even when it is obviouisly slightly off to the side of the path reminds me of the Magellan Sportrak, where there was constant averaging going on. Does anybody know if that is happening in the DeLorme units?

That's a great idea, except I'm pretty sure the base Map 76 does not take SD cards.

Once the maps are in mapsource and displaying on the screen select the map tool and then use it to only select the areas of the map you want to download to your GPS. You will see a running total of the amount of memory they take on the bottom of the map. Once you have what you want selected use the transfer-send to device menu selection and you are set. I don't know how many areas you will be able to select. In the US version the one chunk around Boston is over 16 MB.

Is aquarium sealant the same thing as silicone caulk?

Let's see- I bought a Legend HCx and a 10 dollar liquid filled magnetic compass.- Never needs calibrating- works even when the GPS batteries are dead, which is a real advantage if you are lost. Also cloud cover does not appreciably affect GPS- as they said above the frequency range was chosen just because of that- their are lots of other reasons why you could be having trouble including multipath off the lake.

Indeed the Sportrak will not see the WAAS satellites because the firmware has them pointing to the older ones and Magellan never provided an update. However, I am unaware of a fix. There are many people with both Sportraks and Meridians that would love to know of an easy fix.

People that have done testing have seen an affect on performance when units are close together. No idea why or if it happens with these units, but that is what others have found, so it is important to note when testing in case it changes the results. Based on your reply, you fall into the Expert Opinion Class. Modern receivers are designed not to generate energy in the frequencies they are trying to receive, for the obvious reason that it would interfere with the incoming signals. I would suspect the problem is that they physically block or attenuate signals from each other as much as causing RFI. The amount of electromagnetic energy from the transmitters that surround you ( commercial radio, cell phones, etc ) is probably much higher than that from the adjacent GPS unit.

The answer is it depends- which HCx- legend or vista and what version of firmware. The legend only detects direction by movement and older versions of firmware did not detect movement under 2 MPH. So if you have a legend you need to update the firmware. Even so, if you are moving very slowly it still will not react ( I think the new cutoff is about 0.7 MPH) As for the magnetic compass in the Vista- if working properly and turned on, that should point in the right direction assuming it is calibrated and you have it turned on. Personally I have a legend and use a 10 dollar liquid filled compass.

no According to Garmin tech support: " ... it appears ... that either the unit lost reception or you may have experienced what we call multipath where these units being High Sensitive GPS devices are continually trying to update the satellite information may have picked up a satellite bouncing off something as small as a leaf, a hill, a tree, a path or sidewalk, whatever it has hit." Let's be clear- the bug we are talking about is that the unit doesn't recover its accuracy after what ever the problem that caused it is removed. It requires a power cycle. Any of these highly sensitive units can get confused during multipath.

Although the error here is large, I don't know if it qualifies as the "bug" initially described in these discussions. It appears that the unit corrects it self over time. It could be simply caused by satellite locations or atmospheric phenomena. Remember the symptoms initially described are that even when good satellite reception is restored the error remains until the unit is power cycled, at which point the error drops in one large step.

Just because stop time is inaccurate does not mean you have lost signal. The initial etrex HCx releases were notorious for counting anything below two miles an hour as standing still. Take a look at the track points and see if they make sense. If some seem to be misssing, then you most likely do not have lock.

Add some terrain and a little more overhead cover, both of which would restrict the view of the sky, and variable terrain sufficient to to periodically slow your pace and I'm guessing that both the trip computer and the track log would have a lot more error in them. The bug is not that there is never error, but that once error occurs because of poor reception, it never recovers but seems to grow even when reception improves.I think if you are going to do some mild test like this, cover the gps with you hand for a few minutes and then remove it to see what happens.

Is it possible that all Etrex have the Bravo chipset, since all I've seen is Bravo 2 under the listings people have put here, and the Meditek copyright on the start up is just a red herring?

This has been discussed elsewhere in more detail. From the GPS passions website we have(http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=107346): Garmin has code names for thme : - Type B Bravo?? - Type M : Garmin MTK or Bravo?? - Type M2 : MTK - Type G : SiRFstarIII The question is, how do you tell what is in your GPS given that Garmin does its best to hide it? For the Nuvi they have discovered ways. I don't know how for the Etrex.

Why do you think Bravo is a Garmin Chip set? All three of my functioning gps units show some version of Bravo on the diagnostic page and the 76CSx is a SirFStar III chip. Garmin is never very forthcoming with what is in their GPS units, but if you read other forums you will see comparisons of performance between the Mediatek and Bravo chipsets is the same model GPS units. For instance: http://www.gpsreview.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4061 Also check out the forums at gpspassion.com

I don't think so. Hold down the click stick when you boot and see what it says on the diagnostic screen that comes up. Bravo is a Garmin chip-Mediatek is a -well- Mediatek chip.

I believe people have things reversed. The bravo is the original Garmin chip- they went from that to mediatek chip. For a discussion of that in the Nuvi line go here: http://www.gpsreview.net/forums/viewtopic....light=bravo+mtk

So why would a newer unit make a difference then? The statement doesn't hold water. The whole conversation is pretty much a non sequitur. It a software problem. - Our new units don't have that problem just don't go together. I think further conversations with Garmin are necessary to understand what the heck this means.

This effect has nothing to do with satellite lock or accuracy. Magellan's used to average data, so if you were moving it would always report you slightly behind where you really were, because of averaging the last N samples. This often caused one to overshoot the location you were going to, hence the need to "boomerang". Experienced cachers would slow down as they approached a cache to minimize the effect.

One thing you are complaining about is a problem with the Topo 2008 maps. The roads are often off by hundreds of feet. That has nothing to do with the 60CSX- suggest you download IBYCUS maps if you want accurate road placement.

This sounds very similar to early problems with the HCx series- couldn't detect speeds below 2 mph- now I thing I don't see anything lower than 0.7 mph but it still jumps a bit.