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Get a Garmin.

Shouldn't cost you more than $20 for a decent one. As for a cable being a cable, a USB->RS232 "adaptor" isn't an adaptor at all, and is much more than a cable. It's an actual peripheral, just like a modem, network card, etc. It uses power (supplied by the USB port) and requires a driver in order for the operating system to see and use it, just like the modem or NIC. In many cases, you do get what you pay for, but $30 is too much (IMHO). Keep shopping around. You could always try one of the cheap ones. It doesn't matter if it's not perfect, as long as it works for your specific application.

Get a Palm. (sorry, I couldn't resist )

Lemme guess...his last words were, "Hey, y'all, watch this!" Nope, it was "Red to red. Black to, um, er..." Nah, he'd never have gotten those mixed up. Along with having been wired exceptionally well upstairs, some of those wires were also crossed. He took his own life about 10 years ago.

That reminds me of a non-geocaching story... I used to have this friend. He was known amongst his peers as being the "mad scientist" type. Hands down, he was the smartest person I ever knew. Good with electronics, he built a tesla coil (largest in the U.S. at the time) for Knotts Scary Farm when he was 18. He was also very good with chemistry - so much so that he once had his house raided when a teacher found out he was (successfully) making nitroglycerin in his mother's kitchen. He was also arrested on the set of the Arsenio Hall show for "acts of terrorism" (tossing nitrogen triiodide crystals on the stage). Anyhow, this friend showed up at a party once. About half the people there knew him; some better than others. He walked in with a bowling ball that had the finger holes filled in and had been painted flat black. Sticking out of a small black cap on the top was about 8 inches of cannon fuse. You know the stuff - thick, green and very steady burning. He set the "bomb" down in the middle of the living room, took out a lighter, lit the fuse and RAN LIKE HECK out into the driveway. Everyone that only sort-of knew him followed him right out, genuinely terrified. Those that knew him better played along. The rest stood around looking like deer caught in headlights, wondering whether or not they should believe that the "bomb" was real. Of course, it was fake, but boy was that a great moment. I really miss Mike. He was one of the greats.

It's a micro if it's too small to trade McToys.

You could use your favorite text editor to combine the .loc files. Just open one up, select all the <waypoint>...</waypoint> data and paste it into the bottom of another .loc file, just after the last </waypoint>. With MapSource, you can select the items (waypoints, routes, whatever), hit CTRL-C to copy them to the clipboard, then paste them into another instance of MapSource. It's clunky and they really should support a better way of doing it, but it works. You should probably also check out GSAK. It'll do all that stuff and more.

Wise Up, Sucker! by Pop Will Eat Itself I am the Resurrection by the Stone Roses The first song I could find by the Blue Aeroplanes Possible substitution: Anything Anything by Dramarama

My, how things change...

I've never had a problem with the taste of the water in my Camelbak, even when it was brand new.

Check out Waypoint Importer.

The 60C is a great unit. Lots of bells and whistles, including some marine-oriented stuff (proximity alarm and whatnot). The autorouting works pretty well. It's only led me astray* once or twice, and I use it often. Keep in mind that whatever unit you get, you'll also need to spend around $100 on mapping software. * By "led astray", I mean that it's gotten "confused" and took me the long way to my destination, or it got into some kind of loop, where it'd calculate the route, find the route, then calculate the route again, find the route again, etc., until I turned it off.

Do you have any other serial devices you could use to confirm that the port works? My system has two serial ports, they're turned on in the BIOS and Windoze sees them, but when I try using them, they don't work. I ended up buying a USB serial port so I could sync my PDA. It later came in handy after I bought my Legend. I also use it with my 60C when I want to communicate with it with software that doesn't yet support USB. Anyhow, make sure that the port is working somehow, if you don't positively know already. Also (it has to be said; you'd be surprised), make sure that your GPSr is turned on, and that it's set to the appropriate protocol/baud rate. You could also try EasyGPS to see if it's able to see your GPSr.

Do you have any cookie or other blocking or security software running? If you have another computer available, you could also try entering it from that one.

GSAK is a nice program, but the *easiest* method is by far EasyMPS. Just right-click on GPX file and select "Open in Mapsource".

Yes. http://www.geocaching.com/about/logousage.aspx

You mentioned that you have a PDA - if it's serial, you need to make sure that the synchronization software is disabled, otherwise it has the serial port open and you won't be able to use any other device on that port at the same time.

I think the National Geographic TOPO series does the 3D graphics showing your track log. I don't own it, so I can't say for sure, but someone in my 4wd club posted a 3D image of one of our runs and I'm pretty sure he used NG TOPO to create it. For ariel photos and topo overlays, ExpertGPS ($60, free trial) is great; USAPhotoMaps ($0) is pretty good. If the difference between pretty good and great is worth the money for you, I'd suggest ExpertGPS.

Bret's advice is sound. But be careful using the Groundspeak logo (even modified). I know lot's of others are doing that, but Groundspeak is very cautious about how their logo is used. I'm not exactly sure what criteria they use. http://www.geocaching.com/about/logousage.aspx

If you did a one-time pq, you should have it within minutes (in my experience). Go to your pq page and double-check that there's a date/time in the "last generated" column. If it's been a while since it was generated and your e-mail address is correct, I'm not sure what to tell you. Couple more questions/possibilities.. How much space do you have available on your e-mail account? What format did you request it in? Did you opt to have the file sent in .zip format?

Transferring 500 waypoints to my 60C takes less than three seconds.

Spam filter? E-mail address still active/yours? Have you given it enough time (it can sometimes take a little while)? That's correct. AFAIK, GPX files are available only via e-mail or the link on the cache page itself.

Fry's is evil.