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My first DNF was a bummer, My wife and I looked for an hour, the area had been cleaned up and bushes trimmed so I thought the cach was found by the workers, wrong, found the next day by someone else. I will usually go back and and attempt to find again. This was on a trip so it will be awhile before i look again. Hurt, not abit the worst day of caching is better than the best day of work.

I have both the Groundspeak app and Igeocacher. First let me say the iphone 3G GPS does not work without wifi or towers, at least mine don't. I hear it may show a blue pin but no maps, second I have found the 3g accuracy I have seen is average 56' at best and a lot of 150' but I have found caches with the 3g. Now regarding the programs, with Igeocacher you can down load searches up to 500 like I can in my 60GSX. Igeocacher works well but is expensive to purchase. I really like the Groundspeak product especially you can download caches wherever you are with wifi or 3g, this is a great feature because I always wind up somewhere where I didn't plan without the GPS loaded. So Both programs are good in my opinion, they go about it a bit differently, but If I hadn't bought Igeocacher first before the Groundspeak product came out , i would have been happy with the Groundspeak product. Iphone 3G, WOW, don't leave home without it. I hope this mini review helps. John

And would you give me a hint where the appropriate forum is located, I looked at all the others and none appeared a appropriate as this one.

1. GPS .....Garmin 60CSX 2. Paperless Device and Software MOTOROLA Q----HTML EXPORT FROM GSAK 3. Software for downloading Waypoints .....GSAK 4. Maps GARMIN TOPO

I have 2 TOMTOM's 1 in my palmT3 which I don't use anymore and a TOMTOM GO and am very happy with it. for geocaching I have a Garmin 60CSX and love it.

Interesting. I had sent off an e-mail to smittyware and got back a reply from Brain with a link to a section called "smartphones". This would seem to suggest that he is supporting windows mobile smartphones. What was your experience? Maybe you meant mobile phones which are not smartphones. Why the negative, How about sharing the link to the smartphone data then we can all have it? please TIA John For those with a Q can get help here. Works great! GSAK

Interesting. I had sent off an e-mail to smittyware and got back a reply from Brain with a link to a section called "smartphones". This would seem to suggest that he is supporting windows mobile smartphones. What was your experience? Maybe you meant mobile phones which are not smartphones. Why the negative, How about sharing the link to the smartphone data then we can all have it? please TIA John

Would you please explain how this is done , I have a 60CXS and use gsak. Thanks in advance If you use the Search feature of this forum, you'll find a gazillion threads covering this in detail, but here's the short version: On the "Send Waypoints to GPS" dialog screen, enter the appropriate tags in the "Waypoint Description Format (comments)" field. (The Export to GPS dialog has a similar field.) You only have to do it once; GSAK will remember your selections until/unless you change them. In my case, I have %code %typ1 %con1 %Dif/%Ter %by. OK, I lied about including the hint (I use my PDA), but that would be the %hint tag (if you don't understand GSAK tags, read the program's help section on them, which explains all the options). So, for the Panda's Pleasure cache in my area, for example, the Note field shows: GC1209Q T M 3.5/1.5 WRASTRO. That's the GC number (since I use Smart Names for the main Waypoint Name), cache type (traditional), size (micro), D/T, and hider. There is a character limit on what you can have in the Notes field on the GPS, which is not much more than what I use. So, long hints will be cut off if you include them. Hope that helps, and doubtless others will chime in, too. I'm headed out of town for a 4-day weekend to do some orienteering (and a little caching on the side) in Kamloops, BC. Woo hoo! Thanks for the help, have a great roadtrip!

Would you please explain how this is done , I have a 60CXS and use gsak. Thanks in advance