FiveNines

I'm not sure what you are asking. 30 ft is within the 95% CEP of a consumer-grade handheld GPSr. You won't get a location to within a few inches you know. That's what makes geocaching fun. If your GPSr took to straight to the cache, what's the point? You have to search for it within that 30 ft circle using the clues you have and your knowledge of the terrain. Your HCx is a high-sensitivity receiver. As such it will receive multipath signals that a lesser-sensitivity receiver would ignore. That causes the position to move around a bit more than a receiver with lesser sensitivity. It's an engineering trade-off. You want a high-sensitivity receiver -- you have to put up with multipath. You want only signals direct from the satellites -- you will completely lose reception when you don't have a clear view of the sky. My old Legend (Blue) loses contact indoors, in a car, in an urban area, or in the woods. When it is in an open area the waypoint it points to is stable and not moving around within the 30 ft circle. It may be off just as much as the HCx mind you -- just that it seems more stable and the waypoint drifts at a slower rate. The HCx waypoint drifts around quite a bit faster within the 30 ft circle, but it has waypoint averaging, can get reception indoors, in a car, in town, in the woods -- anywhere really. It's something I put up with to have a high-sensitivity receiver.

I can't duplicate your problem. What settings do you have under "Routing Setup"? Are you selecting the waypoints in "GPS on" mode (actively tracking satellites) or "GPS off" mode (not tracking them)?

I've never actually used either service, so I may be wrong, but I believe the answer to both your questions is "yes." Call up (or visit) a local Verizon or Sprint store and find out for sure. I looked into the Verizon service a while back, but I never ended up subscribing ($5 per month) and just used my Nuvi instead.

Given that you would have to connect the GPS receiver to a data-delivery service, you would have to attach the GPS receiver to a cell-phone or something similar. So what you want already exists. It's called VZ Navigator in the Verizon Wireless world. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/turnbyturn.jsp There's also a Sprint version. http://www.nextel.com/en/solutions/gps/navigate.shtml And others.

It's a little hidden. Here are some screen grabs from my B&W Legend, which should have the same set-up. Go to the main menu. And select the icon to the left of the X icon at the top of the menu bar. Select it with the click stick and the Owner info page will open. Enter your info there, and select the "Show At Power-up" button and there you go. Your info will be on the welcome screen. I recommend giving all the info as shown above so someone can return it if it is ever lost.

Under Main Menu->Setup>Altimeter be sure that you have selected Variable Elevation under Barometer Mode.

No. 2.40 for Software, 2.30 for GPS SW.

You mean this screen? As you can see above no mention of MTK on mine. The "Device Name" field is blank.

That is true. Here are the two welcome screens I get. No mention of MediaTek. Here's an older welcome screen from GPS Passion for comparison.

You can get "Garmin Trip and Waypoint Manager" for about $25 and it comes with it.

Garmin Nuvi 350 can do this. Under "Where to" scroll down and select "Coordinates." Then you enter the coordinates and you can choose to save it or to "Go" to it and have it autoroute you to that location. If you saved it, you can autoroute to it from the "My Locations" items later at any time.

The elevation measurement is taken to be ground level. For your GPS to match, as it appears to be held at about 2 meters off of the ground, it should read 662 meters, no? Otherwise it's 2 meters off.

I found this link while searching for the solution to this problem. http://www.fixya.com/support/t206687-scree..._thin_line_from It explains a lot if true and why it happens to multiple units at the same time. But then there's this. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...t&p=1834086

Actually, they were both set to "lock on road". I don't want that, do I? On the other hand, they were the same, at least. No, you don't. Turn that feature off when you are geocaching. It's possible one has a more vigorous "lock on road" algorithm or a differrent map it's using to compute the location of the road. Try again and they should be pretty much in agreement with "lock on road" turned off.

Is one of them set to "lock on road" under map set-up?

I have the Legend (classic blue) and have had the exact same problem for the last few weeks. I thought the unit had gone bad since it's several years old. But it happened to me exactly as you describe it. Same vertical line on the right and all. I had firmware 3.70 and thought maybe if I downgraded to 3.50 it would change, but it had the same problem needing a battery reset. At one point the unit came back to life having gone through a "hard reset" with all my waypoints and tracks deleted. But most times it simply needs a restart and it recovers gracefully. I put 3.70 back on it and it still blanks out as you described it -- yesterday evening in fact.

You didn't overwrite the base map when you added the Metroguide maps. You added the MG maps to the Legend in addition ot the base map. If you turn off the display of the MG maps, you can see the base map. If you ever need the MG maps for more detail you can turn the display of them back on. To turn off (or on) the MG maps go to the map screen, select "Setup Map" from the menu, and then you will see each MG data set. You can click on the check mark to uncheck it. Scroll down for each MG data set you have and uncheck each one. Return to the map view and you will see just the base map. If you need to see the MG maps again, re-do those steps and re-check the parts you want to see. Simple.