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Not so! Do your homework.

Here's an excellent web site explaining how to use a compass.

I would recommend Mapopolis for driving directions and Vito Navigator ll for geocaching.

This unit has a hardware upgrade. The firmware version 3.0 will not work in the older/other models. There was some discussion on this on the eTrex yahoo group as well as in the sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup, but nobody has come up with any link to advertising of this unit. Seems a bit secretive.

Jamie Z is correct. Size matters. If I had my camera with me I'd show you a quad helix for a marine receiver that's bigger than my Garmin Map76S altogether. With the two types of antennas of the same "aperture", there is no user noticeable difference whether under tree cover or not. When an external antenna is used, the internal one is disabled. The current flow of the external antenna is used to determine when it's connected. With a patch antenna the unit must be held horizontally for best reception and I suspect that most people don't do this. With a quad helix antenna, you have more leeway with respect to orientation of the antenna. Holding a patch antenna at a 45° angle will cause much more signal degradation than doing the same with a quad helix.

User's have no control over that part of the page. This is something Groundspeak would have to work on if their really concerned about it.

It's the same thing, just a different way of looking at it. I mark my present location and then edit it to the location that I really want entered. How is that any different than just entering a waypoint from scratch? You still have to enter the numbers.

As I said, G7ToWin works fine on the Map76S (a non-color model) as well as most other Garmin models.

G7ToWin will work on some Garmin models. I know it works on the Map76S

Yes, I thought that might be the problem as well, but if his computer doesn't have that font, then it should use it's default font. Perhaps he needs to change his default font to something he can read. I thought comic sans ms was pretty common as I have it on four different laptops at home and on my tower at work. I also use it in my e-mail and have never heard a complaint, but then not everyone uses html in their e-mail apps. I don't know of a list of acceptable fonts. Anyway, I just had a thought come to me out of the blue that you could use backgrounds in a table so I tried it out on the cache page. I'll probably switch back to the "normal" format.

Must be your settings. I have not specified any font size in my html.

Including your own I guess

Well, there is another option to get a background on your cache page as I have done on mine.

Buy a pocket pc with bluetooth and a bluetooth gps and then you have all the options you want. There are various apps for working with any map you want including freely downloaded USGS topo maps. See this thread.

You can use GPSBabel to convert the Ozi waypoint files to Garmin Mapsource files. Then open them in Mapsource and upload to your GPS'r. There's a nice Windows interface for using gpsbabel here.

Here's how the garmin maps look: Here's how an actual USGS map looks in Oziexplorer: And here's how the Ozi map looks on the PDA:

Garmin has just offered a $50 rebate on the Legend and some other models. Oops, just realized that is for the color models.

Not sure what you have but if you have a bluetooth gps and an Ipaq pocket pc (with bluetooth), then yes it will work just fine. You just need one of the various software options for your Ipaq that will make this work. I currently use Oziexplorer and Mapopolis but there are many other options.

You can get the data cable from GPSgeek for $7.45 The yellow eTrex is available for $89.99 from MegaGPS.

And you can specify the zoom level with the spn operator. http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=34.616%2C-...spn=0.025,0.025 The only problem is that they don't give a cross-hair or some other icon to actually show the exact location when using coordinates as input. I have e-mailed them suggesting to add this.

Here's my Map76S on a flight to Florida a couple years ago.

Sounds hokey to me. While the FAA is adding L5 to the current GEO's, it is on an entirely new frequency of 1176.45Mhz which we will not be able to receive on our single frequency receivers. We will continue to get WAAS corrections on the L1 frequency of 1575.42Mhz which is the same freq that the "regular" sat's transmit on.

Go here.

You need to use html tags. Here's an example: <img src="http://www.yourwebpage.com/yourimage.jpg"> Just do a google search on html and img and you'll get lots more info.

If your magnetic variation is set to auto, once you have a fix, it should be OK. The variation in Maine is quite large as compared to most of the rest of the U.S.