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kwcahart

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  1. Just like Strava and Map My Ride bicycle apps, if you don't stop the unit from recording at the end of the ride, you will get phony results. I forgot to turn off Strava at the end of a bike ride last week, got in my car and drove home. Guess what, my average bike ride speed was about 62 MPH! I wish! And the distance was way way off, because I didn't stop the recording at the end of the ride. I see that as operator error, not a bug.

  2. The 62s I have looks like the letters on the buttons just dissolved. It looks terrible and some of them you can't read at all. I contacted Garmin Support, they replied almost instantly, told me the unit is in warranty and they gave me an RMA number to send it in. Very good support in my opinion, thanks Garmin. Anyone else have the letter/button problem or is it just mine? The letters have just totally worn off several of the buttons!

  3. I just had a Garmin Etrex Legend given to me. I bought a serial/USB cable from monoprice and I still can't get the computer to even see the Garmin. I'm using Firefox Mozilla and Windows 7, any suggestions? I have hooked it up turned off, on, and hooked it up then turned it on, off and back on, no recognition at all. I have the interface set to Garmin Serial. Help!!

  4. Blackrose I need some help please. I downloaded a map from garmin.osm....... and then loaded it onto the microSD card in my garmin 450T. The GPS does not see any maps on the card. Any suggestions. Anyone?? I extracted the map right from the garmin.osm site to the microsd card, and it cannot see the map. I'm going from memory but I think it downloaded the map as a gpsmapsupp or something like that.

  5. I used a Garmin 450 in Ireland, Scotland, and England two years ago. Very easy to find caches without a map and we used a Garmin 255 nuvi for car navigation. While in Ireland be sure to find the Earthcache "Giants Footsteps". Very cool. I may have the name a little wrong, but you will find it, not very many Earthcaches in Ireland. What a beautiful country. Beautiful people.

  6. You won't find many geocaches if you stay off unpaved roads where I live. 99% of ours here are on "unpaved" roads, unless you go downtown San Antonio which I certainly shall NOT do. I would rather cache on unpaved roads than a busy Hiway or subdivision anytime, anywhere. Just my humble opinion of course. Some people don't have much choice.

  7. Yes Sir, you are right. I downloaded EasyGPS just to see if I could load caches to my 76cx, and it worked fine. I now have something to use until the Police find my 450T or I buy another GPS. This old 76cx is in my opinion still one of the best they ever made, if it would do "paperless" I would still be using it.

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