clachan girl

very helpful ideas.. I'll try them all. Thank you. Sure beats manually entering them!!

This is SOO frustrating.. anybody have any ideas for me? When I bought my handheld a few months ago, I was able to download points from my computer right into my GPS.. The next time I tried it, it couldn't "find" a device. I checked the communicator.. updated it, etc. Then all of a sudden it was communicating.. I downloaded a few more sites.. Now its been a few weeks, and it won't find the device at all. I called Garmin support.. no hint of an ideas.. A friend thought perhaps the black blocker on the cable was an issue. I have tried 3 computers... 3 different cords.. no success. Any other ideas. Its not an option to return my handheld.. It works perfectly in every other way. Ideas.. please...

That's OK to have the names cut off.. at least I'd have the first few letters.. easier to locate than a list of GC's.. could I bother you to help me by giving me step by step instructions how to use the GSAK and macro to do this? Thanks.

Does anyone know if there is a way to have the geocaches that you load onto your GPS sort with the Name of the Cache rather than the Waypoint GC number?

Hi.. I have a new iphone.. I bought the Groundspeak software for $9.99 after I just bought the Geosphere software a few weeks ago When i go to a specific cache page and want to download this ONE page onto my phone, I click on "send to phone" and it tells me I need an account with Trimble Outdoors in order to access the listing.. So I set up an account for Trimble.. Now it says "The listing has been sent to your Trimble Outdoors Account and should be available for download on your phone." why doesn't it just go directly into the Groundspeak software that I just bought? And how do I now download it from Trimble?

DId you ever figure this out? If not, let me know, as I was able to figure out my problem... a trial and error thing on my own...

Has anyone else had difficulty with this? I had to trade in my first Explorist LE as it had another issue... since I've gotten my new one, my USB cord will recognize the unit some of the time, and then won't others. Is this the fault of the USB plug or my unit? Every single time I plug it into my computer, the unit will shut itself off about 6 or 7 times.. and then eventually stays on. But my PC will only recognize the unit about 1/2 the time.. today, it won't recognize it at all. I feel as if its not something I'm doing wrong as I've downloaded dozens of coordinates before. HELP!

There's not much to add to what's above...if you are going into the first GOTO screen, you should be able to toggle between nearest and alphabetical sorts with the left-right movement of the joystick. If you chose nearest, you work your way through the menu to select the center point of your sort. If you choose different center points, you *should* get different sorts. As an experiement, choose nearest, either My POIs or Geocache Pts, and then chose cities. Say OK to the default entry (I get 100 Mile House in Canada), and click again to accept. Does that change your sort order? I have to suspect that both of you are inadvertently doing something differently in the process to keep winding up with the same sort order. It would seem that the only other explanation is that something is broken--which just seems an unlikely thing. "Unlikely" still means "possible" though... I appreciate the experiment with "100 Mile House" city.. then accepted it.. 1) it didn't change the order 2) now I have "100 MIle House" plus a couple of other "POIs" listed below the menu that says "Nearest to: Position, Cities, other"... how do you delete those? Maybe I should try to reset the entire system? Do you think that's possible? Necessary?

thanks for your opinion... i've tried the silly thing in various positions, but the sort never varies.. When I choose the option of sorting it by "other" and choosing the POI, it just kicks me back to the list of caches that are listed. how do I re-install the firmware?

yeah.. the distances vary.. some the caches at the bottom are closer in distance than the ones that sort at the top. Its not even in alphabetical order either...

I know it sounds straightforward.. and yes, I know that you click right or left to get it alphabetical or nearest, but the order of the caches never seem to change... it asks me if it is nearest to "position" -- I would expect that to be from the position that I currently am in... but the order never changes, even when I go to a cache... it stays in the same "nearest" order as when I turn my GPS on at home..

This Magellan that I bought has not been too user friendly, but I'm finally getting the hang of it.. but there is one frustrating thing. I have downloaded a number of caches onto my GPS, and even when I click 'nearest to position', it still kicks back to 'alphabetical'. Does anyone have a solution for this?

what kind of built-in features would I be looking for in a GPS? If I don't know if it, does that mean it probably doesn't have any? I am fairly certain the 500 has some kind of auto-averaging feature although I have not used one. Check your manual. It takes readings over time and automatically averages all of them - Leave it for 10-15 minutes for good accuracy readings. 10-15 minutes... i guess i need to be a bit more patient.. thanks for all your input.. will try that next time.

what kind of built-in features would I be looking for in a GPS? If I don't know if it, does that mean it probably doesn't have any?

anywhere from 30' to 100'.. way past the tree by the trail that its behind...

I have a new Explorist 500 that I am happy with.. I find the satellite reception in the forest is outstanding, but I am totally frustrated when it comes to marking a specific spot when I plant a new cache. I wait for the 'accuracy' rate to settle once I stop walking.. I mark it, and then I walk away and use the "go to" feature, and I'm WAYYY off... I mark it 4 or 5 times.. and then average them out... still very unhappy with the coordinate I'm leaving for my new cache. Any suggestions?

Thanks for responding. my gps recognizes my computer. i can download gsak to my gpsr. when i try to brings it up on the screen no waypoints or caches show up any Ideas to try. Byron I use the "magellan geocache manager" that the gps came with. Did you try that program? I'm not familiar with gsak. The MGM is a simple program once its installed and is insync with your gps... maybe you should try that.

hi.. i've got an explorist 500... what specifically do you need to know? Are you getting your computer to recognize it when you connect it?

sometimes i feel like such a loser when I can't find a simple cache.. especially when someone logs "i've seen one like this before". What is the protocol for asking the owner or someone else that has found it for a hint.. a clue.. of any kind. Has anyone found one on a water drain grate before? Is there something I should be looking for that is done over and over again.. and I'm too naive to know?

Having the same problem....used to see the icons, now nothing. What did you do to solve this? I'll be happy to have the stick pin problem, as long as I see something indicating geocaches! This is what I did which gave me the 'stick pins' -- When I'm on my account page in the geocaching webpage, there is a column on the right hand side.. go down and under "google mapping features" click on "download geocache browser in Google Earth" -- "open" it, rather than save it, and it should open google earth and add the stick pins. If it doesn't, make sure that when you're in Google Earth that your "Geocaching Network KML" (under Places) is checked off. If you're not happy with the pins, check out this link to a discussion that was had on March 10th in this same forum -- I didn't bother with it, as I'm not too unhappy with the stick pins.. as I said, better than nothing. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...hl=google+earth Hope that helps.

check out the thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...hl=google+earth This discussion started on March 10/07 under the "General Geocaching Discussion/ Geocaching Topics/ Google Earth Question" (in case the link doesn't work) Hopefully it can help you out...

figured it out.. but I have the stick pin problem like others do with this Google Earth version... better than nothing.

I used to have all the cache icons come up automatically when I went to a location on google earth.. now i can't get any to come up. I have downloaded the newest version. Is there something I need to do to make them appear?