I know this thread was from 2012 but, I just wanted to personally thank Wadcutter for his valuable information! I have an original first gen Yellow Etrex that I used to find several caches and I love this little unit! It's basic but, it works. I just dug it out after who knows how many years to start geocaching again and I can't get my easygps to work with it. The oldest Etrex it shows is the Etrex 10 and it won't find a comm port either. I have the adapter and via USB it shows as comm4 but, easygps doesn't even give me that option. So, I thought I wouldn't be able to use it but, Wadcutter's instructions reminded me how to manually enter coordinates and I'm back in business! Yes, I have a much newer and better unit (595) and I'll use it to get me close via roads but, I want to use the Etrex for the hiking portion. I like the simple arrow and the trackback feature. Again thanks to Wadcutter! You really helped me out!
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I know this thread was from 2012 but, I just wanted to personally thank Wadcutter for his valuable information! I have an original first gen Yellow Etrex that I used to find several caches and I love this little unit! It's basic but, it works. I just dug it out after who knows how many years to start geocaching again and I can't get my easygps to work with it. The oldest Etrex it shows is the Etrex 10 and it won't find a comm port either. I have the adapter and via USB it shows as comm4 but, easygps doesn't even give me that option. So, I thought I wouldn't be able to use it but, Wadcutter's instructions reminded me how to manually enter coordinates and I'm back in business! Yes, I have a much newer and better unit (595) and I'll use it to get me close via roads but, I want to use the Etrex for the hiking portion. I like the simple arrow and the trackback feature. Again thanks to Wadcutter! You really helped me out!