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I don't know if you have to have Garmin but I find the Delorme PN-20 to work great for caching. They can be had for $199.99 refurbed by TigerGPS. Got mine about 2 weeks ago and love it for caching, hiking and biking. I too was looking for a new Legend, 60, 76cx, etc. The Delorme comes with mapping (Topo and Street) for the whole U.S.

Mike91911, the almanac isn't downloaded by PC, basically it's the satellite location information built into the PN-20. Every GPS has to have this for different satellite locations throughout the US and World. It just took mine about 15 minutes the first time and a couple minutes on occassion a few times after that. Usually it's very quick though to pick up satellite acquisition. Really no problem at all. Unit has been very accurate after the first initial couple days. The battery usage by the other poster has to be a joke. I use mine a tremendous amount and consistently get 10-12 hours easily with heavy usage. You can send it in to Delorme for repairs if there is a problem like that (1 year warranty) but I highly doubt this happens. Oh, and I mainly use Alkaline Duracells. Rechargeables will probably get you more life. Hope this helps somewhat. Good luck with the unit. As you can tell, I really like mine.

To answer Locator100's question. I take my Pocket Queries (.gpx file that I receive once a week from Geocaching.com and import them into Topo 7.0 (included when you purchase a PN-20). Once in Topo 7.0 I hook my PN-20 up (USB cable) and do an data exchange from Topo 7.0 to the PN-20. If you import a .gpx file you will have the cache description and hint on the PN-20. Very nice for paperless caching. Once the cache or caches are found you can change the icon from closed treasure chest to open and easily delete them if you want. The whole process of getting the .gpx to putting them on the PN-20 is very quick and simple.

Mike, I'll be honest. The first few days with this new GPS (have had a Explorist 210 for 4 years) took a little while to get used to. The original slow acquisition times put me off but after a couple days everything seemed to work great. I think the satellite almanac takes a while to get downloaded at first. The biggest downfall of this machine (which is fixed with the PN-40 supposedly) is the sometimes slow screen redraws. Some redraws are really quick while others will take a while (aerials & USGS quads). I load 500 caches onto mine and it seems to rebuild the list quickly. Good Luck! Also, the screen is a little small but the resolution is awesome!

Paperless caching on the PN-20 is great as long as there are no imbedded pictures (none of the GPS's like these anyway) or the cache description isn't too long. I have found quite a few caches in the 10 days of owning the PN-20 and the cache descriptions were of great help but I have found some that get cut off (I think there is a limit on the description page on the PN-20). Delorme's site says 800 characters. Seems like it should be plenty for the majority of caches. It's a great option at $199.99 refurbished. I love mine!

Mike, I also bought one of the Refurbished GPS's from TigerGPS.com (don't know if that is where you got yours). I had been wanting one for a while and finally seen these deals come up ($199.99) and just had to jump on it. They look (at least the one I got) brand new and after having it 10 days now, it's great. The package comes with a video on PN-20 and Topo 7.0 usage and transfer. I would check that out first. Loading the pre-cut maps is very simple. At first I was having problems getting it to acquire satellites but no more. If I hook it up to my desktop computer I just disable the GPS and the slow acquisition times seem to be a thing of the past. Have found about 8 caches with this thing so far, hiked about 10 miles, biked a bunch and have had no problems. Paperless caching works great too! As embra said, check out Delorme's forum for some great help. Welcome to the PN-20 ownership!

I was also considering a Garmin Venure Hc. I had a Triton 400 for about a week and it seemed to track well and pick up sats well but I was not impressed with the screen and basemap. I had NG topo on it but the screen just never seemed bright enough to be easily seen. The Triton did do the paperless caching thing but the caching on it seemed very limited as far as selecting points on the screen and trying to goto them. I look at TigerGPS.com about once a week and seen this refurbed PN-20 so I called Tiger and they said they were in great shape and completely refurbed by Delorme. They come with a 60 day refund (minus 10% restocking) and a full 1 year warranty from Delorme. I will use mine for biking, hiking, caching and just having it around. The whole package is high quality. The button layout is so easy to figure out. I have had mine for about a week and I love this thing. I wouldn't type this much if I didn't think this thing was a great GPS at a great price. Get It!

I purchased a refurbed PN-20 from TigerGPS and I'm amazed at how nice the screen looks. The screen is kind of small but the color and resolution are awesome. I also have a Garmin etrex and an Magellan Explorist 210 and they will be either sold or going to my kids. TigerGPS sells these like new units for $199.99 with everything a new one comes with. Love it. Maps are fantasitic. For the price you can't go wrong. Best deal (in my opinion) in the handheld, geocaching, hiking, biking GPSr world. Caches are fairly simplily added into the PN-20 by Topo 7.0 (which comes with the package). There are so many ways to add trails, POI's, caches, boundaries, aerials, topos, Satellite images! At higher zoom levels there is some slow down on the map screens while moving at highway speeds but while hiking or biking I have had no problems at all. Hope this helps It's a great deal.

I recently bought a refurbished Delorme PN-20 from TigerGPS and it comes with full street and topo mapping of the U.S., 1 GB SD card and reader, $100 of free downloads from their web site. It's been awesome at $199.99 compared to $349.99 brand new. Love It. I've been contemplating getting one of these based on their great forum, maps and support but didn't want to spend over $250.00. This has been a great GPS. Much better than my old Explorist 210, Map 330 and Garmin etrex.

SOLD!

Sara, you can send me a PM along with your email address and I'll send a couple pics. I also prefer paypal. I've used paypal a couple times and it seemed to work smooth. Just send me a PM if you get a chance. The unit is very lightly used and works well. Batteries last a long time in it.

I'm lowering the price on the etrex yellow to $30.00 and the price on the Ipaq 3950 Pocket PC to $70. I will include the cable that connects the etrex to the Ipaq if bought together. Can be bought seperately also. I will pay half the shipping cost. Both items work great seperately or together.

I have for Sale an pre WAAS etrex (yellow and in great shape). Has found many caches and seems every bit as accurate as my WAAS enabled Explorist 210. The etrex yellow has no mapping but is great for a basic geocaching GPS. I bought the GPS for my son and I will be giving him my Explorist 210 and upgrading to a Delorme PN20 (always wanted one). I am also selling an Ipaq Pocket PC model 3950 also. This was used for Cachemate, NG Pocket Topo, GPSSonar, Oziexplorer and as an tracking device with the etrex attached. I have the cable that goes from the etrex to the Ipaq also. I would like to get $120 for both or I can seperate. I would like $40 for the etrex and $80 for the Ipaq. The Ipaq screen is easlily seen in direct sunlight (at least to me) and has a very fast processor. Wife says both have to go before I buy a new one. I currently own too many electronic gadgets. Thanks for looking!!! Oh, I'll split shipping. I also have a bike mount for the etrex but it's in useable but rough shape.

Looks like amazon has the Delorme pn-20 for $279.00. Seems like lowering the price usually means a new model is coming out. These ought to sell like hotcakes for fathers day.

I ordered NG Topo! Maps from swiftmaps.com last year and they were $68.00 + shipping. Pretty cheap. Awesome service.

SOLD

Well I thought I had a buyer for this nice PDA but it didn't pan out. I'll try dropping the price some more. Let's try $60.00. That's shipped to Continental US. Information pertaining to the PDA is in some of the earlier posts so I won't list it here. Wife said I have to many caching toys (4 gps's and 2 PDA's) so this one has to go.

Doing one final price drop on this nice Pocket PC PDA. Let's try $78.00 including ground shipping in the continental USA. You can do a search on the net for hp Ipaq 1940 or 1945 and get all the specs. Unit comes with Pocket PC 2003 Pro OS. Unit works fine and I haven't had any problems with it since I've had it. I've loaded GPXSonar and GPXView so someone can get started paperless caching right a way. Just download Pocket Queries from Geocaching.com into the PDA and your ready to go.

Dropping price to $85.00 including shipping. Again, really nice for paperless caching as well as many other things.

Sorry, I should have explained it better. The unit has bluetooth connectivity but you would have to purchase a seperate bluetooth GPS unit to use the PDA for caching/road/trail navigation.

hp Pocket PC (iPAQ 1945) w/Aluminum Protective case and sync/charge cable for sale. Great unit for paperless caching. Unit comes with 58MB of RAM and has an SD card slot on top for lots more memory. Also has built in Bluetooth. Battery seems to hold a charge well. I used the unit for geocaching (cachemate/mapopolis/oziexplorer) for the last year and is in fine shape. I just don't use it anymore. I have taken off all the caching programs but they are available online to reload. GPXview is free and I think Cachemate is $20.00 to register. $95 includes ground shipping from within continental USA.

I have had an eXplorist 210 for several years and it has incredible reception. I Mtn Bike with it and leave it in a camelbak and track the trails I ride. Tracks are always complete with no signal loss gaps (very heavy tree cover). I also have the older Garmin etrex that loses signals quite often in heavy cover but I'm sure the H model is better that the standard etrex though.

This question may have been brought up on another topic but I was wondering if anyone knows if the existing NG Topo! series is usable with the new Triton. I have NG Topo! for MO and would love not to have to buy another mapping program to get these maps into the new Triton. Magellans website talks about 2 new programs that look identical to my Topo! If the NG Topo! isn't compatible I'll stick with my Explorist 210 for a while longer. Triton looks great though. NG Maps are extremely nice.

If your TOPO USA 3D is still available, I'd be interested in it. I have a Explorist 210 and have been looking for this program.

Seems like there are two different kind of NEMA reading sequences. Topo! Pocket recommends one type (can't remember) but the other one worked for me. Give Pocket Topo! some time. It's a decent program. Can't load waypoints into it though. I use Pocket Topo! for profiles and quick distances and I use Mapopolis for my routing.