TeamAldridge

I don't think the industry had much choice in the matter in regards to chipsets. SiRF had a series of patent issues and were recently gobbled up by another company. I'm sure the GPSr manufactures want to ensure they have a chipset maker that is free of the excess baggage. That being said it doesn't always mean that it's the best thing for us consumers.

I haven't had that issue at all with mine. Are you using the official garmin or just a generic one?

To me, the device seems to serve the purpose of what I already do. I take my older etrex, and fill it up with caches. I haven't updated it in forever. What I do is hand it to my kids when we're caching so that they can follow the arrow. I really don't think that it is meant to be an only unit, and if it is just a starter unit, as implied by "jr". After seeing the manual and quick start guide I feel that confirms it for me.

I just download the free utility zipeg and open up the .exe file with it. Extract the gupdate.gcd and place it in the Garmin folder and reboot it.

Can't you see it... the ammo can is on the OTHER side of the tree. It must be his first cache.

I hope you visit the forums often. Your posts are very entertaining. Even if you do have the worlds most accurate GPSr, the rest of us are playing with far less accurate GPSr units so your GPSr wont ever put you on top of the geocache (except by luck). And if you think there's no difficultly in finding a cache when you have coordinates, I suggest you run a pocket query of your 500 nearest caches, sort them in descending level of difficulty and work down the list. My guess is that you wont get very far through the list. Not every cache is a large ammo can sitting under a pile of sticks. Well he has ZERO caches in his profile, so I'm guessing he's too busy running highly elaborate tests on his military grade BB storm. On a side note, this thread isn't productive to anyone, maybe a mod can lock it.

I've come across one that wants to host the tonight show.

I would venture it's in the Pacific Northwest seeing is that's where geocaching began. Just my thought on it, I have no evidence whatsoever to support that however.

Unfortunately that doesn't help if the cache owner hasn't logged on in some time. Someone has to allow you to adopt it first. There's one that I would like to adopt, but I have no way to contact this person.

My mistake, add another $50. Anyways this is getting way off topic. Have you actually FOUND any caches with it? I have no doubt that you can, but your insistence that this is the be all end all device and that other units are basically junk is juvenile and unfounded. Now, about those new satellites, has there actually been any new birds activated? I know I know, don't feed the trolls... but I have to add, directly from otterbox.com: Notes: Case NOT protected against water. Will provide some added protection against drop, bump and dust. NOT intended for protection against water intrusion.

I seriously doubt this. Doubt all you want man, it's a fact. Most of the time it's about 3 feet. But about 25% of the time in open areas it is accurate within 12-14". If you don't believe it then I suggest you simply go to you local Verizon store and verify it for yourself. I'm very happy to hear that it reports that it's accurate within 12-14". When you lose your phone, email, internet browser, and gps in the drink, let me know how that's working for you. I have no doubt that you have success with your BB, but to each their own. Please don't allow your fanboyism to get the best of you. I really don't feel like paying $40 extra a month (if you're including cacheberry) for an all in one device. That's almost $500 a year. No thanks...

Well, I thought maybe it was made using a blow-molding process, but that's just an educated guess. I'm really not sure, but I wondered the same thing.

As far as merging GPX files on OS X goes, I just use GPSBabel for that. I'll take my PQs and merge them into one file to save space and get rid of the redundant caches.

You can do as Motorcycle_Mama suggests, but if you still want to use GSAK to manage and filter your caches there is the Colorado Export macro that can be found here. This will do what you want, I've used it on my Oregon and it works great (but honestly 99% of the time I just do as MM suggested).

For the Mac the internal drive for the Oregon should show up as GARMIN or something similar. Being a Mac user myself I can tell you that it's much easier if you're a premium user. You'll have the pain of setting up your pocket queries once and then be done with it.

You may also want to double-check your settings and ensure that you have selected NiMH in the Setup -> System menu. I use Sanyo Eneloops or other type of the Hybrid NiMH's and get good battery life (the Meijer brand PowerCell actually work very well and they're cheap).

Make sure you check today for the day of the week to run. If you don't do that the pocket query will not run.

I just thought I'd add my 2 cents on this. My local Meijer has a charger and 4 LSD batteries under the PowerCell name. The batteries are 2100mah and last just as long as my Sanyo Eneloops. The charger itself is just a rebadged Camelion BC-905a charger that charges the cells individually. It's cheap at only $15-20 with 4 LSD batteries and it works great.

Thank you for the quick response, you guys are good!

Well when I redid the PQ in unzipped form it came through. I don't know if that was the case or the fact that I sent an email to them referencing this topic.

Yep, same here, I'm going out of town and set up a new PQ. I hope it comes through within the next hour, or no caches there for me.

The limit is 2000 caches, but there's also a limit of 200 gpx files.

I've had really good luck with the low self discharge batteries that they sell. I'm using both Sanyo Eneloop 2000mah and the Meijer PowerCell 2100mah batteries. I was out from 11:30 to 8:30 doing some pretty heavy caching and my batteries were still going strong with 2 bars. I do cache for the most part with the backlight off, and I didn't have it plugged in while in the car today.

Two hours . . . a modern day record!!! Most spend weeks and still can't make up their minds. I'm sure he'll like the Oregon. Yep - that's quick. I felt like I rushed my decision - took me almost 2 weeks before pulling the trigger. . . of course today the Oregon 400t went on sale for $399, about $65 less than I paid before rebate. So is the way of technology Also - I'm still not sure on the nuMap updates. The link provided above does say in the compatibility that it includes the Oregon 400t but on the Requirements page says "This map update can only be used to update the preloaded maps that came installed on your Garmin device." so I wonder if this means that it will be a lifetime update for the Topo maps (not that useful IMO). If however it gave and updated CN maps - well worth the price. My understanding from Garmin is that you need to purchase the full edition of CN, and then you can purchase numaps for the lifetime updates.

I'm using an Oregon 300. Actually as of today the Oregon 400t is only $350 after the $50 rebate at REI. It will be on sale until May 10th. Of course I was about a week to late to get that deal, and I paid that for my 300.