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Kevin's friends and family all thought that he needed treatment for his Unicorn delusions'

Maplins ( www.maplin.co.uk ) have the Garmin Foretrex 201 for £129.99. This is £154.94 at www.gpsw.co.uk. I think shipping is free for purchases over £30. I'm uncertain if these devices are available from the high street stores at this price. ( I know that there is another Maplins thread, but this device is not mentioned and is suitably on-message to the forum for a seperate thread ).

These as well ( although I've never used them so not a recommendation ). http://www.fingertech.co.uk/gps_geocaching.html

TomTom takes dd:mm:ss type co-ords. Take the decimal places at the end of the Geocache co-ords and multiply by 60 e.g. W 000° 12.893 60*0.893 = 53.58 so the TomTom co-ords would be 000°12'54" W Have a look at GPSTuner. This runs on the iPaq and is better than TomTom for the actual caching bit. TomTom is fine for getting to the approximate location. A word of warning though. Don't run TomTom3 and GPSTuner simultaneously because GPSTuner will crash in such a way that you'll have to reset the iPaq. Also, you can use Pocket Queies to download caches in the area you're interested in in GPX format. Copy this to the iPaq and use GPXSonar to view the caches on the iPaq. You can also use GSAK ( Geocache Swiss Army Knife ) to take the same file ( on your PC ) and export the data as a TomTom ov2 file. Copy the ov2 and the icon image to the TomTom directory on the iPaq, enable it in TomTom and it will show the caches on the TomTom map as POIs.

Awesome. Thanks for adding this feature.

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Excellent. I'll look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks all for the great information. Lots to think about but it does look like a go-er. I think I'll e-mail Garmin & Magellan about their Warranty policy. Many thanks again.

Looking for a partner for the Sisters Locationless cache ( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt= ) GC4226, who can do the necessary in Wilmington, Delaware. I have picture waiting for my side.

Owing to the stupidly high premiums we pay for stuff in the UK, I was thinking about importing a GPSr. A number of things occur to me : 1. Manual. This shouldn't be a problem as I could download a suitable manual. 2. Warranty. Are Garmin and Magellan units covered by a global warranty? ( I've had a look at their respective information and cannot see any obvious restrictions. ) 3. Basemap. Are the basemaps fully updateable to other areas? e.g US to Europe? Would the European basemaps be readily available? 4. Firmware. Would this be different? ( Looking at the Garmin & Magellan sites, it does not look to me as though the firmware is nationalised. ) 5. Any other software issues? OSGB & other datums? 6. WAAS/EGNOS? In effect, can it be made to be identical to a locally sourced unit? ( I'm aware of customs duties & VAT issues ( looking at it being a personal import ) ). Thanks.

Five reasons you should be wary of AOL - 1) They wrap your communications in their own protocol which means thing are a lot slower per connection speed with them than with another ISP. 2) You tend to get far more spam as spammers know that that is where the largest user base is and 'guess' AOL email addresses more than they will with other ISPs. 3) In AOLs 'attempts' to fight spam, they will reject valid email on your behalf. For example, I run my own mail server and I cannot send to any AOL user as they have blocked my mail server. This is not because I have an insecure server or because I send spam ( both of those reasons do not apply in my case anyway ) but because my perfectly legitimate server is on a dynamic address. Big crime isn't it? By doing this they are contravening internet rules, but they do not care. Secondly, if these forums ( Groundspeak ) were to notify forum members by email of new messages to threads that they had subscribed to and traffic reached a certain level, AOL would very soon block all email from grounspeak to all AOL users as they would consider Groundspeak to be spamming! They have done this to my certain knowledge to another forum to which I subscribe. In that case they refused to discuss the matter with the forum owner and the forums then had to tell all it's registered users to update their profile with a different ( non AOL ) address. 4) In June this year it was revealed that an AOL employee had sold the AOL user database to spammers. Do they really deserve your money if they do not have sufficient safeguards to prevent this? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/aol_spam_insider/ 5) You will be looked down upon by spotty geeks who'll refer to you as an AOL LUser

Disagree about AVG. It really isn't very good. I even bought the server version If you want a free AV package that really works try out Avast ( http://www.avast.com/ ) Also, for sanity checks etc try Trend's housecall online scanner http://uk.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise...call_launch.php .

Has your iPaq got integrated Bluetooth? I use the Emtac Bluetooth receiver and this device sits in a pocket.

More likely to be bird scarers. Ploughed fields, seeds ......