Tydog07

Anyone can answer this but I just wanted to quote his answer, what are the capabilites of the Delorme PN-40 as far as on road navigation. I don't think it talks to you but what are the capabilites that it has?

Ha ha that would be funny!

I just received my blinkie nano cache yesterday! I'm going to try it out before I buy a set of them! Looks very cool though!

Thank you kind sir! I would've replied in the message, but I couldn't find it!

Yea, I'm waiting for those to go back in stock! Here they are on Ebay. Ebay auction link Just to let you know ,I am the seller. Hahaha! I've looked at those recently in the past week! They looked kind of funny to me though because it looks like the O-ring sticks out around the container more than the other ones I've found, is this true? Either way, the cost to my door is $9 for 5 containers, which is only $1.80 per container, what a great deal! It is true but I have never gotten any complaints from the thousands I have sold. One guys put in his feedback that he loved it because it made it easier to open. Send me your address through my profile and I will send you one so you can take a look at it. Did you ever send one to me?

You don't know what you're missing. And if $30 a year will break your bugdet, I don't know how you pay for your boat, your computer, your internet connection, or your $200 GPS ... Yes but you don't NEED membership to get the job done. I've gotten around just fine without paying membership. I can download all of the caches I need to my Oregon (yeah the cache size and description isn't there, but thats what I do research beforehand for). As of right now there isn't enough incentive to pay the extra fee. Geocaching.com isn't giving me enough for the money AFAIK. I'm not a paperless fiend, all I need is the waypoint in my GPS and maybe a little title for it that states what the name of it is. I'm not out looking for 500 geocaches a day, so I don't need the GPS to hold the kitchen sink for me of information. Thats just my opinion though. If Geocaching.com started offering more incentives (maybe free t-shirt and a starter cache container for first time members) I would be willing to pay. But right now, its like trying to sell me a car just because it has 4 cupholders instead of 2. So you're saying you have one of the top-of-the-line GPS units but no PM? Isn't that something like buying the best race car you can get your hands on, but only putting regular unleaded in it? Sure the gas makes it go, but it just sputters along like a cheapo car... (sorry, couldn't think of a better analogy this early today lol). OK, that's like paying for first class and then sitting in coach! That's like paying for the movie and leaving after the trailers. That's like.... Isn't the reason to own a unit that does paperless caching is so you can actually utilize that feature?? I don't search for 500 caches a day either, I hardly search for 1 cache a week at this point...BUT, should I have the urge in the middle of a nice afternoon while sitting here at my computer, I can just pick up my unit and head out since the info is there already. When I come home, I'm not tied to my computer again logging the one or five or ten finds, I upload via field notes and they simply wait in queue for me to finish the process...no need to worry if I lost the notes or anything, it's there waiting for me! And, shame on you for thinking GC owes you more...just the listing service itself is worth the $30 a year (IMHO) and I'm about as cheap as they come! When I first started and owned a Garmin Etrex, you couldn't give me a membership, but I quickly realized that loading each cache by hand, writing down the notes (which were usually nothing more than size diff/terr, hint and name/GC #, but still took awhile to get written down) and then having to rely on them as well as the co-pilot (to keep track of the notes and to mark the RIGHT cache as found or DNFd or whatever...and then there's the bugs). To each their own, but to me, a $30 a year expenditure here is money well spent! I mean, would you pay top dollar for a hi-def TV and then hook it up to an antenna?? No harm, no foul, but could someone just answer my question if the PN- Series can get a .LOC file from the "Send To GPS" Plug-in without a membership?

Yea, I'm waiting for those to go back in stock! Here they are on Ebay. Ebay auction link Just to let you know ,I am the seller. Hahaha! I've looked at those recently in the past week! They looked kind of funny to me though because it looks like the O-ring sticks out around the container more than the other ones I've found, is this true? Either way, the cost to my door is $9 for 5 containers, which is only $1.80 per container, what a great deal!

I appreciate your kind offer, but all I can spend is $200. Thank you for the logical explanation though!

I appreciate your kind offer, but all I can spend is $200. Thank you for the logical explanation though!

You can still load GPX files (created via GSAK or any other means) to get caches into the DeLorme devices. But it really does shine when you're a PM and you don't have to do anything beyond selecting the PQ and clicking "Sync" - it downloads right from gc.com and pops everything into your device. Would this "manual process" be the same for the Vista HCX? And if so, overall, whats a better GPS, the Vista HCX or the PN-20, I can't afford the 60CSX. Without membership, you are only able to download information in a .loc file. It's been years since I dealt with .loc files, so I might not be remembering some of this information accurately--but we can count on someone to correct any factual errors I might make. .Loc files will only contain the name of the cache and the coordinates, and as far as I can tell, will be for only a single cache per file that you can download from geocaching.com. Because of this, the Cache Register widget will not be a useful tool for you...you would be better off just importing each .loc file into the TopoUSA software that comes with the PN-20 to upload a bunch of them at one time to the GPS. Importing one cache at a time to TopoUSA would be a bit of a PITA, too, although not too bad if you're only doing 5 or 10 of them (most of us deal with hundreds or more at a time). I don't think that the browser-base Send to GPS plugin that works with the PN-20 (or the Garmin version that works with the Vista) works for non-paying members, either...but I could be wrong on that. I couldn't tell when I tried to check it out. *If* you can download even just the coords and cache name with the plug-in, that would be useful to you. But I think they set it up to make it another incentive to pay for a membership. Then the Delorme might be a deal breaker for me, I don't need the membership because all I want is the .Loc file, and if I can't get that from the Geocaching.com website, then I guess I won't buy a Delorme. But from what I hear, the Garmins can get .Loc files from the Send To GPS Plug-in on every cache listing page. Can someone verify whether or not the Send To GPS Plug-in will work with the Delorme units?

Have you had any luck finding a seller?

Yea, I'm waiting for those to go back in stock!

http://wap.geocaching.com/ Many wesbites offer mobile versions of their sites for phones that don't have full featured browsers. Here is a good aggregate site for them: http://cantoni.mobi/ -Tony Umm, can you say paperless caching! I'm so happy now! I tried m.geocaching.com and mobile.geocaching.com but that wouldn't work, what does wap mean?

I'll keep this short and sweet, I want a unit that is new or like new (not trashed) and preferably has no screen scratches. I don't need the box but manuals, included accessories and a computer cable would be lovely. I need the bottom line price to be $200 or lower, shipping included. These are the units that I'm looking for: 1. Garmin GPSMAP 60CSX 2. Delorme PN-30 3. Delorme PN-40 Thanks and please PM me if you have anything to offer!

I want to buy a few nano cache containers like this one: http://www.cacherstoybox.ca/Nano-Cache_p_9.html But I don't want to spend $3.45 for one small piece of metal, I've found another store to buy them from and they used to only cost $1.50 but they just upped the price to $2.99. http://www.cacheboxstore.com/microcache/Na...cacheindex.html Does anyone know where I can find this cache container for $2.00 or less?

So if I get a Vista HCX OR a PN-20, I can just press the send to GPS button and that will work without a paid membership?

The way I look at most tools & gadgets, I can buy the $75 version twice, or the $100 version once. I'd rather not have the cheap one go south on me when I need it, if the expensive one won't. Is the geocaching widget still useful if I don't have a premium membership, we're still speaking about the PN-20. You can still load GPX files (created via GSAK or any other means) to get caches into the DeLorme devices. But it really does shine when you're a PM and you don't have to do anything beyond selecting the PQ and clicking "Sync" - it downloads right from gc.com and pops everything into your device. Would this "manual process" be the same for the Vista HCX? And if so, overall, whats a better GPS, the Vista HCX or the PN-20, I can't afford the 60CSX.

The way I look at most tools & gadgets, I can buy the $75 version twice, or the $100 version once. I'd rather not have the cheap one go south on me when I need it, if the expensive one won't. Is the geocaching widget still useful if I don't have a premium membership, we're still speaking about the PN-20.

http://www.softwaremedia.com/product/7650....rme-ae007843201 I can't tell if this unit is new/used/refurbished? Can anyone help me?

Will this work with a Vista Hcx? And I thought this GPS doesn't have the Paperless Caching ability.

This is confusing to me. Why budget $200+ on a new GPS with "paperless caching" as one of your primary uses, but balk at paying $30 year ($2.50 month) for full use of Groundspeak's system? I guess I didn't understand how this system worked at first, it looks like you need pocket queries to send multiple geocaches to your GPS, I thought I could just enter them in on a GPSMACRO program. I guess that I can't go truly paperless, that's fine. I just want to know if I should buy a Vista HCX or the 60CSX. Or if anybody had any other suggestions like the PN-20. Why should I buy the DeLorme over the Garmin's?

I saw that unit, but I was afraid to get it because of two reasons: 1) I've never heard of the brand 2) It's only $199.99 Retail, which means I could (already did) find this unit for $150 on the internet, which is under budget, so I don't want a poorer model. How could I get it to be paperless without the paid membership, could I still press the send to GPS button on a cache listing and still work?

I also want to add to my criteria that I don't want to pay to become a premium member "pocket queries" and I don't want to pay for any maps.

Hello everyone! I just got into the sport of geocaching about a month ago and I have found 16 geocaches to date and I've hidden 3. I have an old Garmin GPS Plus III that I use on my boat, this unit has met my expectations for being made in 1999. It's time for me to purchase a new unit and so I was thinking about an Garmin eTrex Vista Hcx. Here is my criteria for my next GPS: 1) Color Screen 2) Paperless caching (Has the paperless feature or not, I know that you can rig the Vista Hcx for paperless) 3) Good accuracy 4) Garmin or Delorme 5) Handheld 6) Not too difficult of a connection to a computer 7) $200, I want to either buy it off these forums or online somewhere, so I can save a lot of money! I think the Garmin eTrex Vista Hcx does all these well, at least from my research. I was also thinking about a GPSMAP 60Csx, I know that's a quality unit, but I can't find one for $200. Please assist me, I won't have any money left to spend on maps so if you guys know where to get free maps, that would be really helpful! Thanks!