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For Sale Garmin Oregon 550t/Full Europe Topo + GB Discoverer England/Wales O.S. Maps Mint condition. Boxed with all cables/manuals etc. Garmin Bike Holder Inc. All like new, little used. 320.00 pounds o.n.o.

For Sale Garmin Oregon 550t. Mint condition. Boxed with all cables/manuals etc. Full Europe Topo Maps + O.S. Discoverer Maps England/Wales Garmin Bike Mount Holder. Little used in superb condition. 320.00 pounds o.n.o.

Kenfig Pool, South Wales. GCP 584

Just had mine delivered today, thanks for the heads up. Bargain of the year at £2.99 inc postage. Fits the Oregon perfectly inc spare batteries etc. Cheers.

We use Lat and long and WGS84 because all the coordinates you download from the cache page or manually enter are in that format so it's easier. You can certainly run the Oregon in British Grid and the coordinates will show up in that format. But it becomes difficult then to enter say a waypoint from the cache page as N51°33.096', W2°33.153' when you are running the GPS in ST 61785 83780. This is why most cachers keep their GPSr's on lat/long WGS84. The new Galileo system should provide the same positioning information as EGNOS - but until it is operational who can say! Chris (MrB) Many Thanks for your informed response, thats cleared up my understanding. Cheers.

Thanks for this link, very interesting has answered most questions. Just a couple more: If using Garmins OS 1.50 Discoverer Maps on Oregon would one still use WGS84 or OS British Grid for Geocaching.? Will the European Gallilaeo Sat become operational in 2010, if so will that do the same thing as EGNOS ? Thanks in anticipation.

For what its worth I recently purchased the Oregon, before buying on line from Handtec.com they had the best prices on the net at this time, I went to a local outdoor stores where I tried out the O regon alongside the Satmap outside in bright sunshineThey were both demo models and the assistant had to install betteries in each unit before turning on. Both units appeared well made and looked the business, however the Oregon picked up a full set of sat. signals in seconds whereas the Satmap seemed to take an age. Also in the sunshine to my eyes at least I found the Oregon screen easier to view with my reading glases. No doubt others will sing the praises of the Satmap so my advice would be try them alongside each other. Cheers.

Hi All, As a newbie I just thought I would come in from this pers pective, as you were all once. At the moment I am trying to find as many as I can near my location just to get experience and a feel for what is required. When I have more experience I will then place caches but I will not till then. I am semi retired and enjoy hiking, mountain bike rides and find geocaching compliments this greatly. I have been on some outstanding walks and rides through caching in places I never knew existed with fabulous scenery near to my location, I also try and upload images to share these views. Because of my life style these days I would probably in the future look to find caches that would fit the above points. Cheers.

How do you find the quality of the Discoverer maps, has the zoomed in bluring issue been sorted now. Does it help greatly with geocaching for zooming in on tracks and routeable roads etc. Cheers. Hi the blurring does still occure, but i have become accustomed to it. i have the zoom level set at 150' for the approach then zoom in to find the actual container, i find the benefits of seeing the actual paths to get me to the cache out way the blurring at GZ Thanks for that will have to save a bit for this. Also are these maps road routable if so any good? Cheers.

How do you find the quality of the Discoverer maps, has the zoomed in bluring issue been sorted now. Does it help greatly with geocaching for zooming in on tracks and routeable roads etc. Cheers.

Any of the data boxes can be changed by pressing them and then selecting another item to display. One of the items you can choose is "Position (selected)" which should show you the position. You canhave this on the map page or the compass page for example. Many Thanks, Great stuff. Simple when you know how. Could not see that anywhere in manual. Cheers.

Hi, Please can someone suggest how I could view if possible the coordinates on my Oregon Long/Lat from either the geocache description on the unit or whilst I am navigating to the cache? Cheers.

I recently bought an Oregon from Handtec I found these to be the best price at the moment on the internet. I looked into 50% off Discoverer maps on Garmins current promotion if purchased with an Oregon. However the unit must be purchased in a store participating via Garmin, not on the net and the Oregon units were more expensive up front to compansate the promo. Cheers.

Yep your right, just had a play with the maps as you say Martins will show more detail in some areas whereby Garmin topo shows more detail in some other locations, so I will keep both and use as best to suit the area I'm at. With the Discoverer set do you find these more useful for geocaching, zooming in close etc, and I am thinking of useing the Oregon on my mountain bike,whereby routeable on road cycle paths would be ideal, no need for me in the car my Tom Tom does the business there. Cheers

You would indeed need to go for the Discoverer maps if you want proper OS detail maps (ala Landranger 1:50,000). I have these too, and to be honest they are only useful when used at the 800ft setting, otherwise I prefer to use the OSM maps I compile for actually geocaching. The Discoverer maps do save me having to carry (and/or purchase/print) loads of Landranger maps, so that's a bonus. Hope this helps? Regards, Martin Thanks Martin that has answered my question, so just for geocaching I might as well just stick to Garmins pre loaded euro topo maps and only consider the Discoverer range for more detail off road in the wild and for routeable on road options ? Cheers.

Should you need Talkytaosters maps? i thought the 550"T" stood for Topo Maps Although Talky's maps would help! does this count as a double post Yes you are both spot on I thought I would get more detail in OS format with Talkies, however both sets show similar detail. I am still learning. Am I right in thinking I would have to go for Garmin Discovery maps to get OS detail. Cheers.

Just had the Oregon 550T delivered this week end. This is my first handheld gprs. Although the manual is not very in depth, the unit itself is very intuitive even for a newbie like me. Downloaded Talkytoasters UK maps, fantastic. Went out caching today for the first time and found my first cache within 10mins, great. Touch screen is superb and had full sat lock in seconds, also screen for me was very easy to read in sunshine and I use reading glasses. Iam still learning all its functions and first impressions for me- awesome. Cheers.

Haha niceone Karrimore. How much? Would you want to cache on the weekend? Yep, No Problem, P.M. if you want.

South Wales would be good, great beaches, mountain ranges,national parks, great for wild caches. You can even stay at my house,at fantastic rates' Cheers.