GreatCanadian

pretty sure i have a cable home...pm me if you're still looking and i'll check after work this evening.

The Venture CX is the EXACT SAME GPS as the Legend CX other than the housing color. He recommends it because it is cheaper than the Legend CX. It's cheaper because it does not include the cable, card or Trip and Waypoint Manager. You are probably gonna want a bigger card eventually. If you have a digital camera, there's a chance that the cable might fit the gps. And, if you decide that you will purchasing mapping software, you won't need Trip and waypoint manager. Plus, there are other programs out there for free that you can use to manage your waypoints. That's my guess to why he thinks it's a better buy than the Legend CX.

First of all let me say yes, if the vista hcx works as it is predicted to, then it is a very suitable gps...i am getting the legend hcx (same as yours without the electronic compass) Yes, it will autoroute quite well....the audible prompts won't be great, and the visual prompts are ok .. limited in effectiveness by the small screen...but it does autoroute very well. Personally, I would chose Garmin over Magellan. Just personal opinion though; I'm sure others will disagree. Not familiar with Mac so I can't advise on that. As for mapping, yeah, I think you will eventually spring for the maps!!

I recently sold one of these on ebay for 157 PLUS 10 shipping. It was a used GPS with only the cable. In excellent condition. The buyer was very satisfied.

My Legend CX allows for 10 characters in waypoint names...pretty sure it's 10 ... i know it's more than 6.

I've pm'd you

Do you have any maps installed or are you using just the basemap that came with the GPS. You can expect the basemap to be quite inaccurate.

You still looking for a cable? I am at work but i THINK I may have one at home. Let me know if you're still looking.

Thanks very much. It looks like the adapter can be purchased for less than 10 bucks from what I can see online. Perhaps that will do the trick. Again, thanks to all you who replied.

' Because the last action over there was over a week ago as far as I could tell. Besides, the chance of someone over there knowing if OURS will work with THEIRS is the same as someone over here knowing if THEIRS WILL WORK WITH OURS. Did that make sense?? The more I read it the more confusing it gets!!!

I couldn't agree more.

Claim what you will, but as for understanding, you are obviously choosing to not understand MY point. I know exactly what you are talking about, and understand exactly what happens when a vista cx and a 60cx are taken through a canyon, and why a vista would show a nice looking, but actually inaccurate track. If you read my post, you would realize that i was travelling open terrain. There is no excuse for a $400 GPS to lay down a crappy track in open terrain. And you're telling me that it's doing so because it's so great a picking up signals that it picks up even the weak ones that throw the track off!! That makes no sense. If it can't interpret it's signals better than that, then it is not reliable. And it does seem that it is NOT all the 60's and 76's doing this. But it also appears that there are quite a few more than me having this problem. I don't thing it's good enough for a $400 GPS. I need my GPS to take me through a narrow opening when in my boat to get to the harbor where my Dad's cabin is. I do that with the Legend C. I NEVER NEVER NEVER use the 60cx for this, as it could very likely be 50 to 60 meters or more off!!! That puts me aground. My Legend C is trusty enough to ALWAYS LEAD ME THROUGH SAFELY. I guess my point is this. If I have an extra few minutes to wait for accuracy to find a bucket of toys hidden in the woods, I guess the 60cx is most definitely the best out there at this. If I need instant accuracy to guide me through that harbor inlet, then the track on the 60cx is NOT the one I would trust at all. At least not on MY 60cx. Do you really think that that is acceptable in a $400 unit? A wandering track could be deadly. Again, I am talking about open terrain. (By the way, my 60cx is showing an EPE of anywhere from 2 to 6 meters most of the time, even when nowhere near that.)

Correct. Also even if your charger does handle 240V @ 50Hz, don't forget the plug difference (an adaptor will be required). Your batteries will work of course just check the charger. Aussie plug looks like: / \ | Well thats about as close as I can get with ASCII art Great. Thanks for the info fellas. What about a car charger. I assume their car batteries and voltage are the same as here!! ?

Hi all. My niece is taking a vacation in Australia later this summer. I will be lending her one of my GPS's. I was thinking of giving her my rechargeable batteries and charger. Then a thought struck me. The power supply in Australia: is it the same as ours? Will the plug fit the outlet? Any advice would be great. Thank you.

There are a couple of statements among your post that I have issues with. First of all that the simpler units don't wander around simply because they don't have a clue where you are. Well, if that's the case, my Legend C didn't have a clue where I was in exactly the same manner both on the way in and out the same track. That means it is very accurate at not having a clue where it is. Maybe not precise, but accurate. That's good enough for me. As for the track obscuring the road on a map, I would venture to guess that that would be true as the maps are NOT known for their accuracy, and I would expect the track to be on it sometimes and off it sometimes with just about any gps. Happens with both my Legend and 60cx. It seems to me that the variance in the tracks laid down by my 60cx seem perfectly acceptable to you guys because the 60cx has the high-sensitivity chip. My point is I CAN'T RELY ON THE TRACK ON THE 60CX to lead me out the same way i went in. I CAN do that with my Legend. the Legend's tracks are MUCH closer together than that of the 60cx. Without any explanations of WHY, tell me which I should trust more if I NEED TO RELY ON MY GPS TO LEAD ME OUT. I park in my driveway and my 60cx tells me my driveway is 60 meters away. Did I mark it wrong? Well if so, that's where it told me it was when I marked it. So which is right. My Legend tells me sometimes it's 8 or 10 meters away, but never 60. This is a constant problem, not a onetime thing. And I would believe it as a defective unit except for the fact that I've seen the same problem posted quite a few times on this forum. Can my 60cx lock on in my basemsent? You bet it can. But I don't often get lost in my basement.

Thanks for that info, and the cheaper price!!

Hello all, I saw the Etrex Legend HCX at Macmall online for $224 plus 11 shipping. I am considering ordering one in advance as that is a reasonable price. Has anyone had any dealings with them, and if so, how were they? Thank you.

Mounted on handlebar while riding wide open terrain with no hills or trees around for miles. My buddy had his legend c mounted the same way. My point in this thread is NOT the wandering but the discrepancy in 2 tracks laid down in the same place. Mine show (for the most part) 2 parallell tracks anywhere from 50 to 100 meters apart. I went in on a trail, and came out on the same trail. The 2 tracks laid down by the GPS are not even close. (They are at points, but generally 50 meters or more apart). Both tracks laid down by the Legend c are extremely close. Wandering is not the problem in this situation. My 60cx lays down the WRONG TRACK. And if you believe that the 60 cx is more accurate than the legend c, I'll take the legend c, as it's track is obviously more reliable in this case. If the 60cx is more accurate, how am I to know which track is the accurate one of the 2 laid down. And if you read other forum threads, you will see that this is a fairly common problem with the 60cx. I it is caused receiving bounced signals or signals from the horizon, then someone needs to find a method to filter these signals in the 60cx. While fishing yesterday, I noticed a cache on my gps. So I paddled the canoe to shore to take a quick look. The cache was supposedly nearby. I got to ground zero and the gps told me I had to go 56 meters east to get to the cache. That would have put me about 20 to 30 meters out in the pond. I didn't waste any more time looking, and went back to fishing. That problem is NOT wandering. Now dont' get me wrong, the gps has put me dead on coordinates at times. But not often enough for me to trust it. It isn't my first gps, I've had dozens, and use them extensively. This one has not earned my trust yet.

It's normal for the etrex series as much if not more so than the sirf chip models. I've logged thousands of track miles hiking and mountain biking with GPS's and they all tend to have track offsets, wandering and other errors, often with the error being several hundreds of feet. It doesn't matter whether I use my Pocket PC based units, one of my several different etrex's, one of my sportraks, or any of my Forerunners. If you use the unit with road maps and lock to road turned on, it looks good, but thats because the track record is based on the computed position with the lock to road function. My magellans don't wander when stationary because of the auto averaging, but they still drift way off sometimes when recording tracks, all depending on the terrain. If you're looking to record highly accurate trail data with any consumer level unit, you're going to have to cover the same trail several times, manually take care of obvious errors, then average out the trail data with software such as topofusion. No, as I said before, that is NOT the case with my other GPS's in comparison to the 60cx. As a matter of fact, just last evening (after my previous post) a friend and I rode 9 km on our atv's to go fishing. On the way out, his track was dead on, mine was 50 to 100 meters off MOST OF THE WAY OUT!! So to say that it is as much or more so in the etrex series is very innacurate. My friend's gps is a Legend C.

A lot of people in this forum are saying that it is normal...i don't agree...may be normal for a 60cx but not for many other models....my 60cx does the same thing, but my legend c never did, and my current legend cx doesn't do it either....the tracking on those two is much more reliable than on my 60cx..when i use the gps on walk in fishing trips, i can follow the track out with the 2 legends, but with the 60cx, i cannot trust it's track...mine is for sale. I realize that yes, consumer grade GPS's will have a certain degree of wandering, but that's not what i'm talking about. I'm talking about the reliability of the track put down by the gps. The track with my 60cx is NOT reliable. I don't trust it. I have full confidence in my legends. I've walked hundreds of miles with gps's, and i don't trust the track on the 60.

My thoughts about the legend c.....the best handheld out there....i don't think the sirf chip in the highend garmins is all it's cracked up to be (i have a 60cx)...there are complaints about cards coming loose in some of garmin's handhelds, which won't happen with the legend c....tons of functions...receivers with the electronic compass and barometers have caused trouble in some of garmin's and magellan's models...i had a legend c, and still think it was the best gps i ever owned...and i've owned a LOT of gps's. I think you made a great choice.

Here you go: http://www.gpsinformation.org/perry/etrex/vista/ Regards, Bill Great! Thanks very much.

Where can I find the list of versions where i can move back. I have 2.7 loaded on my CX and prefer 2.6

In Mapsource, click the Maps tab in the left pane. Then as you select your maps, they will be listed in this pane. At the bottom of the pane, you will see the total size of the maps you have selected.

I'm not sure exactly what you want, but YES, you can load maps to the emap. You need mapsource mapping software, a data card, and a PC data cable.