YuccaPatrol

Quite frankly, with the incredible sensitivty of the SiRF III receiver, it doesn't seem to really matter one way or the other for almost any situation. "They" say it is best vertical, but the darn thing picks up satellites from my basement so I'm not really concerned with it like I would be with an old yellow etrex with a patch antenna. Don't worry about it and go out and find some caches!

I think it makes the most sense to put both topo and navigator on the same cards for the same areas. That way you can drive to the cache parking area using navigator and easily switch to topo maps for geocaching without having to monkey around with removing the batteries and messing with the delicate cards in the field.

Good job ABC. . . sigh It is the people who live in the more sparsely populated areas that would most benefit from being able to find a local hot-spot. In the 30 most populous cities, you should be able to find one juts about anywhere.

Are you using the web updater program that Garmin offers here: http://www.garmin.com/products/webupdater/howtoinstall.jsp It should do it basically automatically when you run the program.

I'm not upset if someone else likes a different brand of GPSr. Enjoy your Magellan.

Yes, get two, but get one for the North and one for the South!

I think I will keep both my 60cs and 60csx, but good for you and your Magellan.

Mine is working normally. I guess I would suggest a hard reset followed by reloading the software and firmware again.

I do get a lock on the WAAS satellites indoors. I haven't gone downstairs to check on the WAAS satellites in the basement since the software/firmware upgrade. Garmin just replaced my 60cs with a reconditoned one (after it was run over with a car), but I haven't even bothered to put batteries in it yet since the cxs is so incredibly nice.

Doesn't it only lock onto a road when you are autorouting?

The darn thing is so sensitive that I have yet to need to concern myself with this in any situation I have encountered. Love this darn unit!

When I bought my 60csx, I bought from www.gpsdiscount.com . They had the best price I could find and offered very cheap fed-ex shipping. I received my unit 1.5 days after ordering it. Previously I have bought from www.gpsnow.com and their prices are also very good.

But to clarify your results (not including the comparison between your 60 and the 60csx), what you have experienced is the difference between the patch antenna that your legend had and the more sensitive quad helix antenna. Your older 60 series unit does have a much better antenna than a "newer" Legend. The new x series units have a quad helix antenna, but their huge advantage is the new SiRF III receiver that is much more sensitive than anything previously available. I get a solid lock on satellites in my basement, which is something that my 60cs will never be able to achieve.

Good for you! Considering my experience with my 60csx and 60cs side by side, my results have been the exact opposite. Did the couple with the 60csx have the latest software/firmware upgrades?

If you are going to build units with special geocaching features, then please allow us to do two things: 1) hide our hundreds of geocache waypoints that clutter the map when we are not geocaching 2) increase the number of characters in the comments/notes field for waypoints so that we can download the complete hints. Considering that we now have basically unlimited storage capacity with the new x units, this should not be a big deal at all to do. 3) and I'd just like to thank you for making the best gps units out there!

Great news! I am downloading it now. . .

I tried to duplicate your problem with each of my Garmin units but I could not get any of them to randomly delete all of my waypoints.

I think this is a good chance to exercise the search function as this unit is probably the most talked about in the forum. . . but yes, it is excellent for autorouting.

I think the idea of having a radio and GPS as one unit is neat, and I also like that you can see the position of another person on your screen, but I'd still steer clear of these because of the rechargable lithium-ion battery. I don't like the idea of having my gps run out of power in the middle of nowhere and not being able to toss a couple alkaline or rechargable AA batteries in it. Most of the time I am using my gps, I am not using my FRS/GMRS radio. Both my GPS and radios take standard batteries and I like the peace of mind knowing I could get batteries at any gas station if it came down to it.

I bought my brother a Legend and installed all of the topo maps within about 50 mile radius of his home area. Works great for him. If you have a friend with the topo software, they can load the maps you want on it without having to buy an unlock code. That would be about your cheapest way to get topo maps on a GPS.

For off-road, I would go with Garmin color mapping unit (60csx first choice) with TOPO software. No mapping software is going to have all the trails, so decent topo software will be a big help.

Hopefully, you upgraded to another Garmin. If so, I'd ditch the Magellan. If you got another Magellan, I'd still ditch the old Magellan so I would have at least one Garmin unit I could count on to get fixed if I ever needed to contact customer support.

FWIW, the 60csx bugs are really quite minor although you'd get the impression in these forums that these units don't work at all. I have not had any significant repeatable problems with mine since getting it a couple months ago. The benefits of the sensitive receiver are incredible when compared to my older 60cs that I haven't turned that unit on since I got the new one. So far, my 60csx has brought me within 10 feet of the caches I have looked for since getting it. my 60cs never was that good.

At the time I bought my 60csx, it was cheaper than the 76csx. Personally, I like the case design of the 60 series, but the two are essentially the same otherwise. I have upgraded from a 60cs to the 60csx and have LOVED this new unit. It is by far the best gps I have had ever, and I've had a bunch of them. At this point, I cannot recommend that any of my friends buy a Magellan unit due to their declining customer service reputation.

Better start driving a Prius to the cache parking area and using rechargable batteries if you hope to stand a chance against ELF.