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Doh, I fell for it. KGB, why you make me look like chimp? Gord

Doh, I fell for it. KGB, why you make me look like chimp? Gord

Do it all the time, works great. I was in a real ugly snowstorm on some country roads month ago and my Vista and MS Streets & Trips absolutely saved me from missing a couple turns that were drifted over and getting delayed/lost/etc. For various reasons, I have an inverter (12Vdc to 120 Vac) and that keeps the laptop real happy and the screen bright (new laptops often need 16V and get grumpy when running from a vehicle even at ~14 Vdc). I bought the Garmin cable that has a serial connection AND a lighter plug so the GPS saves batteries as well. I just find the laptop sitting beside me on the bench seat works fine. If I was doing the kinda things Hummers like doing, I'd definately need a better mount though.

One other hint is to shoot square on to the GPS face with the sun as direct behind you as you can. I think the different layers of glass and semiconductor in the LCD can give you a parallax type error.

There was a good one up here as well: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=16197 The coords were for the first cache which had cahce 2 AND the distance to the final (3rd) cache. The 2nd cache had only the distance to the final cache and you could use triangulation or intersecting circles to find it. There is a link to a great how-to paper on the topic in the cache description. BTW I used MS Streets & Trips and got within 13m of the final cache.

These things draw so little power, I just let mine run for days at a time. My G12 drew like 60mA which would kill an average truck battery in about 2 months. Is there any circuits that stay live so you can just leave it on or might it sit too long?

Here is one very near to Campbell river http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=16116 Next closest is: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=15076 You can send e-mails to any GeoCachers through a link in their profile found by clicking on their names at the top of their logs. The 'Marmots' (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.asp?A=24822) seem to be in the area.

The author appears to be: Christopher S. Rugel (Chris ) PARK RANGER (PROTECTION) 509-633-3830 x32 LAKE ROOSEVELT NRA Superintendent/Site Manager: Vaughn L. Baker 1008 Crest Drive Coulee Dam, WA 99116-1259 Visitor Information: www.nps.gov/laro Business Offices: 509-633-9441 Fax: 509-633-9332 EMAIL: LARO_Superintendent@nps.gov I'd suggest a polite letter/e-mail to them citing that buried caches don't exist (that I've seen) and that we are as much a caring part of the outdoors as anyone, even more so than many. We have to show them we are normal, intelligent people and this isn't some extreme sport tearing up their terrain. PS I might need your help if the govs up here (Canada) need convincing. Park2

I would truly rather eat eels then read the hints Unagi - real tasty

On the Vista (and probably all similar), push the click stik IN as you turn it on and you will get a status screen. On the old 12, 45, etc series, hold down the enter key (I think) upon power on for the equivalent screen.

Personally, I would hesitate to call this a commercial site and put it in the same category as Amazon. I think it's probably closer to a non-profit site (yes, employees of most non-profit societies get paid and some VERY well with the latest in office equipment and furniture AND others scrape by with very few thanks) These guys appear to put a lot of hours into keeping this and the GC site up and running smooth so it'll take a lot of 30 dollars to compensate them for the time and energy they have expended. I am sure they'd make a lot more as Chief Geek of some dot com (assuming its not a dot gone). As soon as I hear some good things about PayPal and Canada, I'm in. (or are there other options?) Keep up the good work!

I didn't use MeMap, but I did modify the f/w with a free trial hex editor from here: http://www.etree.com/tech/notsofreestuff/hexedit/ I loaded in the f/w file into the editor and searched for the text: WARNING that is at the top of the third info screen on my Vista upon startup. Then just re-uploaded the file into the Vista with the garmin updater program. It did point out I was uploadining the same version, and I said fine, continue. Worked great.

Even though the distance is .00, the Goto compass continues to point towards the actual point so I usually just continue to watch the needle. If I'm not moving fast enough for it to register, I just hold the G12 so S faces the sun (or whatever direction is roughly appropriate for the time of day) and the needle will then point at the target.

Personally, if I am staying in the same datum and not going to UTM, I just multiply/divide by 60 once or twice on my PalmPilot.

quote:Originally posted by justbo: ..... it only updated the laptop once every 15 seconds..... If anyone else using S&T with a GPS plugged into it thinks that the 15 sec refresh rate is to slow, read this post: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/000376.html

Whups, I was offline composing this and Mr Plow beat me too it, oh well, here's my reply. Sorry for the delay, I was out of town for a couple days. quote:Originally posted by Wildcards:OK, found the hex editor, down loaded it. I can find the surrounding bytes of 00060E00 but I cannot find offset 0X60E13 or address 0X60E14. I am assuming "X" equals 00. Please let me know what I am doing wrong. You're on the right track, 00060E10 is the address of the first byte in the line starting with 00060E10. 60E13/14 are the 4th and 5th bytes in the line. You just need to set your cursor in the hex side and OVERWRITE the existing bytes. Note it is important to overwrite, not insert additional bytes. The hex editor defaults to insert so you have to hit your 'Insert' key once so the status lins shows 'OVR' in the bottom right corner. Compare the following string to your original string and you can see the 4th and 5th bytes have changed from 98 3A to E8 07. In most Intel processors, the 2nd of 2 bytes is actually the one that comes first when evaluating them, so the number is 07E8 which in decimal is 2024 and as the other post suggests this is the # of seconds in milliseconds, so I have an update rate of once every 2.024 seconds. (3A98 = 15000 mS) 00060E10 8B 08 BF E8 07 00 00 53 57 6A 01 FF 76 08 50 FF Hope this helps