jonesturtle

I appreciate the responses. I think the screen size and ease of use of the Oregon would be nice, but may only get the boss to buy off on the less expensive eTrex Legend HCx. The 60CSx and the 76CSx look nicer and easier to use than the eTrex. Would any of them provide the "Turn left now" voice prompts? Not required, but would be nice and could be a selling point for the Oregon if available. I'll go for the best and hope to end up with anything at all. Thanks again

I'm a geocacher who has been using a very basic GPS for years and have not done any research into the new GPS features. I need a handheld for work to respond to accidents. To me a basic GPS will work since I only want to put in the coordinates and go, but I would also like to have it give me directions to the location while driving. A nuvi would be great, but I must have a GPS that I can stick some AA batteries and go any time. Please provide advice on a AA operated handheld GPS that comes loaded with streetmaps or can be loaded with streetmaps for turn by turn directions. All other features are not very important and keeping costs very low would be great. Thanks.

Can anyone tell me the type of coordinates you can enter into a Garmin Nuvi? I am specifically looking to be able to enter UTM, but want to make sure before I buy. Thanks

Happening to me too.

I was just trying out some of the premium member features. I have found that I really like to use the "Map It" feature to look at areas that I will be visiting for the day and see what caches are nearby. I would like to see a separate icon or something that would make caches that I have bookmarked standout so that I immediately recognize a cache I'm interested in visiting in the area. Seems like it would be a simple solution and a quick search did not result in me finding this exact suggestion before. I will play more with the features because I already found that I can create the pocket query search for a bookmark list, but this isn't exactly what I was thinking of.

Does anyone use the receiver that comes with microsoft streets and trips? I thought that might be a good way to go especially for someone who caches with a PDA.

With all the research I did when I bought my GPS, the overall info that I found was that basically all GPSr's work. They pick up a signal and get you really close to where you want to go, just like they are supposed to. The three things I saw that seperated a good GPS from a great one where ease of holding satallite signal, battery life, and ease of use (user interface). I don't know about the Geko, but I'm sure it will allow you to Geocache just great. If you don't see lots of great things about it on this site, you may want to spend a little more to get you a GPSr you will be happy with for a long time instead of not being satasfied and then buying another one anyways.

I have noticed the wandering you are talking about, but more pronounced under canopy. The furthest off I have been after walking a mile was 50 ft. I just got used to it so when I arrive at the cordinates and I don't see something that just jumps out at me as a hiding spot, I walk 50-100 ft further and come back from the other direction and usually am right on then. I think I will have to test someone's eTrex when I have the opportunity.

Wow! After seeing these posts and some others in other topics going on, it seems like Garmin is a huge favorite. I think the Garmin 72 is a few years old so I'm guessing the newer ones are better. I do notice a difference in reception between the Garmin 72 and the Magellen SporTrak. The Magellen's signal is much more predictable. I haven't had the chance to try any others yet though.

I also have a GARMIN GPS 72 that I started using first. It is part of my flight gear in case I have to land my aircraft in an unsecure area (again, I'm in Iraq) and have to evade on the ground. That is what I used to try out geocaching in Iraq. It's pretty easy to use, but I think the battery life could be better. I always tape an extra set to the back of the unit in case I turn it on and it is dead or near dead. Jonesturtle FHEnight.com

To log visits in general you have to be logged into the site. It should say at the top right of the page "you are logged in as (your username)". Then visit the page that has all the information for the cache you want to log. Right beneath were it says "you are logged in as ______" there should be a blue box that says "Log your visit". Click on that, choose the drop down menu item that says found it and the date and fill in the comments. Then choose "submit log entry" at the bottom. Now you logged your cache find. To log the travel bug. You can click on the name of the travel bug listed on the cache site page and it will take you to the travel bug's page. Click on "Found It? Log it!" again in the upper right corner and fill out the log as before but you have to fill out the travel bug tracking number which is listed on the travel bug tag. You can also visit http://Groundspeak.com and put the tracking number into the box on the lower right of the page. Hope this helps Jonesturtle FHEnight.com

I started geocaching this summer while in Iraq. I did a lot of research on gps's when I was ready to buy one. I really recommend the Magellen SporTrak line because it has a great antenna for predictable reception and also has long battery life. Check out my short article at http://FHEnight.com/traditions/geo/geo.html What GPS do you like? Jonesturtle FHEnight.com