jacob501
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I have a garmin etrex h and I don't know what to do. I want to be able to upload geocaches to it and have memory on it to store stuff about the cache. The serial cable for the gps costs 38 dollars list price, about 28 on amazon. A usb cable I found for this gps is 17 or 18 on ebay. I don't really want to pay for a old serial cable on the internet, but I also don't want to pay on ebay using paypal.
I looked on craigslist for a new gps that uses a usb cable. My price range is probably 70-100 dollars because I don't want to go too much over the price of the Garmin etrex h I have. I tried posting my gps for sale on craigslist but no one has responded. I found a Garmin Etrex HC on craigslist, brand new in box for 110. Then I found another Garmin HC on the forums for 90 dollars. Is this gps worth buying?
I want the usb cable mostly and I am willing to pay some money. But if I buy an entirely new gps I also want to be able to sell my old one.
Do you think I could sell my etrex h for 60 to 90 dollars to make up for most of what I pay for the HC?
Another reason I don't really want this gps is because it is way too simple and I want something a little more sophisticated. I am just thinking that if I continue to buy up in gps units, soon I could have a really nice one after a while.
I don't know what to do...should I buy a cable, the HC or a totally different gps?
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Um...I don't really know! Sorry! I am actually selling this gps to buy the exact same one you have!
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I've had a chance to examine the new, beta, maps. I don't think there is an improvement over the old maps.
I think GC should leave the maps as they were.
Easy solution!!!
This is what I do and it works perfectly! Just type this into your address bar:
geocaching.com/map
and it will take you to the original maps (which I also like a little better too, to tell you the truth!)
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sorry...
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never mind...sorry i said anything...
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I don't really like the website...sorry..but when you search for a cache and it comes up with the results everything just looks too scrunched in the middle of the page...and i don't like the new smiley faces either...they are kind of ugly...oh well, you don't get everything in life!
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I will sell you my garmin etrex h for 70-100 dollars...if you want it, that is! It is in like-new condition and only been used lightly.
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Ok thanks! Anybody else?
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Im trying to decide which gps to get and those are my two choices. Which one do you suggest? Right now I have a Garmin Etrex H with no cable and I really want to do paperless geocaching...
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How do you show as an anonymous user on the forums???
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When my mom is too scared to go in the water drainage tunnel under the Kohl's parking lot and she won't let me either!!!
That brings back memories. Of course we didn't have Kohl's back then. I once walked close to a mile in one.
Really? I didn't know that those kind of caches had been around that long!
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The other day, I was looking for a cache in the desert and suddenly a gila monster popped out from behind a rock and bit me! That only hurt a little...When I really got hurt was when I was in Antarctica...but thats too long of a story!
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When my mom is too scared to go in the water drainage tunnel under the Kohl's parking lot and she won't let me either!!!
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Whenever the cache page says "Bring your own extraction tool" I just go to the cache and pick it out with my fingers! Thats the easiest way!
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Cool story!
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... and use that electricity to give the hamsters a small shock whenever they start slowing down. I think you might be onto something there!There seems to be some kind of server issue going on. It is still kinda early at frog central. I'm sure once they get the coffee on someone will swap in a fresh hamster or two.
The hamster has been replaced
All is once again normal!This is so OT, but I was thinking the other day...If you had a vet clinic or something where you had lots of mice, rats, and hamsters that ran on wheels, couldn't you generate some electricity by hooking up little generators, so that every time they ran the wheel would spin and turn a magnet in a coil of wire and produce electricty! And I was also thinking about that in those big gyms, where people are constantly exerting energy on those machines! I bet there is a way to get electricity out of that! People could save some money and help the planet!
(BTW this Friday is Earth Day everybody)
Haha! Yeah! Great idea!
(...animal abuser...call 911!...hurry!...please...someone!)
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This sounds like letterboxing:
From Wikipedia:
"Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp, either on their personal notebook or on a postcard, and leave an impression of their personal stamp on the letterbox's "visitors' book" or "logbook" — as proof of having found the box and letting other letterboxers know who has visited. Many letterboxers keep careful track of their 'find count'."
In geocaching you just sign the logbook in the cache and then you log it online. In letterboxing, you stamp the notebook in the box with your personal stamp and you also stamp your own notebook with the box's stamp.
Are you sure you are in the right forums? Do you letterbox or geocache?
If you are new and have a question, feel free to ask it in the "Getting Started" Forum.
http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=5
I geocache. I write down the adventure we had finding the cache and what not. This way when I get home I can log my finds on geocaching.com.
Oh ok!!
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There seems to be some kind of server issue going on. It is still kinda early at frog central. I'm sure once they get the coffee on someone will swap in a fresh hamster or two.
The hamster has been replaced
All is once again normal!This is so OT, but I was thinking the other day...If you had a vet clinic or something where you had lots of mice, rats, and hamsters that ran on wheels, couldn't you generate some electricity by hooking up little generators, so that every time they ran the wheel would spin and turn a magnet in a coil of wire and produce electricty! And I was also thinking about that in those big gyms, where people are constantly exerting energy on those machines! I bet there is a way to get electricity out of that! People could save some money and help the planet!
(BTW this Friday is Earth Day everybody)
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how do you go about solving puzzles any how. I mean sometimes they show just a random photo. I really don't get them most of the time.
There was a puzzle cache like that here in UK. The only information was a photograph of a nice view and the information, "All you need to solve the puzzle is in the photograph".
A keen FTFer received the new cache notification on his phone, recognised the view and assumed that the cache was hidden at the point the photo was taken from. He quickly drove to the location and spent some time searching the area. No sign of a cache.
There followed a terse DNF on the cache page and some frustrated emails to the cache owner along the lines of, "I know I was at the right spot. There's nothing there. It must've been muggled."
The CO checked and assured him that the cache was still in place at its correct location.
Somebody else got FTF. A couple of other cachers logged finds saying, "Neat puzzle, good fun."
When the would-be FTFer finally looked at the cache page at home, on his PC, light dawned...
Moving his mouse around over the photograph he discovered several links... e.g. "Sheep"... "Clouds"... "Buzzards"... and one which said "Cache is at [co-ords]"
MrsB
Haha! Nice! I would be punching the sheep on the computer screen, stupefied by my own stupidity, if I was that would-be-FTFer!!!
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Isn't a place to keep your tics?
Hey, I've always wondered that! If they have a box for tics, why in the world don't they have a box for tacs -- like a tac box!!!???
Then, everytime you check something off a list, you go "Tic, Tac" and you're done! And then you pull a tic tac out of you purse to eat and........
Forget it...
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At the bottom left of the forum screen, select "IP Mobile" from the skins menu.
Yeah do what he said! Up there, in the green box!! Yeah, him!!!
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Garmin Etrex Venture HC and Garmin Etrex H
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This one...
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/ele/2375838879.html
And I might not even buy that one on craigslist, I might get the 90 dollar one on the forums...I don't know. But I don't really care about the screen size.