corncat

On a Legend C, the default distance units for proximity waypoints is set to "miles". Does anyone know a way to change the proximity waypoint distance units from the default "miles" to "feet"? CornCat

I purchased a PC-Moiblile re-radinting antenna (that runs on 3 AA batteries) and it works great in the car. Improves reception on my Legend C considerably while in the car. Agree, that in the open you don't see much difference. Not had to use it under heavy tree cover as yet, as the Legend C has performed well under those conditions. But, I do have the antenna and a couple of washers in my pack just in case. I'm very happy with its performance.

We're 53 and 56 year old rookies. Just started caching in Feb. 2005.

Thanks to all of you that responded. We'll be taking your advice.

My wife were out GCing in Babler state park near St. Louis last weekend. We both ended up with deer ticks. What methods to you experienced cachers use to keep these and other little guys from taking up residence? I have read that deet will help, but how can one apply both sunscreen and deet for protection from both? Thanks for your guidance.

It may also be related to some of the other files that GSAK loads. Will the auto protection allow you to ignore a whole folder (and sub folders within them). If so, then could you please give this a try, I would be interested to know what happens. Set Norton up to exclude the GSAK folder under Program Files. Did not make any improvements, but actually made the loading process much slower. Uninstalled 5.1.1 and reinstalled 5.1.0 and it works fine without any exclulsions. It's probably related to my version of Norton, as it's quite old.

Please see this post Installed 5.1.1 Release 14. Had to deselected all Startup files to get it to run. Took about 2-3 minutes to load. Reselected all Startup files. GSAK takes 2-3 minutes to load. Running Windows ME. Is this normal for this new version? Hmm, I have never heard of GSAK taking that long to start up on any system. Do you have a virsus scanner running that has "realtime protection"? If so, then exclude the file "GSAK.ini" (install folder of GSAK). This file contains all the GSAK settings and gets updated very often. Some virus scanners seem to cause a bottleneck here when a particular file is updated frequently. The other poblem is memory. How much memory has your Windows ME system got? Although GSAK will run in 32mb of ram if you have other applications running your system will "thrash" paging memory in and out from disk. Clyde, You identified the cause. I do have Norton Antivirus ver 5.00.02 running with updated antivirus files. If I completely disable the Norton Auto-Protect feature, GSAK 5.1.1 loads normally. If I exclude GSAK.exe and GSAK.ini in Norton AV, it still takes forever for the program to load. When loading the system is so busy it locks up the cursor until the programs loads. My testing was done without any other programs running. GSAK ver 5.1.0 Build 30 does not have the slow load problem but loads in what I would consider a normal time for my notebook, with Norton Auto-Protect enabled. My notebook has 128MB RAM. Haven't noticed the same slow load issue with any other programs. I'll use 5.1.0 since I'm a little uneasy about disabling the Auto-Protect feature. Thanks corncat

Please see this post Installed 5.1.1 Release 14. Had to deselected all Startup files to get it to run. Took about 2-3 minutes to load. Reselected all Startup files. GSAK takes 2-3 minutes to load. Running Windows ME. Is this normal for this new version?