mikeatnight

Im from Murray

The Car USB adapter - 5v - for most PDAs has me intriqued.

The NMEA drove me crazy. After I realized everything is done through the USB setting and using the MAgellan Conversion Manager I am much happier with my 600. I was getting ready to send it back but have decided againt it now...I do wish it would project a waypoint

Hey nobody has mentioned Corba <ducking> I have used a merigold for quite sometime and have liked it. I switched to the 600 and things are getting better. The unit still has a few issues but I do like the color screen

Once you have created the cache you can click the Edit Attributes button

A few weeks ago we went to Dairy Queen I marked it on my GPS and the next week I just hit GOTO and handed the GPS to her and told her I knew where we might find another treasure but she had to guide. We drove about 5 miles to go 1 mile from all the We need to got this way and that way when the pointer was at an angle. We finally made it to DQ and she was amazed that the GPS knew she wanted to go to DQ. She started telling me then she wanted her own GPS. She wanted a blue one like I used to have. Garmin Legend. I looked around and got her a Geko because it has the games.

We started caching about 4 months ago. My daughter will be 5 next week. She loves it. For her birthday she is getting her own GPS. I also got her a new computer game and a mmovie. I have hidden those in tupperware containers and marked them on her GPS so she will have to hunt for them. Im probably more excited about this than she is :-)

Thanks Sonoran for that link to dead men tell no tales.

heheh nevermind. I wasnt logged in

I opened up my Mozilla this morning and Geocaching.com Website is not showing in the topics. I switched back to IE and it is there. I killed my Mozilla and opened it back up and its still not there.

I talked to Tech Depot and they issued me an RMA. I was surprised they did because the website stated that the item cannot be returned. Im going caching this weekend and Im gonna try the 600 and see how it performs. I may end up keeping it and waiting for the upgrades. The downside to switching teams now is I just bought DirectRoute so I would m ost likely need to get a new mapping program. I still like the SD card in the 600 and my merigold

We were going for this one http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f6-3c4839808f11 And took a wrong turn and came up on 6 lawn mower handles stuck in the ground. I didnt have my camera that day. I may have to go back later. Maybe even hide one here.

When I was a kid we were vacationing at Current River in Missouri and were walking back frm the river to the campsite. It was about a 1 mile walk and a hail storm beat us silly. We were running, barefoot of course and ran right into a thicket of small cacti. We pulled small thorns out off our feet for several hours that evening

Forgive I havent read through all 17 pages. Here is my question. Do you like your 60c or 60 cs? I just got an explorist 600 and I am not at all happy with it. I got an RMA and Im thinking about sending it back and getting a 60C I thought about the 60CS but after playing with the compass and the altimeter in the 600 I dont feel the need for it. Thanks

I think Im going to return my 600 and get a Garmin 60C.

Can you export a gpx file and upload it to the 600 in the regular POI or My Points of Interest? HAs anyone had any trouble using the NMEA settings to get tracks and other things? Here is the error I get when downloading from the GPS

I did have it calibrated just about 2 hours earlier and I wasnt around any power lines. I did it both inside and outside of my truck. Now that I think about it I was holding it more vertical than horizontal. That may have been the problem

it took about 2 minutes and the merigold got to within about 20 feet I think. It does seem to take the 600 a lot longer to get a lock on the satelittes. My merigold takes about 2 minutes on a cold start and the 600 takes over 5 minutes. I had some issues with the clock in the beginning. I would set it and then it would be wrong. I only noticed it when I unplugged the cable it would popup and say cable was unplugged at 12:08pm while it was really 9:17 am.It did that several times and I reset it to factory and it seems to be better now. One problem I have found is havng the compass turned on while looking for a cache. I have no idea where the arrow is pointing. I had a good lock and I knew where the cache was but the arrow was pointing about 75 degees in the wrong direction. It wasnt even pointing North. More of a NNE direction. I opted to turn off the compass and it lead me direct to the cache.

I did a side by side comparison of my merigold and 600 this weekend in a heavily tree covered area. I let both units get a WAAS signal before I left. It was a short drive of about 1 mile. The walk from the car to the cache was .24 miles under heavy tree cover. I held both units side by side in my left hand and when I got to the cache the 600 was 7 feet off and the merigold was 176 feet off. YES 176 feet. I did walk straight to the cache. I didnt use the pointer.

so what the heck is a "furrie"?

so what the heck is a "furrie"?

I just got a call from a muggle friend and he said "I thought you tod me you couldnt bury a cache" I told him that is correct. He then said "Well what a load of s#&t"

The news just flashed coming stories on the screen. It said Coming up:Summertime digging safety

looks like my truck. and a signature item

LOL geocouching I love it