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And a certain whole category of caches all got locked in late 2005, no more of those, sorry if that's what you were trying to do.

I'd also say that if you speak Hindu (or is it Hindi?) you might understand the extent of their lack of knowledge of their own products. LOL.

If you are the owner of the cache and you look at your profile Geocaches (Mine) then yes, it's also only Found It logs that update that date. But you will get an email of any log activity. I've long asked for making that little bit of information more useful like having 2 dates there, the Found It one and the last log of any kind along with what kind of log that is. This really matters if you have hundreds of cache hides, not me yet or ever.

I would expect Magellan to send out the hounds to any site that actually supplies 'modified' firmware due to copyright issues. They are very active in making sure no site has any BaseMaps. But I consider a BaseMap to be useless without a GPS, so why make it hard for people to get them? As for the timing issue and consistancy in offset in one direction. I never detected that the error was in one specific direction. I got the impression it was always in whatever direection you were walking. I.E. You always overshoot a waypoint, hense the name 'rubberbanding error'. Another indication of the timing being off, besides and http://www.time.gov/ or wwv shortwave, is to use secret menu [01] at the bottom of the screen are 2 lines, the last line alternates every 10 seconds, if it says BADRTCR and a number other than 0 your timing is off, it can sometimes correct itself to a smaller number but BADRTCR itself never goes away unless you do a memory clear all. You should normally see Tt 0 and something.

Now that you have mastered that, I was told by a Mister E. that sometime, I don't know how soon, these forums are going to be completely different. Different software altogather. So at that point I think effectively all posts will be 'archived' I.E. any links to threads or directly to a reply within a thread or reference to a post number in a thread will probably never work. I dread the thought of the nightmares that will cause. TPTB, please take this pre-cognition into consideration in your decision to or decision not to change.

And Back Roads Explorer, which gives you the whole USA on 17 CD's. But it's only 1:100K scale, may matter depending on what you need.

They are NMEA sentences when they are stored on the SD card. Definately not what an Explorist uses, don't they use GPX files? On the Gold, there is very limited information on each waypoint. Lat/Long, Name, Elevation, Time/Date, and comment, and symbol/icon. Comment is limited to something like 50 characters. And even though the unit can hold 500 waypoints at a time, only 200 of them can have a comment. The unit will decide which ones to not have them, it's sequential, first 200 you send to it, or less if you already have some waypoints with notes, have them.

Humm, intriguing. But is broadcasting that you are trying to break their system really smart. LOL But I'd come at this with all possible actions on a travel bug, in all possible orders, perhaps with a couple accounts too. Build a matrix, write note, discovered it, retrieve from GCxyx, grab from somewhere else, (I can't seem to mark in unknown location)... I'd possibly have the unknown location mixed in there in all possible combinations too. I'd possibly fudge the dates of the various logs also, some following logs logged as occurring prior to when it could happen... Is it the same algorithm that calculates the mileage that's used to draw the 'map'? I know if a bug has only moved to one location it has no 'visible' map, and it has no miles. I see you mention archived caches. Good. How about 'Locked' caches too?

Those are WRONG. Please read the writeup a few more times. If you have not read it in a few days, it's been made a little more understandable in the last couple days. You have chosen a checksum instead of a satellite in one place. And you have chosen part of a Longitude instead of a satellite in the other place, and gotten that botched too. Pairs of characters, not individual characters, ABCDEFGHIJ is mentally thought of as AB CD EF GH IJ and can't ever be thought of as A BC DE FG HI J I've corrected your highlights S3 19 2D1BD3DC 230A230F23142319231E23232328232D23322337 4C S3 19 2D1BD3F0 0000FF7B8700FFF1780000408300FF958A00008C A9 S3 19 2D1BD404 8100008C89000000181818181818181818180808 30 87Hex=135 81=129 If these represent the firmware you alread have then you already have WAAS.

That and hypertext links will make it necessary for you to still carry paper for puzzles and perhaps some multi caches.

Oh shucks. No Christmas present for us. Perhaps we might get this for the next release?

IN, no way. NEAR, sure, but how near? I see the damages caused by cachers to historic stone walls all over New England, what a shame that future generations will have smaller and smaller undamaged things to see.

This is correct. Thanks for helping me by posting accurate information. I received the "needs archived" log notice for this cache. Oh I didn't think it did that! Perhaps it doesn't, I'm not sure. But some reviewers might have a notification set up for Needs Mainetnance and Needs Archiving logs within their jurisdiction.

When I said almost the same thing, someone yelled at me and said, something like "really, show me where it says that, how do you know what Groundspeak intends, do you work for them..."

does love stand for long ovedue version enhancement?

Yes, all computerized maps can either give you the coords of where your mouse is, or show you the coords as you move the mouse. But a pixel is perhaps 20 or more meters even on the highest magnification on any maps I've seen. Magellan MapSend: Streets and Topo Garmin MapSource: Topo Lorance MapCreate: Streets TomTom MapShare: Streets Delorme: Streets, and Topo, and others National Geographics: Topo, and BackRoads Explorer and others MapTech: Terrain Navigator Pro Topo. Microsoft: Streets, and MapPoint Well those are not the actual names of the programs, just the capabilities fromthose makers that I've touched.

Back from a weekend trip. I'll answer a few questions here. 1. Yes the regular GPS satellite almanac appears too, that's why a cold start from a completely memory clear takes a while, the satellites today are not exactly where they would be if you project their positions forward from the orbital elements of some 4+ years ago. Check that celestrak site for archived almanacs and play with satellite tracking programs for fun. Yes, geeky. Changing any of this really should not matter at all. All the GPS satellites (but not the NMEA) broadcast their elements, and each broadcast the whole almanac of 32 elements over time. I have figured out how to turn a NASA 2 line satellite element, or a SEM or YUMA element set into a NMEA set, that's what I thinkwould be needed in the firmware. A $PMGNCMD,ALMANAC command returns up to 32 elements sets, for satellites that have been received. Here is one line for satellite 25, one earlier satellite was not yet knows when I did this after a reset. $PMGNALM,31,24,25,1512,00,6060,7B,1070,FFFFFD46,A10D0A,CD6B1B,D728DD,517F70,000,000*71 Things like this do appear in the firmware. I'll make my info on this available sometime. But I'm spending my time making my writeup more understandable to everyone, reguardless of their computer skills. 2. One should only need to change Longitudes, if say you expect to travel to Europe and want EGNOS over there. We on the East Coast of the USA can see PRN120, and the GPS will look for that since it's above our horizon, even if there are real live birds here. I'm not exactly sure but I think the firmware looks sequentially through that list of 6 satellites for any above the horizon. I had to change PRN120 from Weat -15 (FFF1) to East +15 (0F) so it would not show up at all. If I ever go to Europe it will show up. Others have not had to do this and it seems that if one new satellite is seen then the rest is known, that has not happened for me. 3. Magellan sucks in that there can only be 6 WAAS satellites. The FAA system actually allows for something like 30, and right now there are 7 listed at celestrak. I think Garmins are better in this respect, they search all possible WAAS/EGNOS/MSAS satellites, wether they are above your horizon or not, until they find one or more. 4. SD card vs serial, I've not clobbered my basemap either way. But I have clobbered the firmware a couple times using the SD method. 5. I would post 'modified' firmware versions if there were not too many Magellan Models, and so many versions of firmware, and it were not a copyright issue. But mostly I don't want to go to prison. If it were as easy as a 'patch' I would provide that, but as many know, the WAAS section of all the firmware at different addresse. 6. Some people have reported that their GPS's still look for 120 and 122, even after removing those. A memory reset will clear that up. I've spelled that out in the latest little edit to VERSION 1 of my page. LOL.

I'd say it's sad, not funny. They have some nice products, and people get attached to even their crappy products. If they cared about us, we would care more about them and perhaps build up their sales.

If everyone, especially reviewers, do not know how to read a full cache page of a Premium Members Only cache and not ever appear in the Audit Log, then I'm <3.

This is kind of like asking: I see you have a nice car parked right here, should I take it? Gee, that's a nice GPS on the dashboard, should I keep it? Cool, a free full bag of groceries in the bed of your pickup truck, should I steal it? Geocoins belong to someone. Travel bugs belong to someone. Geocaches themselves belong to someone. I'll point you to some useful information. http://www.geocaching.com/track/ http://www.geocaching.com/track/geocoin.aspx http://www.geocaching.com/track/geocoinfaq.aspx http://www.geocaching.com/track/travelbugs.aspx http://www.geocaching.com/track/howtogeocoin.aspx http://www.geocaching.com/track/howto.aspx http://www.geocaching.com/track/faq.aspx http://www.geocaching.com/track/travelbugfaq.aspx

looks like the original posting was gobbled, and his duplicate posting gobble too, and my reply duplicated...

I do believe all those are not just archived but 'locked' from further logging activity. Not sure about all of them but one i just looked at says "The listing has been locked and is not accepting new log entries." It's impossible to log a locked cache or a locked travel bug.

Don't you mean to say that two blues would work for you? Who says I don't support the site? I may have several geocaching accounts, any number of which might be a Premium Members one. Everyone knows me as TrainLove and I'm not going to change that. The only account I ever pust with in the forums is this, since that's what the rules say.

I hear that Delorme is working on one for their GPS's.

Oh, sounds like an unmaintained Virtual, I hope you do not put a Needs Maintenance or Needs Archiving log on it. But, every virtual I've ever found, I've never had to wait for a reply from the owner. If I sent wrong info or such i'd expect to get a message, but i've never been wrong.