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JBDragon

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  1. I have a Compact Flash GPS Receiver on order. I would rather have it attached then another piece of hardware on me even if it is attached on my belt. I have enough on my belt. Knife(You never know!), GPS 60 at times when I'm not holding it, and cell phone just in case. Now add to that the Pocket PC, though I think I won't have to deal with using the GPS60, so a basic swap plus my Camera, since I take a picture at each location I go to, at least the General Area, or right at the Cache, not to big of a clue for others to see. I've been a Premium Member of Groundspeak(Geocaching.com for over a year, but I always did things the slow hard way and printing everything out. Now I'm starting to learn now to do things a little easier. I was using EasyGPS to dump the waypoints into my 2 garmin units, I have just this week switched over to GSAK on my Vista PC. I'm also looking at Cachemate and GPXSonar for the PPC mainly, but am also taking a look at BeeLineGPS and GeoScout. I'm not 100% sure which I'll use for sure yet, or maybe a couple of them. I have to try them all out a whole lot better and see what features I like the best. Right now Cachemate and GSAK seem to be the best Combo, but it's still to early to tell. It'll help once I get the GPS receiver and I can use all the programs full Capabilities. I also have GPS Tuner 5, and also was going to look at BackCountry Navigator. There seems like there's all kinds of programs for a PPC. Almost confusing but at least I have a large selection to pick from, and that's always a good thing. I've had my PPC now for not quite a week so far, and I'm not only using it for GeoCaching, but other things also like my DVD Database, and even Game playing, not to mention the calender is nice and I have my Local Weather on the Main screen at all times. Even a little streaming Music and Video. I've done quite a bit in so little time. It's all NEW to me.
  2. Just for next time so your wasting time writing a message here and waiting for a reply, do a search on like Google or Yahoo, I use a program called 'Copernic Agent Pro' on my PC that searches a bunch of places at once, and you'll find Cachemate or other software doing this also. This is how I found that program after hearing about it. I'm always doing searches trying to find things. It's also how I found GPXSonar and others doing a search for "Pocket PC GPS".
  3. I'm going the paperless way also. I got tired of all the ink being wasted, and all the paper being thrown away when done. Besides I really didn't have many places printed out at a time. Now I can have hundreds of places to go to at any time. I can even find new ones on the road because of all the OPEN WiFi locations almost everywhere you go. I just got a used, but looks NEW HP Ipaq 2795B runnings Windows Mobile 5.0. I've had it for 1 week now, and I'm just getting used to using it before installing any software until a couple days ago. Now I'm trying out CacheMate and GPXSonar and seeing which one I like the best on it. Now if I can figure out a way to easy transfer all the data back to Geocache.com that I've found or not, along with Notes and pictures, I'd be set. I always take a picture or 2 at every place I go to. Like to remember where I've been. Also trying to get used to GSAK on my Vista PC. I've used EasyGPS before, and I've done things the hard way using that, since I didn't know about the Build Pocket Queries feature. This is a lot better. I'm still trying to figure things out. Normally before I would use EasyGPS and dump the way points into my Garmin 2610 and Garmin GPS60. Then using my Printouts, I'd select a way point on the 2610 and have it lead me where I need to go and get in the general area, then I would use the GPS60 hand held to find the final location. Then take my picture and go on to the next place repeating. Then get home and manually enter all the places I found and upload the pictures also. I'm looking as getting a GPS thing for my IPaq. I'm kind of thinking of going with one that plugs into the Compact Flash Port as then it's right there, I could get a Blue Tooth one and use that, but how am I going to hold that also? It needs to be in the open to pick up good I would thing. If I can not have to use the GPS60, that's one less thing to carry everywhere, I can just carry the IPAQ and of course my Camera. I'm just not sure which way to go yet. I really don't need to use it for my car as that's what the 2610 is for and works great and the Map Software I keep Updated already. I'm just trying to figure this all out. The Simpler and quicker it's going to be and still allow me to do everything I want, the better.
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