Darac

If you never get any satellites showing at all, your GPS SW might be corrupt. It's a common problem with Garmin devices. To check, go to Setup -> System and press the menu button. Select Software Version. If the "GPS SW Version" is "0.00", your software's corrupt. Use the WebUpdater to reload it.

There's a path out near us that has signs up saying they don't mind you flicking the poo into the bushes (pointint out that this is good fertilizer for them) or bagging the poo and taking it home, just don't bag it and throw it. Probably just another case of people Not Thinking.

Don't worry, you won't be the first to have caught the police's attention on this very cache. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...a0-35ef97c44ac8 Shortly after this, the police contacted GAGB and there was a period of ensuring the security of caches within London. I suspect those pesky aliens have something to do with it...

Thank you, Flux56! I was recently on holiday in New York and, right in the middle of a day of Geocaching, my eTrex Vista HCx suddenly became unable to get a lock. I thought the problem was the skyscrapers, but even with a clear view of the sky and a good long wait, it still refused to pick up any signal from the satellites. All it said was "Locating Satellites" or "Acquiring Satellites". I was rather panicky that I'd bricked it. So we came back to the hotel (thankfully, free internet) and did some searching. After finding your post, I checked the firmware versions and, sure enough, I had the dreaded "version 0". Now, I'd tried the WebUpdater on my previous Vista Cx and bricked that in the process but I figured I had nothing to lose this time. A few minutes later the HCx was fully updated and, joy of joys! it started locking onto satellites again. My heartfelt thanks to you, Flux56. You're a life-saver.

I found the easiest way was to use Geotoad and search for caches with "Motorway Mayhem" in the title.

As I understand it (probably from reading the Wikipedia pages), vertical position has the worst accuracy of the three dimensions. It may be considered less confusing to only include distance on the flat in travel measurements. If you walk 10 metres along a flat road but the GPS accuracy says you've drifted 20 metres below sea level, you'd prefer it to show you 10 metres. And on a larger scale, if you drive 1000 miles, most hills you climb won't add much difference.

I'm Darac (Male) and my partner in crime, Darkhorse, is also Male. He does the logging while I get to rummage though the goodies. I think I've got the best bit of that deal!

My Boyfriend's recently got himself a Pocket PC with GPS. He's using GPXSonar for storing the caches (Premium members get access to the GPX format which has so much more info in than the .loc format!). GPXSonar allows you to make notes on caches as you find them (timestamping the notes etc) but we had a temporary problem where it wouldn't save anything (notes, settings) in Windows Mobile 5. That's sorted in the beta, though. For actually finding the cache, though, we're still relying on my eTrex Vista. Looking forward to trying some of the suggestions here, though.