splashandfluke
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Thanks Andy
Are these all free sites and do they have many New Forest Caches. May have to join them all just to do the forest ones.
I know the new garmin site opencache.com only had 3 and I have done these.
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Thank you everyone, just making sure as my friend bought DVD's from the USA and the tax and conversion charge was a shocker
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how much is premium membership in pounds please ?
what does it mean by taxes
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I'm a newbie, but what about listing all 150 0n all 5 sites as there is a limit so nobody misses out
Or is cross posting caches bad ?
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just traded in my seriously antique brick for a blackberry curve 8520
I have an garmin etrex H for geocaching and I know the phone has no GPS - but can it help me at all, can I store caches I'd like to visit on the phone, so I don't have to print out all the info.
Any help much appreciated, cheers
also can I log finds on this phone, I tried to goto geocaching.com and do it through the browser, but wondered if there was an easier way
thanks in advance
very new to geocaching, first smart phone, so affraid pretty clueless about all this
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Thank you, will look into a cable, loving the etrex H though, two very quick cache's today with it, and I have my TOM TOM ONE as well, to use to flag them in the car as nearby.
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Thank you Go outdoors have this one or one for under £50 and then it jumps to £350 or £399 so it's a big jump to big for me
could you possibly tell me how you put in the cache co-ordinates on the ETREX H anyone ?
We popped down and bought the Etrex H from go outdoors, haven't switched it on yet, so we can take it back if it's not right, just reading through the manual, and I am confused about how you enter waypoints. My Pc hasn't got a serial port, so planning to just enter them manually, but the manual seem to be giving an option for marking a point where I am as a waypoint.
But what I will need to do, is put in the northings and westings of the cache, so I need to check if the etrex H will do that before I switch it on, and make it unreturnable ? Anyone used an Etrex H?
Hi splashandfluke
There is a reason that you got a deal on the Etrex H. Most new owners want to automatically download data to the GPS with a cable. The Etrex H doesn't come with a cable. You have to pay extra for it. The Etrex H uses serial communication. New computers don't offer serial ports. So you need a special cable/adapter. The Etrex H is limited to 6 character waypoint names. Geocache waypoint identifiers have grown to 7 characters in length. That fix requires a software based solution. The Etrex H is limited to loading 500 waypoints. Many newer Etrex units will handle 1000 waypoints. You really do get what you pay for. How much is the cheapest USB, Color, 8 character(?) waypoint name, cable included Etrex unit from go outdoors? Paying a little more for a more user friendly unit might make more sense.
Now to answer your question in case you are satisfied with with the Etrex H price and capabilities. Yes, the manual describes MARKING and saving your current position as a waypoint. What it doesn't tell you is that you can edit that marked waypoint before saving it. This really is a good system. Usually the coords you want to enter are not that far away. At least half of the numbers in the MARKED coords do not need to be edited. Just change a few of the numbers on the end and then save. But before you save those edited coords, remember that you can also change that numeric waypoint identifier (001, 002, 003) to a six character (max) word. Something like CAMP, LAKE, FISH 1, FISH 2, STUMP. Much more meaningful than just a number.
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Yes I know how to Mark a waypoint, I was just checking if there was a way of manually putting the co-ordinates of the cache in to make a new waypoint. But I see now, you mark where you are and then edit the co-ordinates to that of the cache and then save that as a new waypoint.
Will feel funny, using a gps, have been geocaching so far with an OS map
Check out the QuickStart that came with the unit. Marking waypoints is top of the list。
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Thank you, I'll look into getting one of those cables in the UK, if Mum does get fed up entering the co-ordinates manually, as no my laptop is serial port less, unless you count the firewire port, thank you so much everyone for helping me help my Mum buy a GPS.
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Thank you for your help - I haven't bought the Etrex H cable to goto a serial port even, but I may do if I feel I need to connect it to the PC. Thanks for confirming I can add the cache co-ordinates manually and how to do it.
you can get a USB to serial adapter from your local computer store that will allow you to sync your gps with a tool like gsak or easygps.
but to answer your question... whenever you mark a spot you can arrorw up to the field with the GPS coords and change it to the coords of the GC you're adding (it auto populates the field with your current location or the arrow's current location on the map). after you save the new waypoint with the GPS coords you put in manually, it adds the little point to the map for you to direct yourself too.
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We popped down and bought the Etrex H from go outdoors, haven't switched it on yet, so we can take it back if it's not right, just reading through the manual, and I am confused about how you enter waypoints. My Pc hasn't got a serial port, so planning to just enter them manually, but the manual seem to be giving an option for marking a point where I am as a waypoint.
But what I will need to do, is put in the northings and westings of the cache, so I need to check if the etrex H will do that before I switch it on, and make it unreturnable ? Anyone used an Etrex H?
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could you possibly tell me how you put in the cache co-ordinates on the ETREX H anyone ?
We popped down and bought the Etrex H from go outdoors, haven't switched it on yet, so we can take it back if it's not right, just reading through the manual, and I am confused about how you enter waypoints. My Pc hasn't got a serial port, so planning to just enter them manually, but the manual seem to be giving an option for marking a point where I am as a waypoint.
But what I will need to do, is put in the northings and westings of the cache, so I need to check if the etrex H will do that before I switch it on, and make it unreturnable ? Anyone used an Etrex H?
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We popped down and bought the Etrex H from go outdoors, haven't switched it on yet, so we can take it back if it's not right, just reading through the manual, and I am confused about how you enter waypoints. My Pc hasn't got a serial port, so planning to just enter them manually, but the manual seem to be giving an option for marking a point where I am as a waypoint.
But what I will need to do, is put in the northings and westings of the cache, so I need to check if the etrex H will do that before I switch it on, and make it unreturnable ? Anyone used an Etrex H?
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Thanks all The Garmin Etrex H is £49.29 at Go outdoors at the mo, so think my Mum may go for that
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Thanks all, I looked at the geomate but Yes i'm in the UK and don't think they have a version for us.
My phone is an very old nokia brick type phone so don't think that will do it, did look at getting a phone that would, but looks like you have to pay monthly geo software subscription for that.
I don't think my dell studio laptop has a serial port, it's pretty new and has USB and HDMI connections
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Thank you so much for the advice, really helpful, I think I'll go to a shop where I can see some etrex in action, so I can see what else a GPS will do, as totally new to this.
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someone told me I would need one £300- £400 for geocaching - but as Garmin Etrex H Navigation System is £55 at Go outdoors, it seems I was misinformed, phew !!!
Any other suggestions of good but cheap GPS - I think maybe the keychain one from reviews may be a no go
I think it would be fun to try. It seems to have the correct features for basic geocaching, as far as I can tell you can enter coordinates and it gives you direction and distance to those coordinates. I would expect the accuracy to be poor like it was when I used a keychain GPS receiver together with my old phone. When I say poor, I mean that it would get me to within 10 metres but then jump around a lot.
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The etrex is perfectly adequate but it's clearly not the most basic cheapest GPS receiver you can buy. The one in your first post wins hands down.
Would that one do geaocaching the first one the mini GPS ?
, I added that one in editing the original post after I replied about the etrex
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is this the most basic cheapest GPS you can buy ?
Hi we've been geocaching from memory of the multimap birds eye view back home, and just upgraded to using an OS map - having fun and wondered what is the cheapest and most basic GPS - that will confirm that we are in the right spot, any advice much appreciated thanks 
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Hi we've been geocaching from memory of the multimap birds eye view back home, and just upgraded to using an OS map - having fun and wondered what is the cheapest and most basic GPS - that will confirm that we are in the right spot, any advice much appreciated thanks B
I did see this mini gps
Hi we've been geocaching from memory of the multimap birds eye view back home, and just upgraded to using an OS map - having fun and wondered what is the cheapest and most basic GPS - that will confirm that we are in the right spot, any advice much appreciated thanks 
New forest Caches an Idea
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Thank you for all the info, I've done the three on open, so just some geocaching.com ones left to do, will be a sad day when I run outr of caches in The New Forest, lovely the combination of dog walking and cacheing.