Ed ke6bnl

Magellian platinum ?? wrong time The hour is ok but the minutes are off by about 3 min. can not reset to adj. any ideas. thanks Ed ke6bnl

I bought some I believe it is call displex to polish the newly aquired ebay meriplat then to make it last for hopefully good. I put a screen ivisible shield protector on so far so good. Ed ke6bnl

I am new to this but I got a used meriplat and it had some minor scratches that I removed with DISPLEX and then I put the invisibleshield on last night. It looks great and was easy to do. The shield has a lifetime replacement warranty and hope to have it hold up better. I would suspect that the plastic shield on the front would offer much better resistence to breaking as an added benefit to the scratch resistence. Ed ke6bnl

DISPLEX SCRATCH REMOVER is for removing resonable size scratches, I just bought it and the invisabe shield and hope to use both this week end I bout the displex at amazon.com Ed ke6bnl will see how it works the shield is guarenteed for life and was $10 including shipping

I have one for sale that I got with a garmin etrex vista used I bought on ebay, I do not have the instructions or the dvd, I do I understant the driver can be had on the keyspan site on the internet I will sell it for $15 plus shipping Ed Oh the garmin was never in the box and ups made good to the buyer and I was returned the money and left with the remains. along with the data cable

thanks for the reply for some reason it did not send me a copy of the message. that makes sense I will not need that feature. Ed ke6bnl

thanks for the great site answers a lot of questions and great place to have found earlier on but was still was very helpful Ed ke6bnl

Well I want to thank all of you for your help and am averaging 50% found the 1st one with no problem and the second one I could not find anywhere so I will post my result it was fun and will definately do it again. There are probably many new tricks to learn to do it better and I will keep trying thanks again Ed ke6bl

What is the purpose of the simulator on the magellan platinum. I trid it it made a triangle to the goto point but is it a usefull feature. thanks Ed

Just got a new to me meriplat used. I found that there are several caches nearby my home. There is one a few miles away and I want to take a try at it tomarrow. I don't have the fogggest idea what I am doing. I initialized the gpsr and I put in the coordinates for the cache. and I even know that it is near a French restaurant near by. I have not as yet put in mapsend direct but from the base may I plan on getting near the cafe and then I would use the compas and the goto for the coordinate and start following the compas and distance reading, Am I close in my thinking thanks Ed

I would appreciate it also thankd Ed ke6bnl at Juno.com

what is ment by Gsak thanks Ed

sorry I am new, what is GSAK usually I can get it figured out by reading other messages thanks Ed

This stuff is way over my head I haven't bought a GPSR yet, my first choice was a Magellan Explorist 600 should I avoid this unit and does this apply to the merridian platinum also thanks. Hope to understand more once I get one and start using one thanks ED

I am intrested in a set thanks ed ke6bnl at juno.com will pay through paypal

I questioned a dealer about the Magellan Meridian Platinum GPS and was told they are no longer being made. Should that be a good enough reason not to purchase? and if that is the case what is the replacement for this gps? Has a lot of the features I thing I need as a newly intrested person to GPS>

So I bought my first GPS a Garmin Etrex Vista, well sorta. Never got it after paying $150.00 for a used one. Well ups is settleing the claim I did get a box and two cables so in reality I am a never owned a GPSer person. I have kinda narrowed it down to a , or GARMIN ETREX VISTA C COLOR GPS or a Magellan Meridian Platinum GPS. I would like to try geocacheing but my main interest is for street navigation, hiking, offroading, and fishing, and to use for mileage/speed/distance traveled, for some of my incomplete street rods and car projects. Between the two I see a color screen for the garmin but for the Magellan more for your money no color and more memory. I am not sure of how important the extra memory with the card will be to me and the Magellan doesn't seem to include a costly street map and is black and white. I probably left out many other important features that I will understand better when I get one. So let me in on your choice or another model that would seem to better suite me. I may go with a new one and put more money out since the one I purchased would have cost as much as new by the time I got the not included mapsource cd/ Thanks so much Ed in So. Calif. High desert. Agua Dulce.

I have used that stuff we call it magic fluid and feel like I know something about electronics because it has solved sooo many electrical connection problems Ed ke6bnl