dhbaird

Only had my 76CSX now since last Thursday and the two times I used it with the compass I too had to re-calibrate it both times to keep it from spinning. This was especially true as I got closer and closer to the way point I was seeking (two different bench marks on my walking route around town). One time the spinning was so bad, I turned the unit off and then turned it back on. I thought it was only me and my "magnetic personality"

I want to force the new 76CSX to re download the Almanac. is there a way to do that without having to do a complete reset on the unit?

Looking to purchase a Garmin Topo 24K National Parks East. 2002 version. Anybody not need the East Coast out there?

Are you sure you are using the same map datum setting on both units? I went back to my trusty Benchmark and tried again tonight... and on the way home I was beginning to wonder about datum and settings myself... When I entered the waypoint for all of the Benchmarks I had left it in the default datum (WGS 84) when I entered them. Even though they are NAD83 coordinates. However, when I go to find them, I switch the unit to NAD83 and start off the find waypoint while in NAD83. Should I be entering them in while I have it in NAD83 mode? Have I added error to the mix by entering them in while the unit is in WGS 84? I thought that it really did not matter what mode you were in when you entered the data, as long as you were in the correct mode when you went looking for it. But if that is the case, I don't understand why the previous unit was so gosh darn dead on. No wandering, 6 feet off max as I made my rounds past the 4 different bench marks that are on my walking route. When I take a look at the track log while I had the unit sitting on top of the bench mark for 10 minutes the thing was jumping all over the place. You could distinctly see the Benchmark waypoint 50 or so feet away (to the south east) I created a waypoint with 150 samples while it was sitting on top of the bench mark and then did a goto the bench mark and it told me on the screen that I was 62 feet way. I am going to retry at one of the other BMarks nearby that has no tree cover and full views for about 300 degrees around it. Altitude calibration was off too tonight too. Unit said 354 feet while the Bench mark is 328.6. I recalibrated the altimeter using the BM and then went to the next one and checked it and the newly calibrated unit was off by 4-5 feet. The old 76Cs was only off by 1-2 feet after calibration.

I just got my 76CSX today. Upgraded to the 2.62 Firmware. Uploaded the maps and waypoints from my backup of the 76cs and then hooked it up to an external antenna in my car and let it sit for an hour for a lhour or so to d/l of the almanac. After letting it sit for that much time I went to my local BenchMark that is in down the street. Boy was I disappointed! My older 76Cs brought me to within 6 feet doing the same thing. The new, just out of the box 76csx brought me 58 to 75 feet away! ( Could not really tell because the unit kept pointing me to walk out into the middle of a busy street. Then I went and sat on the BM and calibrated the altimeter. This was a bit better, only about 5-8 feet off. While I put the GPSr on the BM surface it was still saying that the location for the BM was 60 feet away. I turned on WAAS and at one point it showed all sat's with D's. Accuracy it reported on screen was 6-9 feet. But it was way off physically from the BM. I turned WAAS off again after that. Sooo is this as good as it gets with this firmware? If so that sucks! What good is a fast acquire of the signal if it takes you to the wrong place?

Is not using "follow roads" and "lock on roads" something new or is it something that always worked that way? I have always used the Find waypoint to drive to a cache location first. Then when I park switch to GeoCache mode. Somehow that was more intuitive. But the last cache I did was very close to another, so when my 76cs asked me, "goto the next nearest?" I answered "yes" and off I went. Since it was walking distance (about 1/2 mile away) I walked there... but many times the next cache is not walking distance away. Are you saying that when I say "yes" to that question that the only screen that will work will be the compass screen with distance to get to the cache? I've only done about 6 caches with my unit so far, so I haven't had much opportunity to see what works and how it works when you are doing multiple caches in a day. I have a day like that planned in a couple of days from now, where I hope to take in 3 or more. It would help to know if I need to say no to that question if I have to drive to the next cache.

I have the beta firmware file ready to load in this afternoon. I have Sputnik's page savedin my favorites already. But I am interested in your comment "save a few megs for the gpx files"... Are you talking about uploading from GSAK or something similar or are you actually saying that the gpx files can be copied directly to the card? I haven't even broached the subject of the compat. between GSAK and the new 76csx. Can I upload directly through GSAK or do I have to bring them into Mapsource and then into the GPSr?

Do I keep WAAS on or Off? Does Track up work or not? Any other default settings that might give me trouble with the 2.62 Beta release? I went from 60CS to 60CSx and there's very little new information to absorb. I leave WAAS on, although isn't actually working much of the time (but the accuracy is amazing anyway). Track Up works just fine. I've found nothing on the downside since using 2.62. thanks... that is the information I was looking for.

Learn how to use it. Will not do you any good if you do not spend some time with it and familiarize yourself with the functions of the unit. I am hoping that my 3 1/2 month stint with a 76CS will solve that part of the equation. I was more interested in hearing from folks that have the new X models who have been talking about turning certain things off and on while the unit firmware is still has bugs. Like I hope that the SIRF people and Garmin will post a fix to having to turn the unit completely off and then back on if the unit loses satellites. In the meantime, while we are waiting for those kind of fixes... Do I keep WAAS on or Off? Does Track up work or not? Any other default settings that might give me trouble with the 2.62 Beta release? I loved my 76Cs... I just need more memory than it came with and I am planning on a couple different MicroSD chips with different sets of maps, routes, tracks and custom POI's loaded so I can quickly swap between work routing and travel and gong hiking and GeoCaching. I just don't want to get frustrated with settings that other folks know don't work.

Are people using the Garmin Auto Updater program to load in the 2.62 beta or are they doing it manually by downloading the file and unzipping it and clicking on Updater?

TSystemonline seems to be charging a lot for shipping too don't you think? I have a 1 gig MicroSD on pre-order from Amazon... they are not saying when they are going to ship yet, but if others are shipping them out I am hoping that it can not be too far away.. Has anybody else done a pre-order someplace and gotten theirs?

So I get the fact that the unlock code goes with my 76CS that I have sold and Garmin won't un-associate it from my City Select package. I also get that I will be using up my "spare" to unlock the software on my new unit arriving. Given all that, how or what do I give to the buyer of my 76CS so they get the full benefit of the unlock code that is now associated with it? I noticed an option to have create a back-up file of the unlock code in the unlock wizard with Mapsource. Do I run that and give them a copy of that file on a floppy? Is there some number someplace I should be writing down and sending with the unit? Just want to send the right stuff to the new buyer so they can get up and running ASAP.

My new 76CSX arrives tomorrow via Fed ex. I have to be up and running in a very little time as I hit the road for a business trip later the next day. Given the bugs that people are reporting what should I do to avoid problems wheil I am out on the road. Which firmwre should I be looking for? Any set-up tweaks I should do to make things go more smoothly as we wait for the other patches? I have backed my old unit up, have all the routes for this trip pre-planned in MapSource and ready for a d/l. Have the Geocache stuff ready in GSAK. Other recommendations?

Right now my understanding is that both the 60Cx and the 76Cx models have a firmware based limit on the number of segments that you can load. 2,025 segments is one figure mentioned. Don't know about the other x based units, but it might be the same there too. If the Navigator segments are 15 times bigger than City Select, then I would think that the total number of segments for Navigator to cover the same amount of the country would be 1/15. That means that with a large card and a 15-1 ratio that you can cover a lot more of the country with Navigator before you worry about hitting that # of segments ceiling. Am I understanding this issue correctly or am I missing something in the formula? Maybe that is the real reason they are moving away from City Select. With the new platform on their units moving to the "x" factor for storage, segment size should no longer be an issue. Just get a larger MicroSD and you can fit the larger segment sizes no problem. At the same time if the 1025 is a chipset limitation on the number of segments than you need to decrease the number of segment by increasing their size.

With the ability to use 512 meg and 1 gig MicroSd Flashcards in the 60csx is there any reason not to go with the Navigator? It would seem like if you could reduce the number of "segments" that you get get more data on the card that way. Are there any other differences between Select and Navigator other than the segment size?

With the ability to use 512 meg and 1 gig MicroSd Flashcards in the 60csx is there any reason not to go with the Navigator? It would seem like if you could reduce the number of "segments" that you get get more data on the card that way. Are there any other differences between Select and Navigator other than the segment size?

Eagle Scout here. Went to Valley Forge National Jamboree in 1964, Philmont in 67. Was an Explorer Scout as well and our Post travelled pretty far and wide in marksmenship competitions. I became a Scout Master during the 1970's. and took my troop to summer camp where I was the Orienteering Merit Badge Counselor. Currently am Institutional Rep. right now for a Scout Troop and Cub Pack. Our troop had 6 Eagle Scouts in the past 12 months!

$350.00 plus shipping A fair price. You're not going to throw in the unlock code for CS for free? hmm-hmm? Found out that the lock code goes with it, whether I want it to or not. So yes the lock code goes with. I haven't tried to copy the DVD for City Select yet, can it be done?

PEM is on the way!

And on that volume, iis it possible/practical to copy GPS data directly? I have directed a Map d/l from Mapsource to the SD which appears on the list as a device. It is much, much faster to do it this way. Probably took me 10% of the time as when I d/l to the Garmin directly. It does appear that waypoints, routes and tracks need to be loaded through the unit. Garmin just released a new custom POI uploader and I think that they go to the SD while in the unit as well. Will find that out next week.

Okay I got everything but the filter and 4 files. Do you filter for certain types of Caches? What does filtering and splitting the caches into 4 groups help you do better in cachemate? I have three groups of waypoints in GSAK that I'd like to keep separate in Cachemate. LocalCaches for Geocaching nearby, one for my personal contacts and travel (like tmy daughter's home in NJ), and finally a Geocache group for when I travel. It would be nice to segregate them in Cachemate so I don't have to scroll through my Caribbean Caches when I am looking for one in the next town,

I used ArcView to manipulate the the shapefile. Then GPSMapedit to modify the map settings. I then used cgpsmapper to create the actual .img map file and the necessary preview files to have the map appear in mapsource (only time I used command line "cgpsmapper pv AT.txt"). What I was actually thinking about was creating a master map set of trails contributed by the general public. You want the map, donate your track logs, type agreement. Then, I just keep updating the map files, and it keeps growing and growing. I realize there are plenty of sites where people contribute various track logs and trips. but, I haven;t seen a group effort for a Garmin Map to be used in Mapsource and loaded on Garmin Mapping GPSr. In due time, and with enough money, the trails even be routable (routable version of commercial cGPSMapper costs $2500 euro). I'm going to do some more testing of the map and tuning of an install/update script to see if it is doable. Look for a post in the next few days about the project. Then, if there is enough interest, I'll get it off the ground. Thanks for the update... I have another couple of questions. The topo set of maps I have from Garmin do not have trail data to speak of. So doing routing on top of a trail is next to impossible. Does the 24K version of the maps allow you to route on trails? If Garmin Topo 24K NP does not allow trail routing do you know of a 24k topo program that does where I can somehow get a route into Mapsource and eventually into my GPSr? I do have Delorme Topo 3d (version 3.0, at least 6 years old) and it has routable trails. My version of Topo 3d will not recognize the Garmin USB port, so I can not upload the route that way. Do you know of another way to export the route from Delorme, change it into some kind of format that will be importable into Mapsource or the GPS?

You are correct, Mapsource only sends the waypoints if that is all you used to create the route. Then when you use that route on the GPS it will recalculate and the route it finds may differ by quite a bit from the route you saw on the computer. If youi used the route tool and selected certain via points, then Mapsource sends those as "hidden" waypoints and what you saw on your mapsource screen on the computer will more closely match the route that your GPS recalculates.

OK, no problem creating simple transparent map of Appalachian Trail based upon Centerline Data Shapefile from AT site. So how did you do it? Which programs, OZI, GPSMAPEDIT or something else? Care to share the command lines you used if it was something that went dos mode on you?

One of the questions I got from an Ebayer on my 76Cs is from a person in Europe. Is it possible to change the basemap if they buy it?