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I have the 60cs, just got it last week. This thing must have a great antenna because I'm sitting in my living room and get a lock on at least 4 satellites - usually more - right now it's 6. I was not expecting to get any kind of satellite reception in the house based on all I've read here. Susan

I thought this sounded familiar, so I started looking around and I found this: When you press FIND » 'Waypoints' » ENTR, the GPSr defaults to showing only the nearest 50 waypoints. If you've loaded a waypoint and it isn't showing up, from the waypoint list press MENU. From the menu, press 'Find by Name' » ENTR. All waypoints will then be listed in alphabetical order. Alternatively, from the menu, press 'Change Reference' » ENTR. The map will then appear, allowing you to select a new point from which the GPSr will find the nearest 50 waypoints. This is issue is discussed in the forum here and here. Hope this helps. Thank you so much!!! So nice to be able to come to this forum and get answers to dumb questions!!! I've been learning so much reading the links people give with their answers. Thanks again, Susan

There are several possibilities: do you have a filter set in GSAK? When you look on the status bar at the bottom, do you see a total of 50 or 100 (the total of the four cells that you see there is what you should be loaded). If the GPS load dialog says it is loading 100, then that is what it is doing. The GPS, may be doing something with them that you are not expecting. If you try to load two waypoints with the exactly the same coordinates, then it may well be simply changing the name of the first one with the next one that has the same coords. There may be other reasons. It's hard to diagnose without more info. Okay, here is what I just did - opened Mapsource and sent all the waypoints from the 60cs to Mapsource - there are 100 of them. So I deleted everything from the Garmin and sent the waypoints from mapsource to the Garmin - it only shows 50 on there. I set the smart name thing to 10 and tried again - same thing - only 50 show on the Garmin even though there are 100 - it shows 100 in GSAK. Just went to the map page and all 100 are on the map - if I move the cursor to one that is not in the list and then go back to find geocaches that one that the cursor is on will be on the top of the page, but there are only 50 listed again, it appears to be the 50 closest to the one that I'm pointing to. Does that make sense??? So they are all in the Garmin, but the only way I can see them is to move around the map - then only 50 will show in the list when I go to find. Is that normal??? Thanks for the help and suggestions. Susan Susan, I think you will find the answer to your question in the FAQ I posted. Do you read that post ? Clyde - thank you!! Apparently I stopped reading too soon. I went back and reread the whole page and saw that 50 is the maximum it will show. Learned lots more too!!! Thanks again!! Susan

There are several possibilities: do you have a filter set in GSAK? When you look on the status bar at the bottom, do you see a total of 50 or 100 (the total of the four cells that you see there is what you should be loaded). If the GPS load dialog says it is loading 100, then that is what it is doing. The GPS, may be doing something with them that you are not expecting. If you try to load two waypoints with the exactly the same coordinates, then it may well be simply changing the name of the first one with the next one that has the same coords. There may be other reasons. It's hard to diagnose without more info. Okay, here is what I just did - opened Mapsource and sent all the waypoints from the 60cs to Mapsource - there are 100 of them. So I deleted everything from the Garmin and sent the waypoints from mapsource to the Garmin - it only shows 50 on there. I set the smart name thing to 10 and tried again - same thing - only 50 show on the Garmin even though there are 100 - it shows 100 in GSAK. Just went to the map page and all 100 are on the map - if I move the cursor to one that is not in the list and then go back to find geocaches that one that the cursor is on will be on the top of the page, but there are only 50 listed again, it appears to be the 50 closest to the one that I'm pointing to. Does that make sense??? So they are all in the Garmin, but the only way I can see them is to move around the map - then only 50 will show in the list when I go to find. Is that normal??? Thanks for the help and suggestions. Susan

Hi everyone!!! I just got my Garmin 60cs yesterday and I went out today and found my first cache - what fun!!! I got a pocket query today with 100 caches, which are showing up just fine in GSAK. But when I try to send them to the 60cs only 50 of them are being sent. When I'm sending it shows 1 to 100. Am I doing something wrong??? I was under the impression that the 60cs would hold a lot of .gpx files. Thanks for any help!! Susan

Oh my goodness - I feel like such a dunce!!!! Thank you so much!!! Susan

Hi all, I'm new here. I just received my Garmin GPSMAP 60cs last night and I've been reading the manual and playing with it a little. I don't have maps for it yet - that will be a purchase I'll make in a couple of weeks. I downloaded GSAK and got some waypoints for caches close by. Now I'm trying to send them to my Garmin from my laptop but I keep getting an error message - can't init com3. When I connect the Garmin to the laptop and check setup in GSAK it shows COM3. Am I doing something wrong?? I don't know how to find the COM number for my USB. Can someone help??? When I try to send and receive from Mapsource I have no problem. Is there a way to put the waypoints into Mapsource from Geocaching.com and then sending them to the Garmin??? This is all new to me and I'm a little confused - I have a lot of reading to do!!! Thanks much for any help!!! Susan