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No price no Sale !!!! Or not, smart guy! Sold!

I have a NIB Palm T/X that was only opened to make sure that it was functional before offering for sale. I won it in a drawing at a teachers conference. I will entertain offers for this. You can look at the Palm website for its features, but it does do Wi-Fi, and is color. If you have any questions or want to make an offer PM me please. BMP

You can also push the button on the center of the wheel when you have selected a cache, then the cache description will come up with the soft key that will allow you to check for logs/hints. I usually forget and do it the long way, but this is less navigtion.

First of all, I am no expert, so anything that I say is simply my opinion. That said, to my knowledge, you have to hook all of them to the computer in some way to get caches to show up. The only instrument that I know of that works as you described is a GPS-enabled Blackberry phone with Trimble's Geocache Navigator installed ($30 per year). Secondly, I own both the Colorado 300 and the PN-40, and if you can manipulate the necessary tools to load the caches, remove the caches, and track your caching, then both are excellent units. I know that you can get on the forums and find others that will point you to problems with both, but remember that there are many happy users out there that don't visit the forums because they have nothing to complain about. The Garmin is somewhat easier to use if you know nothing about technology, but the PN-40 is great if you are comfortable exploring technology and learning as you go. The Colorado presently allows me to log my caches as I find them, then put them into my database easily. The PN-40 does not presently do this, but it is very accurate in the field, and the maps that are available to download are awesome. My daughter uses a Etrex Summit HC. She is a casual cacher, so she doesn't keep a database or need downloadable maps, and the unit takes her to the cache very accurately. I say all of that to tell you that your level of involvement in caching should dictate which unit you get for caching. I would hesitate to spend $300-$400 for a geocaching instrument unless that is your only or most intense hobby, especially when GPSr's are available for much less that will get you to the cache. At the same time, if you are going to jump right in and be a 2-3 (or more) day a week cacher, then get the best you can afford. I really don't think you could go wrong with any that you listed, and I know for sure that you can find someone on here to tell you something terrible about each one, as well as someone to tell you that each one is the best GPSr out there. Go to a store like Cabela's or REI where you can hold them in your hand and see just which one feels best to you, or find some cachers in your area that have the various ones that interest you the most, and ask if they will let you join them on a cache or two to check out their GPSr. I hope this has been some help to you, and good luck finding the right match. BMP

Thank you very much. That did it. I knew I had to be missing something, but just could not figure it out. It is okay to close this discussion as my question has been answered.

I have a coin that I am trying to make available to a friend for adoption. When I try to use the link, I get a red message that says # not recognized. When I enter the same number for the coin on the trackable page, the coin comes up, just not on the adoption page. What am I missing here? What am I doing wrong? Thanks. BMP

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At present, I own both the Colorado 300 and the PN-40. I have used both for caching and both for navigating and both for hunting. I realize that the CO is not the OR, but it does have the same Garmin interfaces. Although there is a steep learning curve for the PN-40/Topo 7, it far exceeds anything the Garmin can do with Mapsource or any other mapping software. Secondly, the PN-40 can actually USE its electronic compass in any position, another claim that the Garmin can't make. In fact, I had to disable my electronic compass on the CO to improve the speed and accuracy I needed when caching. Finally, in side-by-side caching experiences of about 150 caches since I got the PN-40, it has been more accurate and faster to zero me in on the caches than the CO. Now, on the converse, the PN-40 can't hold a candle to the CO on screen size (it is easier to read than one might think, and it does redraw very fast). Secondly, at the present, the Garmin far exceeds the 40 in on-road navigation skills/routing. Finally, although DeLorme is promising an exciting geocaching firmware update, at the present, the Garmin is better for managing the caches from gc.com to GPSr, logging your find, and logging the caches back into gc.com. Battery performance is about the same in both under normal use. Now, I have a year of experience with the CO, and a month of experience with the 40, so at this point, I feel more comfortable with the CO overall, but I am loving the existing performance of the 40 on the trail, its maps, and the potential that it has as a caching machine when the firmware updates come. It will probably never replace the CO in the vehicle, but at the cache and on the trail, it has already proven its mettle. When/if I can log my finds from it to gc.com, it will be the overall winner in that regard. I hope this helps. If you have questions, PM me and I will answer what I can.

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I do not have a Vista Hcx, but I do have a PN-40 and a Colorado. I think for what you are wanting it for the PN-40 will be the ticket. The maps and level of accuracy on those maps that are available for the PN-40 are unmatched by anything Garmin can offer. Just my opinion.

Do you take Paypal, or what type of payment are you wanting?

I never had the 60CsX to compare with, so I have been extremely pleased with my Colorado. I think I am in your area, and would be glad to meet you and let you try a couple of caches with the CO if you wanted. Camping Crazy, ABrimberry, and birddog14 in our area are all using Colorados, so if you know one of them, you could contact them, also. I think they all upgraded from 60CsX units. Let me know if you are interested in trying out my CO. I have loved it, in spite of some bad reviews and problems that are discussed here on the forums.

Gotcha! Like I said, I wasn't sure that I was on mark with my information or what was being asked. I moved straight from the eTrex Legend C to the Colorado, so much of time, when folks are talking about the 60CsX, I have no clue what they have been able to do. I have enjoyed reading all of your hard work and research on both the Colorado and the Oregon. I am a very happy CO owner, so the Oregon is not in my near future, but whatever state comes after that might be a possibility. Keep up the great work!

I have been able to use customized icons as waypoints on my Colorado, for instance, on all of my found caches, I took a smiley, used paint to make it blue rather than yellow, and now all of my finds show up as blue smileys. This may have nothing to do with the question, but the Colorado does support more than the open and closed treasure chest if you enter waypoints rather than caches. I only use the customized for found caches, but have experimented otherwise. BiT helped walk me through this process using the icons, GSAK, and the Garmin's POI loader.

I have had mine since January 24th, and I have loved it! Every software upgrade has made it better, and I am sure that Garmin will continue to improve it. It feels great in your hand and once you get used to the wheel and the menus, it works like a part of you. I can't imagine going back to my old GPSr, also an eTrex. I think that you will be extremely happy with your purchase of a Colorado 300.

I am with DocDitto. I didn't expect that when I bought my Colorado in January that it would be the last Garmin ever developed, so none of this bothers me at all. If you buy a laptop today or a big screen TV today, it is obsolete tomorrow... that is the way technology works! I have cached since January with my Colorado, and like others, have experienced the evolution and steady improvement of the software while finding over 400 caches with it. I have never expected it to be perfect, but it is much better than what I had before and it is continuously improving. I applaud Garmin for getting an even newer and better GPSr on the market, and I trust that they will continue to take care of the progressive improvement of my Colorado in the process. Heck, they still even have an occasional update for my wife's c330, and it is several years obsolete. Keep 'em coming, Garmin, and thanks for being at the cutting edge! I LOVE my Colorado, and at this point would not even consider trading it for the Oregon!

YES!!

My Colorado 300 bought in January. 469 MB (10 times more storage than the first PC I ever owned)

I usually will visit and DNF the cache a couple of times before asking for an owner hint, but if I have given it a good look and not found it a couple of time, I am glad to try to get a hint from the owner... sometimes they give me a mysterious hint, and sometimes it is better than that, but they are usually very glad to give a hint. I have hunted for up to 45 minutes at one spot when I knew that it was a very difficult hide. If I get to GZ and actually look for the cache, I log a DNF every time that I visit and look. If I get nearby, but decide that the cover is too much for what I am wearing, or too many muggles or in the area, etc. I will post a note to indicate I was in the area, but I will not log a DNF since I didn't hunt for the cache at GZ. I clearly think that the location, size and difficulty of the cache, and the available time that I have for caching on a given day are HUGE factors in how long I will search.

I also tried to use the Macro, "ColoradoExport.gsk" and with that I get the message: Successfully exported 0 geocaches to Colorado in file: caches.gpx" No geocaches show up in my unit. Can someone explain in more explicit details what I need to do? I'm anxious to try it in the field. I was having this same problem after I updated to v. 1 of the macro from version .96. If you will look, one of the cells has "Number of caches to load" in it. For some reason mine was set to zero. When I changed it to the number of caches I wanted to load from GSAK, then they loaded. I felt really amateurish when I realized the solution was that easy. Check it out and see if that is what is happening. Good luck. BMP

I am with you guys. I bought City Navigator NT 2008 on an SD card in March. When I saw that they had come out with 2009, I emailed customer service that I wished I had known they were going to release 2009 so quickly. They told me to send in the 08 and they would send me the 09. Now that's what I call service. Thanks, Garmin.

I am almost embarrassed to say this, and I am not doubting the number of strokes and turns it shows here, but it doesn't seem like that much to me when I am caching. I either have gotten very comfortable with the necessarry moves, or I am doing something different. The next time I am out, I will check to see what I am doing. I have had my CO since Jan. 24 and found over 300 caches with it since then, so maybe it is just automatic with me at this point, but I will check.

Thanks, I have loaded it and cannot wait to try it out! This will be awesome!

I would love a copy of this to play with. Please post a link to it. Thanks.

I ordered mine online at GPSnow.com. I generally get 10-12 feet, and less if I set it down and leave it for a while. Once it has been on and outside awhile, even when moving around it stays within 15 - 20 feet. It could easily have something to do with satellite constellation, also. My previous model would show greater accuracy, but was not near as accurate with 5 ft showing as my Colorado is with 15-20' showing... if that makes sense.