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    Thanks for the tips. I had been geocaching with a friend (and his Magellan 315) and it always got us within 2 or 3 feet of the cache. I was hoping that my GPS unit would be even more accurate than his older model. But, can anyone explain why the unit said I was 50 feet away from my car... which I had just marked (with the same unit) 10 minutes earlier? Anyway, I'll try the tips- maybe turning it off and on will help. Maybe wrapping it in red meat will help... I don't see how, but, heck, I'll still new to geocaching. --John
  2. JHoagland
    Thanks for the tips. I had been geocaching with a friend (and his Magellan 315) and it always got us within 2 or 3 feet of the cache. I was hoping that my GPS unit would be even more accurate than his older model. But, can anyone explain why the unit said I was 50 feet away from my car... which I had just marked (with the same unit) 10 minutes earlier? Anyway, I'll try the tips- maybe turning it off and on will help. Maybe wrapping it in red meat will help... I don't see how, but, heck, I'll still new to geocaching. --John
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    I bought a Meridian GPS unit recently, upgraded the firmware, uploaded some cache waypoints, and then took it geocaching. As I got out in the park and started searching for the cache, though, I noticed that the accuracy was WAY off. The unit took near the cache, but when I saw the cache, the unit said I was still 32 feet away. And when I was signing my name to the log, the unit's distance started dropping, but finally stopped at 12 feet. Yes, I was under some trees, but I should still be within 2-3 feet, since I was standing *on top* of the cache. I then backtracked to my car (which I had previously marked), and when I got there, my unit said I was 52 feet away! And, as I made notes about the cache I had just found (without moving anywhere), the distance fell again, down to 12 feet, but it never got down to 0 feet. Does anyone have any good ideas why the unit would display the information like this? The whole time I was geocaching, I was getting strong signals from 7 satellites. --John
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