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  1. Front page of the San Jose Mercury news (known for being techy) has a very positive article. Pretty neat. Right beside the United going bankrupt headline. Maybe it's a slow new day?. Anyways, couldn't find the article online, but here's a picture of the front page. =) http://www.sportsflea.com/cgi-bin/snapshot/merc/front/page1a.cgi
  2. With new alkalines and if the unit gets hot I've had it pop up a box saying "Lost external power, press a key in 30 seconds or I'll turn off". My 295 does this when I unplug it and since that unit has 2 hours battery life it's great. Unfortunatly it seems touchy the etrex. Using NiHM solves that problem! (they're 1.2 volts vs 1.5 so it doesn't trigger the circuitry) So perhaps sitting on the dash it got hot and did the same thing?
  3. With new alkalines and if the unit gets hot I've had it pop up a box saying "Lost external power, press a key in 30 seconds or I'll turn off". My 295 does this when I unplug it and since that unit has 2 hours battery life it's great. Unfortunatly it seems touchy the etrex. Using NiHM solves that problem! (they're 1.2 volts vs 1.5 so it doesn't trigger the circuitry) So perhaps sitting on the dash it got hot and did the same thing?
  4. To be frank, I've never been hiking anywhere with cell phone reception. If you're in the city fine, but anywhere else why bother?
  5. The first thing to verify with WAAS is your ability to receive it. Garmin GPS receivers will show you on the satalite page by showing a D in the satalite column if that satalite is having WAAS correction applied. Not sure on the others. I used to have WAAS turned on in the plane gps to see if it worked. Above the hills at >2500 feet I receive pretty good WAAS signal. On the ground I've only seen it once or twice, but I had a great view of the sky. When you're at 5,000 feet doing 180mph who cares if your EPE is 4 feet? If the update interval is 1 second, I'm 260 feet away the next second. =) Does help on altitude though. WAAS is intended as an aviation aid, and in handheld gps receiver it's just a marking gimmic, IMNHO. Probably fairly easy to add, just a little programming.
  6. Can't speak for the Legend reception, but I own a Vista (almost identical), GPSMAP 295 and a old Megellan Skymap. I use the Vista for geocaching and have never had serious problems with reception in even dense tree cover, if I keep the anetnna exposed. Sure, my EPE may fall to 30 feet, but that's to be expected. Keeping the antenna out and clear is important. If it's hanging down, hidden behind your body then you can expect problems. That's why a lot of gps have external antennas. The gpsmap 295 has the best reception with it remote mount active antenna. With the little stick antenna it's a tad better than Vista. The SkyMap looses lock if you look at it wrong. Honestly though, it's all in the antenna. When it's built in with no external jacks you do limit your options.
  7. Can't speak for the Legend reception, but I own a Vista (almost identical), GPSMAP 295 and a old Megellan Skymap. I use the Vista for geocaching and have never had serious problems with reception in even dense tree cover, if I keep the anetnna exposed. Sure, my EPE may fall to 30 feet, but that's to be expected. Keeping the antenna out and clear is important. If it's hanging down, hidden behind your body then you can expect problems. That's why a lot of gps have external antennas. The gpsmap 295 has the best reception with it remote mount active antenna. With the little stick antenna it's a tad better than Vista. The SkyMap looses lock if you look at it wrong. Honestly though, it's all in the antenna. When it's built in with no external jacks you do limit your options.
  8. quote:This is easily our favorite cache in the bay area. Final cache container is huge, and it contains a travel bug that's been there for a couple of weeks now (it's about time someone moved it along I think). I was there last weekend and I didn't see any travel bug. Didn't look really hard, but there's a log from someone who found the cache by accident saying they took a key chain. Maybe they took the travel bug?
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