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I have a Oregon 200 and find it very dark, annoyingly so. If it weren't for the touchscreen, intuitive interface and paperless caching, I'd sell it. You could create seperate GPX files for organizing. I believe the max. is 100 GPX files and max. 1000 points. Not sure. Yes. :-) I had a screen protector on mine since I bought it, not sure. I recently switched protectors in an attempt to see the screen better.

I once lost reception and couldn't get it back. Powering down fixed it. I had my Oregon 200 in a back pack and placed it down at the base of an old dam, with tree cover. Some message stated the signal was weak or lost or something. When I got in a good area without tree cover the unit couldn't seem to get any satellite. The little bar(s) on the sat page looked like they were locking on, but would just disappear. Has onlt happened once to me so far.

I have read logs of people logging as found based on finding the canvas that once covered the now missing cache...at least they assumed it was covering a cache. Kind of pathetic to be honest.

Bring a digital voice recorder with you, it's a lot easier than pen and paper or using those pda's. Real men have at least 5 devices, arrrr.

*double post*

After you find a cache, you can add a comment to the cache on your GPSr. These comments are called field notes on gc.com and you can upload them. Look for a Access my Field Notes link in your account details.

Is the memory issue really a big deal? I'm seeing differences in price of over 100 bucks between the 200 and 300. I don't have much interest in the wireless or compass/barometer....so could I buy the 200 and add my 1 gig microsd card and done? I will be buying the maps on DVD.

Ha, you read my mind. This is what I posted at a geocache forum I frequent... I know myself, I'm a prankster. I love hiding wired magazine behind other magazines at the newsstand.

On that same menu you will see "Export to Magellan eXplorist..."

No problems with mine, close to a year. I have the occasional unexplained shutdown, but that's it.

I just put mine in a coat pocket in the winter, or in my backpack in the summer. I've never had reception problems at all (explorist 210).

I let my wife use her visa to buy me a gpsmap 60cx also to avoid shopping, can't wait. It didn't involve any violent acts either.

Did "letting" him buy you this gift involve any type of headlock?

I noticed that too, hints cut off. Usually the hints didn't work on my 210 either anyways. I get the gpx via a pocket query, I bring it into GSAK then export it to my 210 and my PDA I bought off ebay for 25 bucks. About the only thing I use GSAK for is converting/exporting files to my GPSr and PDA.

Hehe, not always. I come across trackables that are placed by young children, usually like a class or a scouts troop, etc.. I figure they get excited and want to see any activity so I discover those if I don't take the item to move along.

I get to the general area, look up at the tree cover, check my gpsr for accuracy, and then put it down on the ground for a good 5 minute or more while I do the obvious checks in tree holes. I go back to my gpsr and see if there's any changes. I've also learned not to trust the cache owners accuracy of cache placement.

Is this your first GPSr? I'd like to know about that model.

The lottery ticket part might be from the fact that a scratch ticket is put in the cache for the FTF, at least where I am (quebec) that happens. I've only seen 1 or 2 people win a buck or something.

How are logging delays handled at gc.com in regards to TB's and geocoins? Conceivably I could go on vacation and drob a coin in a cache that I will not get to log for several weeks. In that time, several people could grab this coin and pass it along, logging all the way. The first person to find it will not see it in the cache as per gc.com as I have not logged it yet.

Rectal-Cranial Inversion. LMAO. The guy's an idiot with anger issues, you can't win any argument with him. Don't feed the trolls, it's what they want.

That's what happened to me. Even if I hit my 500 cache limit, the ones missing were'nt based on distance from center point, which I gave as a postal code.

I had Ontario only selected at the time, probably reason why. I manually enterted the two original missing caches into gsak, problem solved.

I wish it were that simple. Just ran another test for fun using GCTY96 as the centerpoint. It didn't show up. I wonder if it's distance related or something...anything. I'm probably overlooking something, hmm.

Yeah, I thought about that and upped the limits. In one test I got back 78 of a possible 100 caches... all around those two caches.

Now it works. Two days of trying to get them listed and it works now. It works by using my postal code too. I still have no idea why they didn't show until now. *sigh*