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Better check if your phone will work in Europe. From Canada it is not obvious.

I concur, a small laptop is the way to go. Look for FON WiFi plus all the free hotspot available in hotel, restaurant etc... To improve WiFi reception, you can also get an AlfaNetwork external WiFi (awus036h) adapter. Besides it gives also video/phone capability via Skype ! Saves on your bills !

The GPS is screwed up because of these stupid measures you use, feet, yard , miles etc ... You can't do the math, so why should the GPS ? PS: It has already been discussed and explained over and over.

Why don't you work in "centipedes" ? Amazing, and we are in the 21th century !

Polypropylene liner socks with heavy wool socks over top. The inner socks wick the sweat away from your skin to help prevent blisters. +1. I learned to love liner socks when I was orienteering; prevented a whole lotta blisters. Boot fit of course BUT a GOOD pair of socks, in fact two pairs, one thin first and heavy cotton second

Well we told her we didn't get the memo so until the Frog tells us otherwise we'll hide what we like. I really don't care what she had to say, but it did make me wonder if the outdoors side of caching so being outdated. So my question is, has caching change as a whole? Are the longer hikes become more of a thing of the past? I have caches that require little to no hiking but that's not why they are there, so I get that. However has the 'culture' of caching changed so much that a hike is not a good thing anymore in the minds of many? [but like I told her, it doesn't matter I'll still hide what I like.] Funny, I just came here with the intend to start a similar thread and found this one. I have the same feeling looking at the few logs my caches rated 3 stars got compared to newer one far simpler. When I started in Geocaching, most of the caches I did were quite challenging and I was looking for them. Straightforward, if you look at older caches, generally you find a better mix of easy and complex caches. Today, it seems that the easy one pop up all over like weed. OK if the place is worthwhile a visit but often not the case anymore with the increased density. More lazy people or less educated ? Could be. But anyway, it is not really the problem, any one can have fun. The point is, how to identify the challenging caches from the lamp post and drive in ones where the only difficulty is to be able to find a small box in a pile of rubles, tree stumps, etc... When I read that some even complain that their GPS doesn't put them on top of the cache while they don't have the slightest understanding of the technology involved and its complexity, I am baffled. There should be a way from the maps to identify the challenging caches without having to go through the description. Note that the "favorite" rating may not be enough as many popular caches are simple one that brings more visitors, so more votes. Complex caches require also more preparation and maintenance, sometime I wonder if it is still worth to go through the hassle to maintain them. But then, when I read the enthusiastic comments from the few who managed to complete them, I continue. And don't speak about "out of date" speak about "sophisticated" caches And what kind of argument is that "get with the times" ??? More and more people who can barely read, write and even walk, is that what it means ? And you are right not to care, nothing wrong to prefer quality, challenge, difficulty and BE AN INDEPENDENT MIND refusing the rule of mediocrity ! There was a time when people didn't "get with the times", they were making it !

For sure driving while reading a paper map stuck on the wheel is far more secure than listening to the instructions given by a GPS ! Oh, may be, it is usually a woman's voice, that is distracting !

It locks up because it is trying to figure out how the heck it has to use feet, yard and miles, compute scale, distance etc... ! Can you ? Garmin hired back the people responsible for the Mars lander crash, didn't you know ?

So some smart finance guru buys a piece of derelict real estate hoping to make a big profit by developing it but find out that his little neighbors don't accept the nuisance he creates ! Oh, big surprise, they are not so irrelevant and fight back ! Looks like the FCC did not do his jib either. What should be said to him is: OK, mister guru, bite the bullet, take your loss and move on, you can't win every time. Learn to consult first the engineers, the experts, they are in fact the real guys creating all what you use and cash on ! Or take your chance, piss off the GPS users community and face even heavier loss ! What happens again to companies when the finance gurus replace the inventors, scientists, engineers ?

Exactly ! So many people complaining, accusing while the fault lies in their inability to use an equipment, read a manual, or understand ! Not many people daring to tell them either ! You got to present supporting evidences, facts to support a claim ! And you better be careful when you accuse ! Based on the elements presented, the OP should have asked for help in understanding what was happening.

Some years back, I had to do the same on topo maps. I suppose you mean the number used to name the img file ? If yes, it doesn't seem related to the contents but look like just a number choosen according to Garmin internal naming convention, all files pertaining to the same "map" being in sequence. The sequence follows the way the map tile appears, left to right, top to bottom. To determine which one you have to edit, the easiest I found was to do a string search for some known name of cities, road, place ...

??? You don't have plumber supplies store in Australia ? half an ozie, is it half an Autralian ? Just get some silicone grease used to lube faucet O rings !!!! Lubricant used in air and paintball guns are alos silicone based and fine too.

When I see people using miles, feet, inches speaking about "accuracy", I just smile !

I'm gonna try that this weekend and compare. See what happens. Your current GPS does not give you 15m off the cache position but 15m off the position given by the Oregon ! As proposed, you have to try again with both GPS and pick up a time when sattelites are in the optimum configuration. Trimble provides software to determine this. Yet, don't expect sub meter accuracy, 3 - 4m is the norm for our kind of GPS. Indeed the landmass of Japan has moved because of the earthquake. Up to 4 m in some place(feet are for walking, not measuring ).

Why not learn to read a manual, metric, etc... It helps you know ? Gee sometime I wonder !

I just look to it and I got 0.00 for GPS SW version I did the webupload on the garmin site for the Soft ver 4.0 but the GPS SW version remain 0.00 Did I do some thing wrong? It happens, for some reason, the firmware is screwed up. Try to reload it again. Use the procedure that load first the firmware on you PC then load it to the GPS, not using Webupadter. I remember, You may have to do it twice. Search this forum for the same issue and solution for it. It is also possible to just load the GPS SW 3.00 (it is the SIRF chip firmware). It is explained in the forum with a link to a non Garmin site where one can find this firmware.

Verify the soft version (menu, setup, system, menu, Soft version) It should display Soft ver 4.0 GPS SW version 3.00) If one of them is 0.00, it is screwed up and need to be reflashed. It happendend to me.

Automatic translation ? The easiest way to transform a simple cache into a first class puzzle cache !

And how do you convert your funny feet and inches to decimal feet or fractional inches to decimal inches for example

And the difference is ? American English excludes words that are more than two syllables long ? Isn't ? Anyway, considering that today, English is learned by reading Chinese English instructions manual, you should get this kind of proof readers as it is becoming the "new" standard !

You welcome ! Anyway, there are so many different sizes that in case you don't find the right one, just buy a larger one having the same chord diam. and make your own O-ring with a cutter or razor blade and cyanoacrylate Super glue ! For this type of low tech application, it does the job. O ring sellers market O ring splicing kit to do that. BTW, O ring is one of the most sophisticated while one of the simplest item used in technology. So vital that during WWII, the US govt refused to pay royalties to one of its inventor (it had been invented before but not well understood and did not catch up).

Well yeah, that too. Just don't use the wrong size. Standard O-rings are given as ID x Chord diam in mm that is 40x3 is 40mm inside diam 3mm chord diam, so OD is 46mm. True some old standards still exist in the US, based on archaic measures likes inch, fraction, decimal, gage etc... but dying fast with the companies using them.

I agree but yet quality caches still exist ! GPS are now a commodity and therefore anyone is a potential cacher not like the former ones who were technology savvy and curious about this new wonder, the GPS, spending time to learn and understand how it worked. It is natural that these were more inclined to design smart caches. The issue is not that much easy or poor quality caches, but how to pick the interesting ones. Difficulty levels are a way but not enough as an easy cache can be an interesting one in term of location for ex. On the other hand, easy if not crappy caches can stay for there are easy if not crappy cachers

These problems were solved in the seventies ! Try to wear out an HP35 scientific calculator buttons ! No way ! Seems it is a lost art. I had the same issue with a 60CX too, plus the rubber cover at the top that was crumbling ! And I don't use any kind of hand lotion. Normal wear they say ?????

You just have to hold the GPS up side down to compensate the different orientation ! So start to learn how to read it that way