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I miss when I first started caching. There weren't so many problems.

Actually one of my caching buddies bought the 62s and says that he screwed up. His old 60csx is a superior model he says or to quote him "not ready for primetime". I carry my Oregon everywhere but my old 60c (absolutely nothing wrong with it, I just wanted the bells and whistles) is in my pack ready to backup. I can always find them with the 60c. This is a heck of a deal, I would grab it!

Yep. The part about Facebook, I have a friend who travels a lot for business and he has his Twitter account linked to Facebook. He actually is nice enough to tell us when he is going out of town so we don't get blasted with his finds!

Lots of people like things to stay as they are. Next week or next month it will be something different that someone doesn't like. I say if we don't go forward, the game dies. And none of us want that.

I am loving it. Very easy on the eyes! And I am getting old!

Agreed. Just saying what I see although I suspect that the original meant Garmin owners to include auto/hunters/fisherman/cachers as you have stated. I was looking at it from a purely cacher point of view. Sorry for any mixup!

I think that this would be interesting as well. I would like to see how you figure your percentages as probably 90% of the cachers I know are Garmin owners. Or am I reading into what you are writing and are you saying Garmins customer base flipping the whole thing from a caching thing to just a "I own a Garmin" thing? Does that make any sense at all? It's early for me on a Sunday!

Congratulations! Glad that you are enjoying yourself!

This works quite well in our state parks system, but I enjoy a run with a friend of mine now and then and we are always trying to best ourselves. I like the more rough pursuit of a cache more than he does (5/5) when I can but they are few and far between for me. At least the REALLY adventurous ones. Personal opinion. I have found that since I have started staying home with my infant son that these have their place in the caching world. I completely understand the folks who make this statement so often now. It's a good argument. Agreed! I like this one! I don't like this one. Just because it has that many DNFs doesn't mean it's not there. I am completely against automation on this one. That's why we have reviewers that contact the CO. If it ain't broke... NO! There are hiders here in our area (one in particular that enjoys the hide rather than the hunt. And he does it AWESOMELY WELL! NO! If a CO wants to keep replacing it, so be it! No argument from me I liked what I liked and I didn't what I didn't!

I am considering buying a Magellan Tough Case for Christmas. I have an iPod touch so the GPS would be a big plus. I am not a Magellanite! I was wondering if anyone has tried out the unit with a Touch.

That is the worst idea I've heard on these forums. I agree. I wouldn't want that. In answer to the original question/statement. I know that my reviewer helps out by reviewing several states. They are volunteers as has already been said. It's gotta be rough getting the submissions they likely get everyday. How about sending a nice note to your reviewer asking why you haven't been reviewed yet? FK

No problem on mine. GC2H143 One find but a lot of looks at the page. It is one the way to my daughters school so I can check on it everyday. Question, anyone have 2 chirps? And what have been your experiences with them being read properly in close proximity? I have a PTB that happened to be in the car today and I could not read the one at my cache until I put the PTBChirp in my truck toolbox to block signal.

Do you mean to get it into the nano? I've never had that problem. Perhaps they make the logs longer there than here?

The tweezers on these are a cacher with big hands best friend on a nano.

The police here in Durham, NC once shut down I-40 for an entire afternoon while the bomb squad investigated a foam swimming-pool noodle.

Set the scene: 3:00 a.m. A small city in N.C. Local public Government building. Newly built. No sign. We signed the log and went back to the car. A police car passed while we were there and we waved and he waved. We got back to the car and as I reached for the key to start the car no less than four patrol cars come in with lights on. Officer 1: What are you doing? (Hand on gun.) Me: Ever heard of geocaching? (Explanation.) Officer 1: No. Officer 2: Yep. One of our officers plays that game. (Hand off gun.) Officer 1: Do you know where you are? Me: (Name of city) N.C. Officer 1: No exactly. This is city hall. Me: Sorry, we didn't know. There is no sign. Officer 2: Well it was just built. Officer 1: I think you boys are finished for the night. Officer 2: Yeah. Me: Well, I guess we can go over to Waffle House and eat and then head home. Officer 1: No I think you had better head on back to S.C. Me: Are you telling me to leave town? Officer 1: Exactly. We actually were told to leave town. He followed us to the city limits. We cached some more that night after that town but we were pretty nervous there for a bit.

$120.00? Are you putting out 6 Chirps?

After the big announcement I went over to REI to grab a few more: Sorry. We don't have the quantity you asked for in stock. We're all out of Garmin Chirp Geocache Transmitter's. You can backorder this item now and we'll get it to you as soon as it's available. Backorder it is then. So much for that huge pile they were going to be sitting on.

You may be overestimating the appeal and potential of the Chirp. While an interesting gadget, I think it's gonna be a pretty small piece of geocachig -- even if/when Groundspeak and Garmin can agree exactly where it fits. A "Chirp compatible GPS required" attribute is all that would be needed to settle most of the arguments, and the number of such caches might be so small that there wouldn't be much of a market for apps on other platforms. But ask me again if/when Chirps are < $5 retail, instead of around $20. Then I'd be looking at a lot of other uses, not just geocaching. Not in the way you might think from my avatar. I just hang out with a bunch of them during the work week. I work for Lockheed Martin, on contract to US Army Corps of Engineers to provide computer support. Standard disclaimer: Opinions expressed in my writing do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of my employers. Nah, I just like to see anything that warms my geekness! I am/was a CE in the Army.

Actually, you don't even need a dongle for an iPhone 3GS, 4,or the current generation of iPod Touch to pick up ANT devices. These models already have the ANT receiver built in. The Nike sport kit that includes the dongle is for iPod nano and a few other older iDevices that lack the built in receiver. And yet, there are over 250,000 apps that play in Apple's sandbox. Including some that use ANT... http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ ttp://itunes.apple.com/app/digifit/id314841648 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store WELL WRITE THAT APP THAT'S GOING TO MAKE YOU LOVED THE CACHING WORLD OVER! BTW are you an Engineer?

It's a Garmin product, so that's probably unlikely. However, if anyone is going to release an iphone app that supports it, I would expect the official Geocaching app to offer support in an update.Yeah right they haven't put out an update to make their app multicache friendly. (Android) that is. Glad you specified you were talking about Android, because the posts you quote were talking about Garmin and/or iPhone. Dunno about the iPhone app, but the latest Oregon update has multi-cache support, which I am very happy about. Since they are marketing this product exclusively for geocaching, it would seem they will eventually listen to their customers. If they now have multi-cache support for a product that customers were buying anyways, why wouldn't they figure out a way to make the Chirp readable on other platforms, turning it from a product that is relatively useless into one that people would buy? It's not like they don't own the company that developed ANT. They could start producing iPhone dongles, etc. There are already the USB ANT gizmos out there, it's probably just a matter of writing a program to do what you want & you'd have folks running around with their GPS and their netbooks loaded with the program & equipped with a USB ANT stick finding these things. Presto, changeo, it's no longer exclusive to people who have the right Garmin GPS! Until then, Garmin will be sitting on whatever's left of the Chirps they didn't already sell to REI, AND they're a lot more likely to get a skeptical look next time they come to the buyers for REI saying "Look at this great gadget we made! Your customers will LOVE them!" But with "iPhone dongles" you run into a whole nother kind of exclusivity. Apple is notorious for not letting anyone play in their sandbox. Darth Jobs controls with an iron fist. BUT I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK! I have my ideas for the chirp. I'll see if they work out or not.

I hate it when Mommy and Daddy fight. Not everything is a conspiracy. Of course I don't run through the forums to much. Where is this great rift? I can't see using anything other than Garmin products for geocaching. I have tried others but they just don't live up to my expectations like actually finding the cache.

Thanks for the reply BlueRajah! However, I don't see where there is a difference between using this product and being able to afford to hitch a ride to the space station. I mean, I see a difference as far as the tech, but honestly, how many of us regular folk are going to get to log the space station cache? If you don't want to hunt it, then don't, but why punish others who want to let their caching evolve? Punish may be to harsh a word, but it's what I got. Yet there sits the cache on the ISS and one that you need a sub to get to. Others that need scuba gear, a kayak, rappelling gear. I understand that Garmin has their logo on the piece of equipment. I just would not consider this a commercial violation of the guidelines, although I realize that Mr. I must since we are having this conversation.

I agree. I just "assumed" that it was already approved and dumped $30 on one. One way or another I WILL use it for a cache! Amen! I already have an idea for mine. I ordered one yesterday along with my tickets for the first commercial space flight to the space station and a spot on a private companies sub to get that one at the bottom of the ocean. Since I don't have the gear to do those on my own.

Can we get a ruling from a reviewer on here before we go out and spend our hard earned $$$ at the Garmin or REI site and NOT the Groundspeak Store?