Dale_Lynn
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Keep in mind.... If you select a location (parking space) and then finding it on a map is pretty much the inverse of what you will actually be doing in real life.....
A better "get familiar" situation would be to go to a open location (school grounds - city park) and select a item (water faucet-statue-manhole cover) as a reference point, enter the coordinates into GPS and then move away from selected point...... Maybe a couple of hundred feet... Wait a bit and then start back towards "marker" only using GPS as directions to get there (no visuals on this) .... Observe how GPS REACTS, this is actually what you will be working with in the real world....
Remember the accuracy of the find is only as good ad the coordinates the hider supplies.... This will put you with in 0 to 50 feet (in most cases) of actual location of cache...
Dale
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Did you install the drivers from CD in package?
Also try a different USB port.... For some reason GPS units don't seem to like secondary USB ports ....
Dale
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Dont think its a argument on allowing more virtual caches or not....
Its a issue of credibility of the "finder"....
Dale
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I have nothing to say about GPS CRAZY, but wanted to mention that in these days of Internet business, only thing one needs is space for computer terminal.... No brick and mortar store front, no hulking warehouse, no forklifts, no shipping dept.... EVERYTHING can be out sourced or drop shipped...
BUT I would rely on any negative or positive consumer reports....
Dale
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Let me get this straight.... You want to remove a connector and replace it with a connector just so you can have a removable connector on other end of connector...
Dale
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Read accompanying manuals, both paper and on CD....
Dale
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I guess from what I've read and it seems right, when I hook the GPSr to the computer and open the magup.exe it will automatically recognize it and ask to start update, but I'm not getting anything.
Can computer communicate with GPS with a program like EasGPS... IT may be the the upgrade software can not "find" GPS unit because it does not know what "COM" port the GPS is using....
Dale
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Definitely consider the ones that have PC interface.... Dont know about gift receivers computer literacy, but it gets really old entering coordinates manually, if you dont have PC interface...
Dale
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Hello all, I am new to this sport and have been using my Magellan GPS315 that I have had for some time now. (has the original software and I can't upload the new version for some reason) I am guessing that I am at a disadvantage because my unit does not have maps on it and does not give me direct directions on how to get to
the cache. What I have found out is that I find it awesome to just follow that little arrow and distance indicator as I drive around not knowing where it will lead me, and when I get there it is always great to see that the location has some distinct feature that led the cache to be placed there. Thanks for this great pass time!!!!!I do two things.... I print map from cache page, this gets me within easy striking distance of cache then I just follow the arrow.... Have yet to NEED to use maps on GPS unit...
There are also other solution as using GOOGLE mapping, put in coordinates and it should take you to correct spot, in theory it could put you close enough that you do not even need GPS unit...
Dale
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Have any of you actually purchased these cables and used them? I was interested in the USB connector USGMGS on the site PC Mobile . All I would need it for is to load POIs right from my PC cause I'm darn tired of entering them one at a time and I can't find an explorist 400 that is in my price range yet.
Look for a Explorist 210, it has data port...
Dale
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Why is it everybody assumes a person is a "premium member" just because "they" are....
Anyway....
Go to a page in geocache site and select (check) several caches you are interested in, then go to bottom of page and select download and bring file down into a folder in to your computer....
If you have not already done so load any "drivers" into PC from CD that came with your GPS unit. Connect GPS to Computer through USB cable ( hopefully you have late model GPS with USB).
Load EasyGPS and go to "preferences" and select your GPS brand and connection preferences...
Next go to "GPS" drop down EasyGPS and test GPS connection....
IF all is good, load the .loc or .gpx file you downloaded from geocache site into EasyGPS... Next go to "GPS" (in tool bar) and try sending file to GPS ...
It will probable go to GPS unit IF you were able to establish communication with GPS unit in earlier step...
Its really about that simple once you have done it a few times it becomes natural...
Dale
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Just by going to several pages in geocache.com and selecting caches of interest (click down load box) then going to bottom off page and do download , this lets you download up to 20 caches per page...
IF you select caches on multiple pages it will create multiple files for caches for each single page so you will have multiple files...
You can use file merge utilities to bring all the small files into one big file....
Some thing I do is use EasyGPS to load each file (containing multiple caches) into my GPS, the GPS actually appends new cache information with the already existing one... I now can download the single large file in GPS to EasyGPS and edit what ever I want....
Its a little cumbersome as a work around but it does work...
Pocket queries may be great, but you have to be premium member ($$$) and for me I don't do enough caching to justify the additional cost...
Dale
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That's not what I said at all. You said:So now we have to fill a quota of finds to have a opinion....They lost me as soon as VIRTUAL caching was changed to WAY MARKING....Since you have found no virtual caches, it seems that you were never into it in any case. If they were so important, it seems as if you would have found at least one. Are you boycotting virtual caches too?
Sure you can have an opinion. Before you boycott something, you might want to actually look at it. For example, I would not eat sushi until a couple of years ago. I finally decided to try it. You know what -- it is really good! At a sushi restaurant last Saturday the chef asked us to try something and would not tell us what it was. I did not hesitate in the least... and it was delicious! I figure if I don't at least try it I won't know what I'm missing. The same works here. The only person who loses with your boycott is you.
Sushi restaurants are a Waymarking category by the way.
I love Waymarking!LET me clarify.... I am not interested in Waymarking or the WAY MARKING web site since VIRTUAL caches were divorced from GEOCACHE.COM......
Bring back VIRTUALS to GEOCACHE.com
Dale
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They lost me as soon as VIRTUAL caching was changed to WAY MARKING....
WAY MARKING just seems to designate a single point along a long series of locations to get to the end.....
The name sort if kills the concept of a single VIRTUAL cache....
I personally am boycotting WAY MARKING...
IT really was probably the LOCATION LESS cache that really killed VIRTUALS.... After all VIRTUALS never moved.... LOCATIONLESS cache were never where I was looking....
Dale
Some of your post is rather confusing, but one thing I notice is that you have found no virtual caches. You also found no caches at all between October 2003 and July 2006, and then you only found three in two days. No caches found since then. As a rather sporadic geocacher, the Waymarking site would not be affected by your "boycott" anyway. To relate this to the topic in the original post, you are not losing and sense of adventure since you don't really chose to participate in it (no virtual caches found, though you have submitted one virtual).
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So now we have to fill a quota of finds to have a opinion....
Some people have other things going on lives so caching some times gets put off.....
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a3-ef89a8d17ccb
Respectfully
Dale
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They lost me as soon as VIRTUAL caching was changed to WAY MARKING....
WAY MARKING just seems to designate a single point along a long series of locations to get to the end.....
The name sort if kills the concept of a single VIRTUAL cache....
I personally am boycotting WAY MARKING...
IT really was probably the LOCATION LESS cache that really killed VIRTUALS.... After all VIRTUALS never moved.... LOCATIONLESS cache were never where I was looking....
Dale
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I had a similar problem with an Explorist 400 I used to have. The problem for me was in the com port settings. I had to go into Start, Settings, Control Panel, phone and modem settings, modems tab, then click on the Explorist unit and change the com port to something below 10. I think I changed mine to something between 1-4.
You probably have installed some other hardware that has changed your ports on you (thanks to Microsoft) and your explorist got the boot.
That is possible for GPS device with SERIAL CABLE, but the 210 is a USB device and does not have COM PORT number associated with it....
Dale
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First READ instruction manual.....
As and experiment, find a know location, some thing simple like statue in park or water fountain or anything easily recognized... At that location waymark coordinate of object in GPS unit after letting unit "settle down" and stabilize coordinates.... Now just walk away..... Go short or long distance does not matter but long is better (several blocks would be great), now let GPS guide you back to object....
Lesson here is to teach you how GPS unit reacts as you navigate back to know object.... The main thing is to follow pointer in desired direction and pay attention to distance... Do this several times from different directions...
I'll bet it will bring you to within 15 feet or less of "target object" every time....
On a hunt, if you are within 15 feet of cache time to put GPS aside and go to visual (two eyeballs) mode....
Dale
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I always key in location of my car before I leave parking area on long route so I can find my way out..... Always carry spare batteries.... Map?..Compass? have yet to "need" them on any geocaches....
Dale
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I usually verify any caches I am going to search for a day or so before the actual hunt....
After spending some hours thrashing around in a bog, I came home to find the cache archived... Never again will hunt with out previous verification...
Dale
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Are you really connected to COM 1, is hardware connector on PC really COM 1 ...
In device manager is serial parameters for COM 1 the same as in GPS, as to Baudrate, stop bits, parity, etc?
And why did you go form XP back to 98???
Dale
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Its actually your BROWSER that is problem.... IT does not know how to handle a .GPX file so it defaults it to a .ASPX file.... Fix is in browser... Results should either be a .GPX or .LOC file if you do fix right.
Sorry I can't give more direct answer, I fixed mine several years ago and don't remember exact procedure.... IT has to do with browsers internal file association options....
Will search for fix, IF I can find it I will post it...
Dale
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Early Magellan units uses a 4-40 screw (like come on sub "D" computer connectors)... Do not know if 600 uses that size or not... Since more stuff is made in China and else where, would not surprize me IF it was metric though.
Try some hobby shops that have RC cars and planes to see if you can find something...
Dale
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What good is it if the dadgum thing doesn't ALWAYS show your correct heading. I can be pointed dead East and it will show me NE or SE, maybe a tad closer to East but still if it can't show you at all times the direction you are heading how would one find their way out of the jungle........A few degrees off can certainly matter.
76csx
What do you use to determine "dead east"?
Dale
the cache. What I have found out is that I find it awesome to just follow that little arrow and distance indicator as I drive around not knowing where it will lead me, and when I get there it is always great to see that the location has some distinct feature that led the cache to be placed there. Thanks for this great pass time!!!!!
I love Waymarking!
Cool new toy need accessories
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All these goodies probably will not actually help you find things... GSP should be used, enter coordinates and go out and search.... The Goodies are just fluff to satisfy your need to have more exotic toy.... Only thing that is close to a must have is USB cable ( if GPS did not come with one) to download coordinates from PC to GPS...
Dale