Ellteejak
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Okay what I am seeing is everyone says their GPS works great outside, under leaves, next to rock/cliff faces.
Then I get comments like NO IT DOESNT, your GPS sucks in difficult cover situations.
Has anyone ran some tests at all to independantly verify these claims, or vilify the people who are commenting negatively? Oh, and I am hoping that no one comes back and says "it depends on what you want" because that is NOT clear advise.
I have read the reviews online in Consumer Reports, and Consumer Research, and Outside Magazine. Everyone seems to be vague. Is their any leadership on this forum, with someone saying they will at least seriously BET A SIXPACK that they will get to a waypoint/ geocache with their GPS faster than the competitors GPS owner?
Starting from GPS being turned off?? and running under heavy cover of trees, and rock faces nearby (climbing a mountain/hill). Sort of a GPS FACE OFF?
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I think this went off track. I was saying Low cost. I think someone started suggesting units over $200. How about units under $100?
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So what would be the best basic beginner low cost handheld GPS? The Etrex Yellow? Something else? Here is what I would think I would be looking for, in parameters.
1) Waterproof
2) Can upload/ download waypoints via a cable connection to my computer. (100 waypoints is fine)
3) Is minimally effected by leafcover, or rock reflections. I want it to be somewhat insensitive to reflected radio waves from other sources besides the satellites.
4) Easy to read/see display (lots of old eyes cant see the micro text in some GPS), with minimal setup required.
5) Battery life that can handle 8 hours after turned on.
6) Accurate to the acceptable range area (whatever is common). I think from reading some parameter/statistics/specifications that 10 to 20 feet is close as it gets.
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Okay I tried this product. Nice chami clothes included, and two different abrassive solutions. BUT the scratches are still too deep. Willl try the nail polish and needle, and cover method next.
I just ordered this product. It was reviewed by many obsessive compulsive IPOD owners, and improved by the company.
http://www.radtech.us/Products/IceCreme.aspx
try searching "scratch repair" on ebay...there are lots of products available.
jamie
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I have heard of using a fiber glass buffing wheel in acrylic. But that still requires that I get a setup with a clamped drill or something.
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If I cover up the glare coating on my screen with a plastic screen protector, wouldn't the glare coating not even matter? I would hope my plastic film screen protector has some kind of anti-glare in it.
*** Thanks to all who mentioned just using some auto polish, or brass polish material. Most likely you are correct that these would likely be cheaper and tend to buff out the scratches. It is just that when you through some EXPERIMENT chemical on your clear acrylic screen $100 device you tend to get nervous. Even the Meguirs polishes are going to cost $10 for a bottle, but then I would have a bottle to use on my car too. Next time I might try that.
Watch how much you buff with some of the plastic scratch removers.
I took the coating off the area around a scratch on my 76CS and made it worse. (Thsi was sort of an anti-glare coating.) So the scratch is gone and there is an even bigger area that now reflects and is hard to se through...
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I just ordered this product. It was reviewed by many obsessive compulsive IPOD owners, and improved by the company.
http://www.radtech.us/Products/IceCreme.aspx
try searching "scratch repair" on ebay...there are lots of products available.
jamie
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I emailed Garmen about getting my screen on my old style Etrex Legend repaired. It has a deep scratch on it, but otherwise is fuly functional with no problems. The said the flat rate is $95 for the repair. I emailed them back and said I can get a new Etrex Legend (old style) for about $100 new, or used (but fully functional) from ebay.
They said that is their cost.
Does anyone else have any other alternatives? I tried to find a PDA repair company or an IPOD repair company that would do the work, but no luck in finding one yet.
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where? what post? I cant find the discussion
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So back to some custom pocket queries, I guess. Does anyone have a few that can be suggested to create for special ATTRIBUTES?
Like:
1) NIGHT CACHE query for my state.
2) SNOW SAFE query for caches that can be found in deep snow
3) BICYCLE query for caches that can be got to via bicycle, for dash and cache.
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GSAK has the saved search parameters. I set those up to search all text for the cache for the words NIGHT, and then I look to see if the cache is actually a NIGHT cache. Slow but works most times.
Would be cool if the ATTRIBUTES just put in a chunk of TEXT into each zipped pocket query cache that gave a unique name for each attribute, maybe in all capitol letters. That way we could use GSAK offline to search for a specific chunk of text with the correct uppercase only format.
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Can one download the ATTRIBUTES of the cache via a pocket query yet? I know I can filter for them.
I wanted to look at the ATTRIBUTES offline in my GSAK application, but not sure if I can yet.
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1700 = five years X 1 per day. Wow such a busy life.
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hours and typical months. Cound not be there in January.
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and lyme disease too.
and yellow jacket wasp nests.
and hunters
and west nyle virus
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best to leave the small physical stature folks home, as thier bodies can not handle this. Wait for the first frost.
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I vote Paragon in Pennsylvania!! an offroad park!!
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Okay, the dangerous caves all have locking gates in front of them to prevent suicide (via darwin award selection).
Maybe this is tentative, okay, with some rules.
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That brings up a good point. Does a listing of LOCATIONLESS caches in fact "own" the listing?
1) What if I went to every site listed, and logged my own visit, then transposed those numbers to the Waymarking site?
2) What if I asked each person who visited, to give me permission to list their visit on a Waymarking list?
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There are many of these in many areas of the country. While I lived in Kentucky I found quite a few.
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I would like to vote a big NO on this one. The safety issue with caves is too great. Plus the possibility of distruction, and vandelism.
Exploring out in the open is one thing, but taking the risk of exploring underground put s a whole lot of danger into the equation.
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Vote no on this one. Too portable, and seasonal.
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Sort of a PLAY WITH PURPOSE kind of proposal. Is this what can be done with an Earthcache maybe? (Not real familier with what earth caches are yet).
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I wonder if we can try to get some kind of affiliation going between Geocaching groups and Citizen Science groups.
Look at this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/DESTINATION...h.ap/index.html
Think about how we could set up caches, and affiliate with environment monitoring scientists to study the: Bird species, tree species, etc. of an area.
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So what is your favorite filters that you use to look for caches in your area, before you go out and start searching? (typically using GSAK)
I am using a filter to just look at regular "generic" caches: with no micros (need to rake the forest to find them); no mysteries (need google in your pocket, and a calculator, and a PhD to get them done); and no multis (need to find three caches to find one? WHY? give another cache placer a chance to hide stuff).
These "generic" caches make it fun to see the variety of caches people can put out, and they encourage others to pursue more.
Got any other filters??
Repeatable Rf Reception Tests?
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I have the old Etrex Legend. This discussion mentions my problem. Guess it is time to go to the Legend C.
http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=125000