ossumguywill
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Yep I've been gone for a long long time! I've been on vacation for the past three weeks and I was on the magellan support page and i came bak a few hours later and there it was, it took me a while to post so I might have done that later.
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All my (sort of) life I have dreamed of a rugged dedicated hiking gps with these features. If you haven't seen triton yet, go to megallangps.com
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I heard that you could connect a gps device to a radio via nmea serial and have it transmit your location, and you can pick up other's location. If this is true, how is it done?
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OK.... Everyone knows that you can relatively easily connect explorist 100,200 and 300 to the computer, right?
I have ordered the GUGS and USGM from the pc-mobile web site and was able to download POIs from my explorist 200 to my PC using EasyGPS, I am having trouble uploading POIs to my GPS though....there is probably something easy that I'm missing. Any suggestions?
Probably a problem with the resistor. The voltage going out of your computer may be too high or something.
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My Explorist 600 usually gets me within about 5 feet. Most people say they don't get this accuracy. It gets full signal in tree cover. It is very accurate.
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I have an explorist 600 that is EGNOS compatible. I heard that egnos was the forerunner of galileo. If they operate on the same frequency, would it be possible that magellan could release an update that would allow me to use gallileo and gps?
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I only have a 600 so no, I have not yet tested this.
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OK.... Everyone knows that you can relatively easily connect explorist 100,200 and 300 to the computer, right?
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Can you track with mapsend topo 3d? I really want to do this while surveying with my ex600.
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Huh?? My explorist is usually 7-20 feet. Back up any data you want to save (it will be deleted) and try a hard reset. I have heard stories exactly like this and usually a hard reset fixes it. When off, push and hold
goto+zoom out when powering on.
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DO NOT just buy a pda for outdoor treks. I would reccomend that you get a palmpilot and install gps software on it. Than you can use your gps on tough trips and hook it up to your palm for things like driving.
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Go to weather. Push menu, then go to calibrate. Enter barometric pressure and temperature. If that does not work then: while off, push goto/zoom out while powering up. Note that this will erase EVERYTHING (besides basemap) on internal memory.
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Look at the magellan crossover. It's coming out sometime.
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Yes, I must agree the specs on the Garmin 60CSx look close to what I'm wanting.
So what is the criticism of the 60CSx from the Magellan camp?
I hear people say they think the screen on a 60CSx is not very big. The explorist 600 w/battery adapter can run on aaa batteries, has a fairly big screen, and a 3-axis e-compass.
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The magellan explorist 500 is a wonderful unit. It has land and water mode for both kayaking and geocaching. It is really easy to use and very durable. Some people say it floats some don't. I think it depends on water salinity. The maps on my 600 are very good and serve me well. The customer service kinda stinks, but you can get through as long as you still have your warranty. The unit is also CRAZY small but still has a big screen. My unit is usually about 13-20 ft accuracy when moving.
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Do you have a link or URL to the gov't information? Perhaps it's a recent requirement whereas my reading happened back in 2002 I think.
Check THIS out. Mine was on an eTrex Legend, and this one was someone else on a yellow eTrex! He's got me beat 4 times over
Somewhere here.
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Wait.. I thought civilian units only tracked up to 950 mph due to sat restrictions or something.. is this not true?
I cannot answer whether or not it is true, but this was not a true track. It was an anomaly.
Yes but a government webpage I found said that civilian receivers would only give a reading of up to 950 mph so that gps couldn't be used on makeshift missiles. hmmmmmmm....... maybe they meant that the civ. gps sats would only give a true reading of 950 mph.
The speed displyed on the GPS is computeded from the time it takes to move frm one position to an other one, I can't see how then, the gov. can prevent the speed computation.
If the limitation is built in the GPS, keep in mind that ther are two kind of mph (even three kind of miles !),
the US mph and the nautical mph, so what is displayed in this peculiar case is below 950 knots.
I just double-checked. The government has a requirement that civilian gps receivers can only report up to 950 mph even if your acual speed is a billion mph. Maybe the version of firmware you guys had didn't have limits programmed in accidentaly.
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Plus or minus 30 feet is about as good as it gets. Your accuracy means nothing if it is not in sync with the cache owner. Your Garmin Legend is as capable as any other GPS unit for finding caches. Over time you develop better finding skills!!!! Sure you can pay for a newer unit that locks on Sats quicker and does not bounce as much .... but in the long run it has no better accuracy. ImpalaBob
Hmmmm?
I usually get ~10-13 reported foot accuracy with my explorist 600. The real accuracy is often less. Also, each gps unit has been programmed diferently and at different times. The coordinate "grid" in the memory of another unit might be slightly "drifted" from my unit or any unit. -
Maybe a universal location filetype? (never gonna happen
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Hello.
I live in Portugal but I recently bought a Magellan eXplorist 400 GPS device from North America. I wanted to update the firmware and made all the steps in your website. After the process got done I was turning on my GPS and when choosing the Language, which I wanted Portuguese. I selected that language and the device blocked so I had to remove the batery to turn it on again. So I choosed English which was the only one working. After that I was told to insert time and date, and I also did that. And at last, when It should be in the gps screen, with the map and so, just after load, I got a Error Message "Invalid Basemap Default Map Loading..." And I got nothing else. What should I do? It was working fine before the firmware update but now I have no way to restore it. Tried to Re-install the firmware but is the same story again and again.
Thank You
Send it back to magellan if a hard reset (when off press goto+out+pwr) and a basemap upload at http://www.rhamphorhinkx.ecohost.ru/maps/ doesn't fix it. Just double-click the .zip while your unit is connected.
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So when will it be operational? And does anyone know what the Garmin Sat. # is going to be when I look at my 60CSx screen?
I think 31.
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stupid mistake- don't put your gps on a slippery rock in the middle of a creek while looking in your pack. But it's okay. It drifted a little farther up the creek but I got it and it worked fine... thank goodness for waterproofing!
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Wait.. I thought civilian units only tracked up to 950 mph due to sat restrictions or something.. is this not true?
I cannot answer whether or not it is true, but this was not a true track. It was an anomaly.
Yes but a government webpage I found said that civilian receivers would only give a reading of up to 950 mph so that gps couldn't be used on makeshift missiles. hmmmmmmm....... maybe they meant that the civ. gps sats would only give a true reading of 950 mph.
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I just bought the Explorist 400 and I can't get it to work with the comp. I paid about $40 more for mine so that is a good price. I just cant get through the connection to the comp says there are no drivers! If anyone can help please let me know.
You do not need drivers. Magellan units are configured to work with some sort of universal usb thing. That is why you can so easily copy or put files onto an explorist.
I hope I won't be stuck with a 10 ft accuracy unit while others have 1/2 foot accuracy.
) I would also like complete mac compatability.
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Those Buttholes discontinued the explorist line
! now ill have to sell mine on ebay so i can buy a triton 2000 