hentilagget
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Thanks for all the very helpful suggestions, everyone. Now to sit down and do my homework !
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Don't forget to let your gps have some time to figure out where it is once you've arrived at your destination. Taking it a long distance will require it to re-orient itself.
Turn it on, and let it sit for a while. Don't be impatient.
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Thanks for that information. When you say "a while", are we looking at 5 minutes, or much longer ?
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OK I see now, the HU numbers are the OS grid letter. Your best bet is to change your GPS to use the WGS84 datum, and change the co-ordinate format to "DD MM.MMM" - I think that's how it's presented on the Etrex. Then if you're manually inputing co-ords use the co-ords in the format "N 59° 59.805 W 001° 13.566" at the top of the page (all caches have the co-ords in this format).
You only need to do this if you're inputting the co-ords manually, If you're downloading the cache details straight into the Etrex from the computer then you don't need to worry about this.
Yes, we are inputting the co-ordinates manually, using the HU numbers, whereas the Spanish caches have co-ords preceded by UTM. However, they all have the N / W format, so we shall follow your suggestion and find out how to input those co-ords into the Etrex. (We've only ever used the OS letters, and in the UK.) Better try it out a few times here first, to make sure we can do it ! Thanks for your help.
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We are new Geocachers, and are about to go on holiday to Andalucia, in Spain. We've been using an Etrex Garmin H, with the HU numbers, to cache in Scotland, but the Spanish sites have a different system. How easy is it to convert to their co-ordinates ?
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As a newcomer to geocaching, I'm just finding my way round. I'm ok with logging "Found It", but the other day I had to log a "Needs Maintenance", and it didn't seem to register as a find. Do I need to then log it again as a "Found It " ?
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Aha, that looks very useful - thanks a lot.
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Go ahead and use it. That list (which is now non-functional) has no effect, it never did. It is to be removed when they get around to it.
Well, that was easily sorted ! Hope the rest of the journey is as smooth - thank you .
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Hi - I am a total newbie, having only looked for and found one cache so far. We used my husband's GPS, but having just got a smartphone, I'd like to be able to use that too. So I went to my account, where I was offered the "Add a Device" option. I have a Samsung Galaxy Fame (GTS6810P), for Android, and among dozens of Galaxy phones, it wasn't there. There seems to be no option to add it, so does that mean I can't use it for geocaching ?
Does "Needs Maintenance" also register as "Found It".
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Thanks everyone. The link from Pup Patrol was especially helpful.