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I donated my old GPS (Magellan300)to our local volunteer FD for 2 reasons, when calling in a life flight helicopter lat & lon make landing easier and safer. Also the forest service can get closer to a wild fire on the ground with the dozer with lat & lon as opposed to using SRT maps. GPS is a the way to go when time counts, as opposed to trying to give verbal directions in a rural area (which the dept. covers). We cover roughly 100 sq. miles so the GPS is a good thing to have, in my opinion. When I decide to upgrade from my 210 to something better, I'll donate it to another department. IF I could afford to do it, I'd buy a unit for each dept in the county! That's how strongly I feel about their usefulness in fire and rescue situations. I also feel that ALL emergency personnel , fire, sheriff, ambulance, should have one in their vehicle. For the few dollars that a GPS costs, if a life is saved it's a good investment. I'll hush now.....

52years young, HAH!

YES,YES,YES! I wish I had done it a year ago!!

I love my 210, BUT IMO the usb connector is a bit cheesey. I'm waiting to strip the threads. Other than that it's great, Magellan's support was good to me when it died under warranty, the sent me a new one in short order.

It's cheaper than my past stock car racing hobby, or the racing go-cart, or the gun hobby, or the computer hobby..........

You can get the manual here https://www.magellangps.com/assets/manuals/...rist_210_en.pdf Or I can e-mail it to you. I use a 210 for geocaching, works fine for me!

Automotive machinist specializing in after market aluminum racing cylinder heads. Hopefully a job change in the near future, after 27 yrs. in one place I'm burned out.

You can find m500/505/515s for $30 if you look. Cachemate is a tinkertoy compared to GeoNiche. Were we talking about caching on the cheap, or the most streamlined caching experience? Just for the sake of saying it, here's my total$$$, Palm M505 on E-bay, in the original box with all the original stuff was $35.00 + $15.00 UPS, GSAK is $20 ? Cachemate $8. Magellan 210, new last year, I don't remember. All the hours of enjoyment? PRICELESS!

Ok, I did all of the above, except the gas. What a SLICK DEAL! looks like the total cost, Palm and all was $108 I wish I'd gone the premium membership long ago... As for the PC, no sweat. 3 laptops, 2 desktops lying around the house.

Hmmmm, I got that impression from other posts. Thanks guys

My E-bay Palm M505 is on the way. What are the "must have" progs? GSAK is on the Desktop and laptop. Seems like there are several choices, I'm looking for opinions........ Thanks!

I had a problem with my new Magellan210, Called them on the 9th and got a RMA, shipped on the 10th, they got it on the 12th. I got it back on 21st. I was pretty happy with the service other than the India thing you mention, seems all tech support is ouy of the US. Before I sent my unit I had put my initials in the battery compartment and noted the serial no. when it came back, no initials and a different serial. No mention of replacement on the packing slip, I don't feel that was right to do without letting me know. BUT so far it works!

It does have a company name on it although I did not write it down or take a pic, guess I was having a senior moment!

It's on the back side of the statue of Christ a bit to the right. I did have the lat/lon on my unit BUT I bought a new one and gave the old one to the to our local rural FD.

EasyGPS claims to work on Magellan units. Free and pretty simple to operate. I just purchased a 210 last weekend and I use Magellans Geocaching software on 2 of my XP systems without a hitch. EasyGPS does work with a 210, so does GSAK ......

While prowling around Eureka Spring AR at the ststue of Christ, I found what I think is a benchmark. It's a 2"+/- metal disk with GPS control and a company name stamped on it, I didn't write the Co. name down, no other numbers are there. I looked in that Zip code for the Lat/Lon and got nothing (N36 40903 W093 72493). Did I actually find something? Please bear in mind I'm a rookie at this.