Cymbaline
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Get what you feel comfortable with. Or what you feel you need/want. Or can afford. Barometer/Altimeter? Um. No. I have a watch (casio) that will do that, but I don't use it for geocaching normally.
For geocaching, I *do* own a Rino 110, but I also carry a $20 Silva compass. I occasionally wear the casio, but only to make fun of it. Doesn't really matter IMHO when you're caching.
Bottom line: don't spend outside your means, but get what you are looking for. For basic geocaching all you really need is A) GPS unit that locks on to more than 3 sat's and
a compass. And by "basic" I mean "find at least 75% of the caches in your area", not counting terrain. Cost: $50-200, including compass. Did I mention BUY A COMPASS? Yeah. Spend $10-20 and be glad you did. -
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Originally posted by Alphawolf:quote:
To have the capabilities of a higher-end standalone FRS unit, the Rino would be well into the $250-450 range.I respectfully disagree. Compare the 110 to the Garmin 72. The 72 meets or exceeds almost every spec. and I sell it for $159.00. That makes the radio part of the equation worth about $10. or so, and I stand on my opinion that $10.00 is about all it's worth. I can buy better quality radios for $20, almost anywhere.
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Dunno what he was looking for for $170, butI wasn't "looking" for anything.....I was just "calling 'em as I see 'em" As I have mentioned before, I love the concept of the RINO.I am confident it will mature to the point where I might pay the money a buy a pair instead of borrowing them from the store
"Never take a sunset for granted. Stop what you are doing and enjoy it. You never know when it may be your last"
Alpha, thanks for responding, and I apologize for not getting back here sooner to respond. BTW, I ref'd your topic on this thread.
However, you're saying you could buy a FRS for $10 in THIS thread, and/or you thought that radio on the Rino was only worth $10-20. Last I checked, you can't buy a Walkabout for that amount, but it SEEMED to be that is what you were comparing it to. If it wasn't, where are these $20 better-radios you're talking about? Share the wealth, as it were!
If you weren't, my bad, my mistake. There's FRS "units", and then there's FRS *units*! To which were you making your comparison?
Thanks again, hopefully I've not ruffled too many feathers.
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Originally posted by Mr. Rose:if you were planning on getting a cable, you might as well of gotten the 120
150(rino 110, 1 mb) + 40(cable,) = 190
220(rino 120, cable, basemap, exit info, 8 mb)
so for about 30 more bucks assuming you buy the cable seperate of 110, you get basemap, exit info and 8 more mb's.
Do you agree?
If I had it to do over again.. yes, I would have gotten the 120. At the time, I didn't figure the "overhead" into the equation. Bet your bottom dollar the next unit I buy will be a 120, though.
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Originally posted by niskibum:I just recieve my cable from Pc-mobile to connect my rino to my ipaq. Unfortunatly the plug for the rino is not the right size. The plug on the cable is the Garmin R type, but it is too large for the hole on the rino. I have contacted Pc-mobile about this and will post the results here. You may want to wait before buying any cables until you are sure it is the right one.
If anyone has more info I would appreciate the help.
I'm assuming you have a Rino 110, since the cable comes with the 120.
The cable for the Rino(s) are unique. Why? Beats me, but it is. No other mfrgrd cable will work, but supposing you could make one.
I searched around for a few days and found out that NOBODY (retail/online) actually *had* inventory of either of the two Rino cables (PC only, PC+cig lighter). So, I called Garmin direct and ordered mine two days before Xmas (ordered PC datacable only). Cost me something like $38 + $6 shipping. Got it today, about to hook it up.
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Originally posted by Mr. Rose:...what what Alpha is saying is just his experience with the RINOs' and how Garmin in HIS opinion could have made the radios better or more like other more exspensive FRS radios. Dont take it personal because someone doesn't like the RINO as much as you do. You and me both love the RINO even if the radio was not there.
I'm not taking it personal by any means. I'm looking at it in a different perspective.
To have the capabilities of a higher-end standalone FRS unit, the Rino would be well into the $250-450 range. For it's *price*, however, it's danged near a Garmin V AND an "adequate" FRS receiver - and THAT is the point I think Mr. Alphawolf is overlooking. That's all, nothing more, nothing less. Dunno what he was looking for for $170, but....
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And about the radio off feature. I know it does not take time to turn it off EVERY TIME, but as easily as it is to do that, its just as easy to make a simple option to allow the radio to remain turned off, if the unit is turned off.I agree with you there. I'd like to see a "restore last status on/off" feature for both GPS and the radio, myself. But for $170? I can punch a few buttons for now. Personally, I tend to turn the GPS off more than the radio.
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Uh. Ok. This is my 2nd GPS unit (first was not used for geocaching).
As far as I'm concerned, this unit passes every test I've thrown at it. Yeah, having the option of "turn on this or that" would be nice, but it only takes about 5 seconds to correct that. Yes, it would be nice if the radio worked better. Big deal. It's FRS. If you wanna talk (AND drain the battery), just get a nextel to partner with it, no worries.
I'd like to see (and this can't/won't happen soon) improvements in GPS geometry. I bought this unit for GPS - the radio is an added bonus, and I've I have to leave whomever for a radius of a mile or better, that means we're BOTH bushwacking, or something is terribly wrong. Even with GMRS radio, same thing.
Alphawolf, I'm sorry if the radio doesn't sound good to you or has a lack of distance. Buy a nextel or cellphone or other long-distance radio to COMPANION the unit if you're so extant on radio distance. You, of all people, should know better.
Folx, This is a GPS unit WITH FRS capabilities - and with GMRS capabilities in the states, it's NOT a radio with "some" GPS capabilities.
I bought my unit for GPS reasons only, not to talk on the radio.
Do I use the FRS? Sure. Does it work? Yeah, within reason (especially line-of-sight; FRS doesn't deal well with that). Do I have alternative means of communication if need be? Yep, cell phone and nextel.
But is it a unit that can find locations? Bet your arse.
THAT'S what I'm talking about. This is a GPS forum, right? Not a short-wave radio forum. Or a usability forum. We're talking a GPS unit here, folx, not a Porche. And in GPS way, I've seen NO compalints about it's performance from ANYBODY.
Grr... Off soapbox now. Sorry, this was a vent a long time coming.
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Originally posted by Team 5-oh!:There sure is a bunch of info on the web about it.
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Originally posted by Cymbaline:Is it just me, or wouldn't this person already have knowledge of where to get his gear?
Worldwide? Uh.. I don't think so.
Not to mention that there's no such thing as "VATF", be it "-1" or otherwise.
Further responses will not be forthcoming, I hope. Try again in the year 2100.
Polly want a cracker?
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Originally posted by Mr. Rose:I will be posting a long review soon, just need more testing on my RINO 120. I feel lucky: They said that in later production units the click stick will be longer, and I am happy to say I got one of those. My friends is shorter then mine and I feel bad for him. Also, I have used the radio many times with many other brands. It works great. The mic sensitivity option seemed to make it even better! the speaker on the Rino can go very loud and is actually clear. The Rino has the same range as my other FRS radios and sounds just as good. In some radios the RINO sounds a little unclear but not due to fuzz, just a little off but is still understandable. I will provide furthur testing soon.
Mr. Rose:
My "click-stick" seems to be slightly longer than what one would find in an IBM laptop. Do I have the longer or the shorter one? If I have the "shorter" one, I wouldn't want the
longer" one. I've finally learned how to to move it "north/south" without going "east/west" or selecting a menu.
In my case, making it longer is gonna be a pain in the arse and/or require an increase in my dexterity.
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Is it just me, or wouldn't this person already have knowledge of where to get his gear?
Worldwide? Uh.. I don't think so.
Not to mention that there's no such thing as "VATF", be it "-1" or otherwise.
Further responses will not be forthcoming, I hope. Try again in the year 2100.
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Decided to see what my unit could withstand shock-wise. I threw it again today on purpose - four times. Kinda wondered as to what would happen. Results excellent. Used known location to test bearings as well as my hand-held compass. I was on relatively level ground, so YMMV.
Tosses:
1. Low lateral toss about 6-8 feet. Easy toss. Unit stayed on.
2. Picked up, let unit get its bearings. Yup, still working sound. Then I tossed in a rough 35 degree-arc 15-18 feet away.
3. Unit out cold. Turned it on. It gathered it's senses, took a minute. Yep, working fine. Ok.. on to last toss.
4. Quick-side-threw (mimicking a fall) unit about 25-30 feet. Unit glances off tree.
Final: Unit out cold. Turn it on, hey it works! Turn to satillite page, it's trying to hook up with 5 sat's. Wait another 90-120 seconds, it's got 21 ft accuracy w/o WAAS. Enter destination waypoint, wait 30 seconds, it's pointing right at it - about 75 feet away. My eyes say it has approximately the right distance, and my hand-held compass says it has the right bearing.
Works for me. Don't try this on purpose like I did, unless you're an idiot, like me.
Bottom line: Uh.. how does one break this thing? Pretty well bulletproof, as best I can tell. I'm not dropping it off a cliff, though.
Did I mention I found a couple of caches today AFTER this test?
flir~girl, thanks for your post. Wish I would have read it before I tried this. I don't think you have to worry about anything, unless your name is Wyle E. Coyote.
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Send some of the wealth this way, eh? "under $500?" Cripes, I could buy a crapload of tools and/or car parts for that kind of cash. At least I can justify that type of purchase.
Can't justify 5 benjamins for a GPS though. Neat toy, nonetheless. Bet it's limited in usage too based on the PR page. Not worth it. Doesn't have a quad-helix antenna, to boot. What sort of antenna IS that?
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Finally got fed up with local stores and just ordered the cable straight from garmin.
If I had it to do over again, I know think I would have gone ahead and spent the $250 on the Rino 120 instead of the 110.
Rino @ $170, datacable $38 + $6 shipping from garmin = $214. Spending the extra $36 would have gotten me 8MB RAM, instead of just 1MB.
So if you're thinking about either of these units, put that into consideration - the datacable comes with the 120, does not with the 110. Food for thought.
I've found that ignoring the direction arrow and paying closer attention to the Lat/Long coords on the navigation screen has been more successful when closing in proximity to a location. Standing still a minute narrows it down even more.
Battery life: Went on a 6-hour cache/explore-the-park expidition this past saturday, battery started at 3 bars but moved to 2 bars about 30 minutes into it. Lasted all through that hunt with a good amount of radio use and WAAS being turned on and off at times. Batteries finally died while driving to another cache in a different park. Works for me. Got a good deal on Duracell's, so that's what I'm using right now.
I haven't been able to find fault with this unit yet. Yeah, I threw it about 10 feet once when I misstepped on a hill and the shock of landing killed the unit, but it powered right back on and worked as if nothing happened.
A note about the firmware - as st_richardson said, backup your stuff first. A friend of a friend had his garmin (not sure what model) had the update fail, restarted the update, and it fried the unit. Had to send it in for fix/replacement. Of course, lost all waypoint info to boot.
-Cymbaline
Very Pleased Rino user
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Markwell me if you want, but I don't have a lot of time. I'm leaving in less than 72 hours.
I'm going to be in SF within the next two weeks, and I'd like to place a TB there. This is a job trip, and my time is gonna be REALLY tight. I'm going to be staying in the Palace or somewhere in the general vicinity.
I'll have maybe (if any) about 40 minutes of daylight in the evenings to visit a cache that can hold a gallon-sized ziploc of 4x5" stuffed doll and 5"x8" attached logbook worth of TB.
I've found a couple of possible spots, but I'm not a native. If I have to take a cab to a more remote spot (read: I won't have time/funds to go to San Jose for a bug) "outside" of the city, fine. I'm game. I realize that most of SF's sites are micro's, but I'd really like to leave this bug.
Any help would be appreciated. This is a brand-new bug, I picked it up and want to get it the heck out of Atlanta if I can, give it a good start. If I can't, it's going to get a postcard and head back to Atlanta.
Thanks in advanced for assistance - and responses to johanabrahms@hotmail.com will be recieved faster than I can view this topic. Thanks again.
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This is kinda loaded question, as I have a few different hobbies requiring different equipment, and therefore have different rigs for them.
I'll keep it simple:
What cachers ALWAYS carry with them, regardless of where/when. I'm not looking for seasonal clothes or the like - just the necessities. Do you carry a pack? If so, whats in it? lappack? Same thing. What is on your person when you go!
I'm asking this because I'm starting to think that I *might* want to carry a backpack, but... Most of my locations are within 2 hours of me, and will take 2-6 hours to do. So think of this as a *generic* this-is-what-I-carry.
To start:
For geocaching, I currently carry the following:
- 1.5/1.75L Desert cammo Camelback water system.
- Rino 110
- Hand-held compass
- Leatherman Wave in pouch (or original, depends on what I grab first)
- Cell phone
- Trinkets that I can stash about my person.
- Printouts of where I'm trying to go - geocaching.com front page, maybe a mapquest printout of where to park.
That's it.
What do you carry, and what should I?
The reason why I say that it's a "loaded question" is to compare my rapelling/climbing/extreme outload, which is army surplus-based with a load of Black Mountain/REI/BQ stuff thrown in, but works great, but is way overkill for geocaching, typing in as I dump it out:
- Full ALICE rack with full-sized pack and metal rack.
- Canteen and/or 1.5/1.75 Camelback, depends on where I'm going for how long
- 3 black mountain climbing/rapelling harnesses
- 2 "tie-off" ropes (100' cord, the other some 50' polyrope i got from hope depot that works well)
- 4 screw locking biners
- 4 weight-bearing twist-locking biners
- Multitude (about 35?) of other weight-bearing biners
- Full-sized Brigade Quartermaster First Aid Kit (it's pretty complete, don't have the one with the forceps and the like. I'm not a doc)
- "Rambo"-like knife, in sheath
- Leatherman original, in sheath
- 3 Ponchos
- 2 Garbage bags
- 2 total MREs, no bags/cardboard
- Small fist of TP
- About a dozen quart-sized ziplocks
- Rope bag (Black Mountain), strapped to ALICE with army straps, containing 200' Black Mountain climbing rope
- 150' Black Mountain Static rope
- 4 figure-8s (2 of which are rescue-8s.) and one stopper. No, I don't have gr..."stoppers" yet. Can't type their name, either.
- 4 Power Bars
- 2 cells emergency water
- 8 AA batteries
- 1 2 AA flashlight
- 50' ripcord
- 1 small roll ductape.
I have a few other rigs as well for different stuff, but I'm REALLY wondering what a geocacher carries on a DAILY basis to caches. Think 2-8 hours total.
Thanks for your input.
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Ok, got one for the rest of you. Anybody bought the specialized cable that Garmin requires? If so, how much, and from where, and does it work with EasyGPS (which I don't have either. Remember, I'm new).
Comments appreciated.
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Originally posted by youngie:Has anyone else found that the microphone is not in the place mentioned in the manual? After realizing I had a low audio problem I did some testing and found the best transmit audio when speaking into the area of the speaker near the bottom of the radio. Maybe they changed the location due to waterproofing problems.
Youngie, answered this question in the other forum, but just to make sure you see it:
Not in my case. Seems to be in the little hole right below the "V" button to the left of the click-stick. Don't see any other holes, unless they (Garmin) incorporated it into the speaker holes. Haven't had any problems with communications, lets put it that way - hold the unit about 2-6" in front of your mouth, talk, and the other party hears you. Works for me. Don't really care where the mike is.
Out.
Cymbaline
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st_richardson, good idea. Edited my original post to reflect the 110/120.
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Originally posted by youngie:Has anyone else found that the microphone is not in the place mentioned in the manual? After realizing I had a low audio problem I did some testing and found the best transmit audio when speaking into the area of the speaker near the bottom of the radio. Maybe they changed the location due to waterproofing problems.
Not in my case. Seems to be in the little hole right below the "V" button to the left of the click-stick. Don't see any other holes, unless they (Garmin) incorporated it into the speaker holes. Haven't had any problems with communications, lets put it that way - hold the unit about 2-6" in front of your mouth, talk, and the other party hears you. Works for me. Don't really care where the mike is.
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Howdy.
If you own a Rino 110/120 and have a comment/question/answer/trick on the Rino 110/120, please put it here. Please keep this thread to comments/questions/answers/tricks on the Rino 110/120, and not other Garmin products. Please also to see the thread started by Alphawolf reagrding radio performance, but please share your findings here as well. Thanks.
If you are looking to buy a Rino 110/120, hopefully you'll get some of your questions answered.
To start, these are my my own submissions, plus answers from another user after I purchaed my unit, then my own.
Thought I'd condense the comments I posted into other topics one thread, and hopefully others will follow, good or bad, to assist other users.
Here's mine, in date order:
12/13/02:
New user warning!
After reading the forums and whatnot, I still went out and bought a Rino 110 today. Buddy of mine also bought one at the same time, different registers, same store.
Our one-day test:
Quite pleased with the location geometry with 1 (*ONE*, read: O-N-E) unit within 15 feet of the other. Closer than that and the other won't get more than one satillite to save the other's life. Once I turned off, we actually got within about 4 feet of published coordinates of a geocache, without WAAS. Pretty good, I think.
Radio coverage was actually decent. We tested this using my house as a waypoint. The hard part was that I have a rather large power substation about 1/2 mile as the crow flies from my house, which my buddy had to drive past. Even with that, we did a dead-reckoning (we both have nextel as well) of about a total of 3/4 to 1+ mile of reception. This is over a *generally* flat terrain, with powerstation inbetween.
Overall, quite pleased with the unit, except for my outstanding quesiton of "Yes, I'm here. Yes, I know where I've been. Please allow me to put in where I WANT to be!"
Dazzit.
12/13/02 - A user graciously tells me what's in the manual, as I haven't read it yet. RTFM!
I am assuming that you just want to put in a set of coords.
In that case it's a piece of cake. Turn the unit on. Push in on the click stick and hold it until a menu pops up. Highlight "Mark Waypoint" (it should allready be highlighted). Push in the click stick to select it. The waypoint screen comes up. Push up on the click stick to highlight the coords (they show where you currently are). Push in on the click stick. A menu pops up. change the coords to where you want to go. select OK. You can then click up to change the waypoint name and symbol, or click down to select Goto and the nav page comes up and leads you there.
12/16/02
Few days ago I posted my initial impression.
Semi-newbie alert!
Well, having used the Rino 110 a-farking-lot (original batteries I put in it when purchased Friday 12/13/02 are long-gone), I can now add the following:
- In the woods, the radio works great for about 1/2-3/4 mile over VERY hilly terrain. Radio works "decent" for about a 1 mile+ over semi-flat turrain.
- Location plots from neighboring Rino's are awesome. Just clicking the talk button updates RIGHT NOW.
- Mag North on this unit took me right were it was supposed to (evidently), based on a semi-half-baked inbetween waypoint. Was off by about 150 feet. Units fault? No. Mine. Should have set it to magnetic WHEN I should have set it to mag, not inbetween. TN + MN = gamble at your own risk, based on distance. Oh, the 150 foot differential was over a 3/10 mile basis. Know what you want to do beforehand, not during. Or, have a friend with an identical unit, you do one, they do the other. There's probably some newbie-factor faults in there, but i'm just saying... to error is magnetic, not human. Watch out for it.
- My issue with this unit is that it's either 1) mag north or 2) true north, no inbetweens and/or switching between the two mid-jaunt. No biggie, that's why I have a hand-held $20 compass. Just didn't know at the time.
- READ THE MANUAL. The Ref guide has a lot of stuff in it I missed when scanning it the first time. Save you a LOT of time and problems. For instance - did you know this unit has GAMES? Me neither, not til Sunday.
My overall review after a lot of intense hiking this weekend? GET THIS UNIT, or it's big brother the 120 (if you have the cash). Just have lots of batteries on hand - it uses 3 batteries, went through first set in 2 days, if you do a lot of hiking and/or use the radio a lot - I did a lot of both, hence fresh batteries died in about.. oh, 11? 12? hours of hiking. I didn't have WAAS running, and that shortens battery life even more. Normal usage (2-4 hours a day hiking, not a lot of radio/radio off use), you should get about 4-6 days use by my estimates, as long as you turn the unit off when not using.
Just my opinion.
That's it for now. I'll reply to this message on further observations, I hope you will too.
[This message was edited by Cymbaline on December 17, 2002 at 05:50 PM.]
[This message was edited by Cymbaline on December 17, 2002 at 05:51 PM.]
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Originally posted by BrianSnat:I like to place multi caches in order to force the hunter to take a specific route to the cache site. Sometimes it's to cut down on bushwacking, and other times it's to take them along a more interesting route. I try to limit them to 2-3 legs however. Personally, I think more than that becomes a chore, both for me as a maintainer and for the hunter.
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Precursor: I'm a newbie, but have found 4 caches in 3 days, one of them a 5/5. Took two days on the 5/5.
This one forces the hunter to go to a specific site. However, it's up to the hunter to figure out what to do next. Being a newbie, I bushwacked (bigtime) half of it. Second day, cheated and finished without a lot of bushwacking. Helluva fun time doing it, though, even though it's only a two-stage multi. Some say it's the best in Georgia.
I agree with you on cutting down on the principal of cutting down on bushwacking, but at the same time, for newbies like me it's part of the challenge to figure out what to do, given our skill level. I don't know (but am learning fast) how to read a topo map to save my life. I *do* now know how to work a compass like magic, and am digging out old-forgotten trig calculations from my teens. But then, there's gonna be other newbies who will never attempt a multi because it's more than a 1.5/1.5. (Shrug). Personally, I'd rather do a 4/4 or 5/5, but then i'm weird like that. More challenging the better. You (not you personally) are never going to get 100% participation in a multi, but you WILL get people to do it - stupid folx like me.
Even though I'm new at this, I realize that it must take a special sort of dedicated person to maintain a 4-stage+ multi-cache. Either that, or they do nothing BUT hike. I have plans for a 2-stage multi, but it's going to require special equipment, 5/4 folx need not apply. Going to take some time though.
Cymbaline
(the 5/5 site I'm talking about is River Bluff, in GA, for those interested. It's a 5/5 if you do it the stupid way, 4/3 if you do it the smart way. I'm stupid.
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Few days ago I posted my initial impression.
Semi-newbie alert!
Well, having used the Rino 110 a-farking-lot (original batteries I put in it when purchased Friday 12/13/02 are long-gone), I can now add the following:
- In the woods, the radio works great for about 1/2-3/4 mile over VERY hilly terrain. Radio works "decent" for about a 1 mile+ over semi-flat turrain.
- Location plots from neighboring Rino's are awesome. Just clicking the talk button updates RIGHT NOW.
- Mag North on this unit took me right were it was supposed to (evidently), based on a semi-half-baked inbetween waypoint. Was off by about 150 feet. Units fault? No. Mine. Should have set it to magnetic WHEN I should have set it to mag, not inbetween. TN + MN = gamble at your own risk, based on distance. Oh, the 150 foot differential was over a 3/10 mile basis. Know what you want to do beforehand, not during. Or, have a friend with an identical unit, you do one, they do the other. There's probably some newbie-factor faults in there, but i'm just saying... to error is magnetic, not human. Watch out for it.
- My issue with this unit is that it's either 1) mag north or 2) true north, no inbetweens and/or switching between the two mid-jaunt. No biggie, that's why I have a hand-held $20 compass. Just didn't know at the time.
- READ THE MANUAL. The Ref guide has a lot of stuff in it I missed when scanning it the first time. Save you a LOT of time and problems. For instance - did you know this unit has GAMES? Me neither, not til Sunday.
My overall review after a lot of intense hiking this weekend? GET THIS UNIT, or it's big brother the 120 (if you have the cash). Just have lots of batteries on hand - it uses 3 batteries, went through first set in 2 days, if you do a lot of hiking and/or use the radio a lot - I did a lot of both, hence fresh batteries died in about.. oh, 11? 12? hours of hiking. I didn't have WAAS running, and that shortens battery life even more. Normal usage (2-4 hours a day hiking, not a lot of radio/radio off use), you should get about 4-6 days use by my estimates, as long as you turn the unit off when not using.
Just my opinion.
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Hi Highlander,
I'm a newbie myself, and just bought my unit friday, 12/13/02, with a buddy of mine (he bought one as well, as he's soon going out-of-country). We looked at the Mag's and Garmin's, weighed the features and functions, what had a PC interface and what didn't. We *had* set a budget of about $120 for each of us..
After some online research during the prior week, we settled on the Garmin RINO 110. Picked it up at REI for $170. Originally, we were gonna get the the basic yellow Garmin $99-119 unit, but we liked the fact that the 110 had 1MB of memory, could hold 500 waypoints AND was PC compatible. Couldn't justify the $250 for the 120, and felt that the extra $50 would be well-spent, given that this unit has RFS capabilities to boot. Also took a look at the eTrex Venture (I think - the green one) for the same price, but kept coming back to the RINO 110.
Most of the Magellean units we looked at were outside our price range except for the entry units we could find, and those lacked some of the features/requirements we were looking for. Note: This is *not* a dig at Mag, just an observation for somebody who only got started in this at a time when I was looking for certain things.
Bottom line: What's your budget? If it's $100, I'd say get the Garmin yellow entry. If it's higher, well... I REALLY liked the Garmin RINO 120 and GPS V a LOT. Couldn't go there though, not for just starting. Paid a bit more than I was originally budgeting, but I'm very satisfied with the results so far with the RINO 110.
Dunno if this helps, just an newbie observer who has plans to nail 6 caches tomorrow.. er..today.. in 3 different/drive-to areas.
-Cym
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Probably a dumb question, but...
Outside of resetting the entire unit from true north to mag north, is it possible to change a projected waypoint from one to the other on ANY unit without resetting/setup the unit itself?
Tried a few times today on my Rino 110, ended up changing my unit to MN while my friend left his on TN to make sure we got to the right spot today. (We didn't, ran out of time before we could get there.)
I think the answer is no, but I'm curious as to whether other units have this capability.
Thanks!
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Originally posted by Cymbaline:Dang, that ain't exactly documented (I'll go back and look again), but that's EXACTLY what I was looking for, Nisk.
Update: This is in the manual (but not as well as Nisk explained it), on page 29 of the owners manual/ref guide, p/n 190-00251-10 Rev A. I missed it in our frenzy to find it.
Thanks again, Nisk.
a compass. And by "basic" I mean "find at least 75% of the caches in your area", not counting terrain. Cost: $50-200, including compass. Did I mention BUY A COMPASS? Yeah. Spend $10-20 and be glad you did.
Money In Geocaches
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We've got one in here in Georgia that was hidden by one of our more devious hiders that has nothing BUT money in it. You have to do a LOT of work to get to it, so it's an apt reward.
Check out Moolah, by JohnnieLacy and see the frustration in the logs.