[Garmin GPS not acquiring satellites]

Now mine (Vista HCx) is doing this. I have tried the hard restart and change location bits suggested on the Garmin website.

Webupdater gets to 13% then errors out as above. I have gone to the perry site mentioned above and downloaded the chipset files, but don't know how to install it manually. Any help?

[Garmin Vista Hcx chip set issue?]

After using the original Garmin Vista for a few years for hiking and geocaching, I'm looking to buy the newest Vista, which I think is the Hcx.

Looking for the best price I came along a confusing review on the www.newegg site.

A recent buyer claims the unit he got had an older non-high sensitivity chipset in it.

???

I thought the Hcx was the all new latest and greatest.

Is this guy lost or is this something to watch out for?

[National Geographic Topo States For Illinois ?]

I was going to look into that, but forgot about it. But I will now. The Forest Service has GPSed most of the trails or many of them in Shawnee. They have them in Archview Files. They had sent me a file a year ir so ago. Now that I know how to make Garmin maps, I tried making a map out of it. It took about 5 minutes to make a transparent trail map (but I may have used the wrong datum. I need to check on that). The way they work is they will overlay on the other maps. So you can use the 24K topo and they will show up. In mapsource, all you see is the trail. I will check with the forest service Monday and see what kind of data they have. Once I get the most up to date data, I will create a garmin map of the trails in Shawnee and upload it at http://mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com/

 

That would be great Myotis, thanks.

Would that by any chance include the River to River trail?

By the way, I emailed the folks at National Geographic with my question and they replied that their product is a straight scan of the USGS maps, so any trails included are just what the USGS put there.

Pity they didn't scan the forest service maps.

Les

[National Geographic Topo States For Illinois ?]

Does anyone know if the NG Topo States for Illinois software shows the trails in the Shawnee National Forest?

If not, do you know of anything that does?

I do some geocaching & hiking in that area and thought this might be helpfull.

I have the Garmin Topo 24k package but trail coverage is spotty at best.

Thanks for any help.

[Mapsource Topo Us]

Just picked up a used Vista (original).

I do a lot of hiking and a bit of geocaching.

Is the Mapsource Topo US detailed enough to be usefull for hiking?

I do most of my hiking in the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois.

Can I reasonably expect it to show the hiking trails?

Thanks.