DonB

When I was using Map Create all of my registered cards were 1GB so it sounds like you have a problem there. The trick you might be thinking of is there is a way to create map files on any unregistered card but you still have to have at least one registered card to put in the reader when you want to create a map. Maybe try and reinstall the software.

Rub the contacts with a pencil eraser or take a little concentrated lemon juice mix on a Q-tip and clean the contacts. I prefer the lemon juice method. The lemon juice method also works really well if a battery has leaked in a device.

Use the filters in the PQ.

I'm not familiar with the Magellan Explorist 310 but I'll take a shot in the dark. My Garmin will hold 1000 caches, but if I do a PQ that has caches that are over 50 miles from where I'm at it won't show them unless I search for them by name on the GPS or move to where they're within the 50 miles. Could you be having the same issue with your GPS?

If you plan on using it for canoeing I would think about a model that is not only waterproof but also will float.

In the first place I don't believe the original intent for virtuals was to place them in Disney world or in a lamp post, the reviewer should have disallowed them. I found the many virtuals that I did while traveling took me to many interesting places that I would have normally not found. Crummy virtuals existed because the reviewers allowed them. I believe virtuals were dropped because TPTB didn't want them anymore. Bottom line, I'll take a virtual any day over a bison tube in a bush.

Then why not post his questions on the forum, then everyone can contribute.

That's a word used in normal conversation by many of the younger generation.

Where have I heard that before?

I have only one question....you have a guardrail in your backyard?

As Harry Dolphin posted, use whatever you want, just don't try and change geocaching to suit the smartphone users, just because some people are too lazy to sign a log book and can't wait until they get home to log their caches. You say many smartphone users can't afford another piece of equipment to geocache, it costs me about $55.00 a month for my two phones. How much a month does it cost you for your smartphone with a data plan?

I guess I'm not most people, I don't use a smart phone, I use my phone to make and receive calls. I have several computers if I want to play on the net.

Call the police? In my town that's a joke, the first thing they tell you is if they didn't see it happen they can't do anything about it. I guess I would have just told him to take a hike.

Really? Is anybody going to use something like this as a criterion to determine which caches they want to go and find? If there's wifi they'll see it on their precious smartphone, if there isn't they can wait to log it until they have network coverage. I'm really struggling to see anyone building a query that says something like "show me the caches I haven't found near home but leave out the ones I can't log with the smartphone the very nanosecond I find them" ETA: If people really think it's that important they could always put something in the text to say "hey, free wifi here, you can like the cache on twitface the very moment you find it" +1

My priorities have changed since I first started from quantity to quality, that's why I have become a casual cacher. Mostly the ammo cans and caches big enough for trade items are gone, the virtuals have gone and that pretty much leaves micros. I can remember when we would go on a trip, do a PQ along the route and have no shortage of larger caches or virtuals.

If I'm understanding what you want to do try FizzyCalc, it's free and if I remember right it doesn't have to be installed.

We have had this discussion before. If the reviewers were as fussy with virtuals as they were with normal caches there shouldn't be a problem with flag pole or sewer grate virtuals. Another argument TPTB used to get rid of virtuals was that people were doing armchair virtuals. I find this to be a feeble argument because I have done enough virtuals to know there can always be a question asked as a logging requirement that would be impossible to get the answer to on the internet. My opinion on getting rid of virtuals was for some unknown reason someone at headquarters just decided they didn't want them anymore and there would be no argument no matter how valid would bring them back. Instead we got challenges, what a joke they were.

Your intent is good, but lots of luck finding caches big enough to leave anything in. I have a bag full of goodies that I'm having trouble getting rid of.

I don't do facebook. http://www.wi-geocaching.com/index.php

There are rattlesnakes in Wisconsin and I have lived here all of my life and I have yet to see one while in the boondocks. When I was a kid we spent hours in the woods in the summertime and still never seen a rattler.

TPTB claimed that too many virtuals could be done by finding the information required to log them on the internet. I don't know where that idea came from but it's not correct. I have done enough virtuals to know there is always a question that has to be answered to log the cache that would be impossible to be found online. My personal opinion is TPTB just didn't want to be bothered with them. I used to get the triple A tour books and state tourist information for the states we would be traveling through and virtuals still took me to many things that I would have never found otherwise. I agree that there were some virtuals that I could have been done by searching the internet, but that was because the CO got lazy and didn't make it hard enough.

Lets face it, geocaching isn't what it once was. It used to be there were plenty of caches where you could trade items, nowadays it's one micro after another. I'm not into numbers so the micros don't do much for me other then being an excuse for going for a walk. I have a large bag of swag and have a hard time finding a cache to put it in. Then the PTB all but done away with virtuals which were on the top of my list of favorites, especially while traveling. So over all I have become what I call a casual cacher, I probable haven't done more then a dozen caches since the first of the year.

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I don't know of an easy way with maps but the easiest way for me is I just multiply the .dddddddd times 60. Or you could use FizzyCalc which will convert the coordinates to three different formats at once.

It sounds like you've covered all of the bases, I think your next step would be to contact Garmin.