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I don't have anything to compare it to but my Nuvi 200 has worked well and I'm wondering how others feel about geocaching with it since it is the cheapest GPSr I can find. It can be a little jumpy sometimes abd some of the options are limited but you can't beat it for the price. I have found the POI to be a useful tool but can't seem to figure out how to do a mass delete of caches without doing a hard reboot and erasing everything. I know we are only limited to 500 and I don't know if that is low compared to better GPSr's. Overall, I am happy with my 200. It does everything I need it to from road trips to GCing in the woods on my mountain bike.

Ez a tema foleg a fenti GPS-szel rendelkezoknek szol. Nem tudom, szoktatok-e egyaltalan a firmware-t frissiteni es milyen gyakran. Szerintem a stabil verziokat megeri rapakolni (Garmin WebUpdater-rel lehet). En eleinte frissitgettem, aztan el is feledkeztem rola. Ma ujra frissitettem es sok ujat talaltam benne. Pl. mar lehet a GPS-ben a ladakat szűrni meret/nehezseg/stb. alapjan. A muszerfal resze is egy kicsit megvaltozott es kiegeszult. Aki eddig nem csinalta, de kedvet kapott hozza, az azert mindenkeppen ugyeljen arra, amit a program is kiir, hogy legyen elegendoen feltoltott elem a GPS-ben, nehogy pont az update alatt meruljon le, mert akkor lehet hogy csak a szervizben tudjak helyrehozni.

I bought a new Oregon 200 and I use a mac. For two days I have been trying to figure out how to get geocaches onto the gps. I installed the communicator plugin from the garmin site and it says my gps is connected but I am unable to get any geocaches on it. I tried a pocket query and dropping it on the the icon. I tried applications such as mac simple gps and geocache manager but none of these work. I miss the days of my old laptop and my gsak. Now I have resorted to manually keying in waypoints. Can anybody help me out? I am dying to get out there caching now that it is spring.

My non-profit, Big Love Little Hearts', mission is to make sure that all children with heart defects get the lifesaving surgery they need regardless of their economic status or country of origin. 1 in 100 children are born with a heart defect - that means roughly one million children are born every year with a heart defect and half of them will need surgery to survive. February 7 -14 is Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Week. As part of our Awareness Campaign we have minted 200 geocoins that look like our logo and we need your help!! We are looking for volunteers to hide our coins in caches all across the US and Canada...our goal is for them to be found again and again, so our only wish is that you don't hide them anywhere too difficult to find If you would like to participate, please email me at: erosenberg@biglovelittlehearts.org ASAP. The coins need to be hidden during CHD Awareness Week so we are mailing them out in the next few days. We hope you'll help us spread the word - CHD's are the most common birth defect and the #1 reason infants die in their first year of life! Peace, Estrella Rosenberg Founder, Big Love Little Hearts

I've been looking at the Garmin eTrex Venture HC. It seems to be positively reviewed by most people. I don't need much in the way of paperless caching, as I have an iPod touch with the official app. I just need a relatively basic but reliable GPS to help me find caches. That's about all as far as my criteria goes. What do you all suggest?

Does anyone know how to manually input coodinats on a Garmin Oregon 200? I cant seem too.

I have a new Triton 200, I really like the thing its neet tough waterproof ect. But I cannot get right numbers on it, i mean I can be standing right over top of a cache and the numbers are all a good way off, Same as with the gps in my truck the numbers dont match it either ? What am I doing wrong ? Or is there something im not doing right ? Is there a simple idots way to program in a cache location where we can find it , And how ? Every thing is manual here I do not have a computer cable, Any help would be wonderful

Greetings and salutations This is my first post on this forum, I hope it is in the right category. I'm planning to buy my first handheld GPS device (I already have Garmin Nuvi 200 for in-car navigation), and I will use it for: photo geotagging and track logging (most important - I want to turn it on, put it on my backpack and forget about it for ~12 hours) navigation (in cities as a pedestrian, I travel a lot) geocaching (least important) After few days/weeks of reading every possible review, I have narrowed my choice to two models: Garmin eTrex Legend HCx Pros Price (~210 euros) Battery life (I read it is about 22-24 hours?) Can save tracklog to SD card Wrist strap + belt clip Looks pretty durable [*]Cons Screen and interface (it looks OK on this photo, however, it is really ugly on this one) Garmin Oregon 200 Pros Screen Touchscreen interface [*]Cons Price (~360 euros) Battery life (10-12-14 hours?) Can not save tracklog to SD card Lanyard + carabiner, no belt clip (only 3rd party) I do not need features like barometric altimeter and electronic compass, so I picked Legend over Vista and Oregon 200 over Oregon 300. Now, I have few questions: 1. Oregon can save 20 tracks with 10.000 points. Does that mean, if it logs my position every second, one track will last 10.000 seconds = less than 3 hours? 2. What will happen when I fill one track with 10k points? Will it continue automaticaly with another track? 3. Can I use map for navigation while track is logged in background (multitasking) ? 4. Can I load Garmin NT maps to eTrex? 5. This page says that eTrex comes with wrist strap but I am unable to find a photo of it. Is it a true wrist strap like for Foretrex and/or Forerunner ? For now, I'm leaning towards eTrex (because of price and battery life primarely), but interface on Oregon is so much better Any suggestion will be appreciated Thanks

This was only purchased in May, but to be honest I have a passion against touch screens and just can't get to grips with this, so we are going to get a more tactile one. We are selling this on Ebay in the UK, but it anyone is interested and wants to buy it outwith Ebay and Paypal, please just email us at: coxandclan@googlemail.com It comes fully boxed and has hardly been used. It was recently tested to destruction on the Gadget Show, so there goes my idea of chucking it out the window when I have had enough of it!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=260667852409 Thank you Karen and Rob aka CoxandClan

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I transferred a GPX Pocket Query to the micro SD card installed in my Oregon. When I went to the Geocache menu nothing was there. I loaded the same files to the internal memory and I could now view them. Are you not able to load GPX files to the SD card? Do I need to change a setting to view them? Thanks

So I downloaded a 1000 caches pq a few weeks ago and it's dawned on me that I might need to update it regularly. But obviously I want to be able to keep all the found details I've got on my GPS. Or am I looking at this the wrong way. Should I delete every detail on my GPS then download a found pq and a local 1000 cache pq? Or am I getting completely mixed up, I feel I am. So far I've just unzipped the pq file and put it straight into the right folder on the GPS. Any help to get me sorted out would be appreciated,

I have a question, how to do I do the following? I have my pocket query waypoints downloaded to my GSAK database. Now in my GSAK database and I can't remember how to download these GC waypoints in my GSAK to my GPS. My GPS receiver is a Garmin Oregon 200. thanks, jeffreybike jhall@cal.ne

I've run the Garmin Dashboard on my new Oregon 200 twice now. Each time I follow the directions to upgrade the firmware. Each time after completing the upgrade, supposedly successfully, the Dashboard still shows that an upgrade is available. Any suggestions? I'll Google it, but someone had the Oregon wiki handy. I need to bookmark it. If it was you who had it handy, if you could just pop it in here for me in a reply, I'd be grateful. In the meanwhile, I'll try and find it with Google.

Sorry if this has been asked before. I'm trying to research to find a good GPS for geocaching. I want to be able to be paperless, but don't think I need all the 'extra's' of some of the high end units out there, and THINK the Oregon 200 will work for me. My main question is: It has a built-in basemap, but has 'options' to add on more through a microSD card? How much are these, and why do I need multiple maps? I'm a neebie sorry. Also anything glaringly wrong with the Oregon 200? Or should I start out with a similar unit that requires paper? like an etrex? So much information... Thanks in advance...

My brother bought an Explorist 200 a couple of years ago for hiking. We were talking about my 400 and how I was able (with help from the good folks here) to restore the WAAS function on mine and add detail maps. He asked me to look at his 200 to see if I could restore WAAS or add detail maps. The 200 has no computer interface or SD slot. So as far as burning in maps or firmware upgrades there's really nothing I can do. I checked the secret menu (03) and found that his 200 is looking for the inactive WAAS sats. Plus "WAAS" never appears in the accuracy box. I'd read somewhere in these forums (forgot where) that if you turn off the WAAS function that this frees up two extra channel slots that the GPS can use to look for regular active sats instead of wasting those channels looking for inactive WAAS sats . Figured this might help his unit in heavy cover (like we have in central Bama) if those channel slots are used for something productive. Once in the 03 service menu, how do you turn WAAS off? Thanks.

I have been compairing low cost paperless devices and I can see alot of places Oregons are not geocashing frendly but I see otherplaces people saying that they are great.. whats up? I can get a Lowrance Endura™ Out&Back ($180) or a Garmin oregon 200 ($220) for not much more.. which is gonna be the paperless geocashers dream?

Hello, I recently added some maps to my garmin oregon 200 and deleted the maps to switch to paid maps and it deleted my basemap. I was wondering if anyone has the basemap for these units, I believe the oregons all have the same basemaps. Thanks in advance, I did a search but didn't really help.

Hey all, I was in my local Costco's the other day and they have an Oregon 200 including the Topo map CD of Canada for $349 CDN. It looked like a good deal to me, but I can't find a lot of reviews on the 200 so I assume it's a new one. Looks like it's set up for paperless geocaching and although it has a small memory (24 megs?) it looks like it will take micro SD cards. Doesn't have a compass like the 300, but how important is this for geocaching? Anyone know of someone who has or has tried one of these?

Looking for help from the pros, found an Oregon 300 on EBay for around $200, have read enough of the forums to think the 300 would be a good unit for me to own, but not sure of the pitfalls of buying used to save $100+ on the purchase. What should I ask the seller or be thinking about? Accessories? Manuals? How old? Versions? Maps? I have no clue. TBC

Hola, qué tal. Me estreno en este foro haciendo una consulta sobre un pequeño problema que tengo con los GPX de algunos cachés que no se muestran en el mapa. Normalmente todo funciona bien, pero con ciertos cachés la cosa no va. GC1GBF2.GPX -> El Salvador (Ayamonte) by Alieri GCY2N3.GPX -> Cache Marim by NFreitas e AnaFilipa GC1RARE.GPX -> Terras de Aleixo [V. Real St. Antonio] by ajsa & golfinha adopted by Alieri GCZ9N5.GPX -> Canto Inferior Direito by clcortez adopted by alieri GC14QEY.GPX -> Percurso Aldeia Nova [Monte Gordo] by alieri GC1NGQ6.GPX -> Cache da Alagoa by Zd GC18E9.GPX -> BG04 - Cache da Lota by BVGeMCM He comprobado que aún con la sintaxis XML dentro del fichero GPX hay sentencias HTML puras que no permite dentro, incluso con algunos caracteres especiales da problemas. Lo curioso es que la mayoría de esos cachés están en Portugal o cerca. A alguno os ha pasado lo mismo??? Además, no me pasa con todos, solo con algunos! Saludos. PD: seguiré investigando y si encuentro la solución ya os la comento.

I recently bought a oregon 200 and somehow I have deleted the basemap that was preloaded does anyone know where I can download a new basemap. thanks

I've been thinking about getting an outdoor GPS. But, like most of us, am not too willing to gouge out 400+ bucks for the top of the line systems. Suggestions for no more than $200 systems? The Garmin eTrex Venture HC looks nice, and my walmart has one, so shipping won't be a cost on that one And another I see they have is the Magellan eXplorist 200 GPS, that is almost half the price of the Garmin. Still, suggestions are nice.

Has anyone used the Garmin GB Discoverer (Southern England) ... ? I like the detail of the software but is it suitable for geocaching? Additionally, to get the full use out of the Garmin 200, does this software run 3D views? At the moment, I am using some free software from Talkie Toaster UK but the map seems to lack detail. If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated!

I've been setting up my Triton today and the time is wrong on it.I've set the correct time zone but it's still about 20 minutes off.How do I set the time?