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I am thinking about getting a Garmin Oregon 200 for geocaching. Any advice out there? Does anybody have one? Basically I am looking to get a unit for under $300. Have geocached before using a car GPS...painful. Advice greatly appreciated!

Hi; We are new to geocaching... We just bought a Garmin ORegon 200 and are trying to download cache information to our gps. We're not sure what we are doing wrong. Can anybody give us step-by-step directions? We have it hooked up to the computer, we've updated the driver, we've tried saving the file to the computer and on to the gps (though perhaps not in the right place). Help! Thanks!

I have the Oregon 200 with the TOPO canada Software loaded. While navigating to caches via car, the unit will give me turn by turn navigation, and the distance to the cache will update. Once I get out of the car and I touch the pin on the screen and move toward the cache, the distance stays at the car. The arrow moves, but the the only way I can tell how far I am from the cache is to touch the header at the top, and it tells me the distance from the waypoint, but it doesn't update dynamically of course. Sometimes when I zoom it it starts updating , but usually not. I've tried disabling maps, switching to pedestrain mode and I forget what else. Basically I have played with every setting I could think of. It's a new issue, and it's driving me nuts. I am ready to junk the stupid unit and get something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Of course, no matter how often I check it, things can happen. But I trust the logs. If the last log is 1 month ago and says the cache was in good shape, for me that is as good as checking it. If it goes a year without a find, I'll check it. There, I've said a specific time. Well, approximately. I'll make a note to check it, it might not be exactly 1 year that I actually check it. I was talking to a friend the other day. A very good CO. He owns around 200 caches, but maintains them. Any hint of an issue he'll address it. He said he has an ammo can which he hasn't visited since he placed in 9 years ago. It gets found regularly and no issues have been reported. You can argue he is not meeting his obligations and the cache should be archived or whatever.. but to me that is unnecessary. And that's just it - if you only own one cache, visiting it once a year isn't much, but if you own 200, having to visit each of them every year wouldn't leave much time for anything else, particularly if a lot were high-terrain rated and required considerable effort to reach. If you can't reasonably manage 200 cache hides you need to cut back. Only hide what you can manage. Better to have 25 monitored and maintained caches then an extra 175 caches that get no attention and become junk. Why this assumption that any cache that doesn't have the CO constantly visiting it will rapidly turn into junk? It sounded to me like you were excusing people who owned a lot of caches. My take on what you said was: If you own one then of course you can manage it regularly, if you own hundreds of course you can't. Someone with 200 active cache hides is likely to use cheap containers. Even at a dollar per container it will cost them $200. In my experience dollar store containers are leaky. Cheap bulk buy containers like bison tubes are leaky. Most likely those containers will be pill bottles, food containers, film canisters, bulk-buy bison tubes -- anything that can be bought cheaply in bulk, or rescued from the trash for free. And it's likely that prolific hiders will not hide anything bigger then an aspirin jar because it's easier to carry a sackful of pill bottles and drop them while travelling. Cheap containers need upkeep more often. Micro containers need upkeep more often -- the logsheet fills up faster and is often unsignable because it's soaked. From my experience people who hide 100s of caches rely on others to at least replace the log when it fills up or gets soaked. And finders will, which encourages COs to continue hiding 100s of cheap containers that they can't reasonably get to when problems happen. Nice. It looks like a tiffin box (lunch boxes used in India). Metal, sturdy latch. Very nice. My one concern is I don't see a gasket. Have you tried putting it under water? If it's watertight, that's an impressive container. Can you imagine hiding 200 of these?

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

Update: In order to test my idea and revive my caching in my home area, I have been revisiting over 200 caches during 2020! I do that with the rules that I have set up for myself: Must be at least 2 years since original find. Mysts and multis should be solved again. Only once per cache (or maybe after another 2 years, but that is irrelevant now). All revisits are properly recorded in a revisit history. Conclusion: In most cases, it feels like new! Caches are moved, vegetation has changed, I have often forgotten about the hiding place and/or the surroundings (especially when 7-8 years have passed). And I gave myself over 200 extra reasons to go out caching, often including cycling or walking long enough to be decent exercise. My own home area is suddenly fresh and new to explore as caching area. And I can do caching without travelling long distances to find ones I havn't logged.

OOPS! Deleted again. Oh Well, Here's a sanitized version : April 2, 2020 - Gas is 89 cents April 2, 2022 - Gas is $1.89 - Diesel is $1.93 (Gas, in this area at least, topped out at about $1.99, somewhat higher on the coast.) What a difference seemingly small things such as oil prices can exert upon our lives!!! Got an email from France a couple of days ago, and I quote: "€200 for 60 liters" [for diesel]. That translates to $Cdn4.60 per litre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which becomes $Cdn20.49 per Imperial gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now let's translate that further to US $ per US gallon for the US viewers: - $13.64 per gallon So, we can all quit our bitchin' on this side of the pond. The folks on the other side of the pond are taking an economic hit that we are, to date, fortunate to have somewhat avoided, in spite of what many may perceive! Keith

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

Those, almost blank puzzles, has been very interesting ones for me. Five years ago, a CO made series of ten D5 puzzle caches and each of them had 20 almost blank 500+ pieces Jigidi puzzles to solve in a row. I managed to make all of these 200 puzzles (about 100 000 pieces together) but got only six FTF of ten possible because some caches were too difficult for me to find. In Finland we have over 1500 Jigidi puzzle caches (list1 list2) and new ones are popping out continuously. In this context @Ms Maddy's complain about severe problems seems quite odd, because I have seen no discussion about such problems with Jigidi caches in Finland. In many cases Jigidi is only part of the cache idea to get more hints or another task (Like ROT-13). For example, in my own puzzle cache GC8YPR8 you must solve three Jigidi puzzles at first, but then you will get more challenges with another type of tasks. I think that you are absolutely correct, but statistics tells another story. The example puzzle above contains three jigsaws and when I open the leaderboard of the first one I see 478 solvers It is an amazing number of players!

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,

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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

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'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...

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?