+puzzleppl4jesus Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 We are thinking of returning our Cobra and going with the legend, but we want to make sure that we can use one of the softwares with the geocaching.com site to dowload waypoints and info into it. Amazon has a great price on this one! Quote
+ATMA Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 We bought 1 Legend last November and got my wife her own a couple of weeks ago. Nice units. Wanting to go paperless caching. With the help of a few people here, settled in with CacheMate on the Palm M500 and GSAK on the laptop. The 3 make an excellent combination. Very easy to use. If you only want to load waypoints into the Legend from geocaching.com, all you need is easyGPS or better still GSAK. A suggestion on batteries for the Legend are the Energizer 2500ma NiMH AA cells. You will get some great run time from them between charges. If you do exchange the unit with a Garmin, you will probably be really satisfied. Remember the Legend is a serial device so if your computer doesnt have a serial port, you will need a USB to Serial adapter. Wally World has them for about $23. Quote
+Miragee Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 You can download either the .gpx or .loc files from the GC.com site into the Legend using EasyGPS (free) or GSAK (not free, but very, very worth the $20.00.) You will be very happy with the Legend. Quote
+Navarone Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 We are thinking of returning our Cobra and going with the legend, but we want to make sure that we can use one of the softwares with the geocaching.com site to dowload waypoints and info into it. Amazon has a great price on this one! Yes you can I recommend GSAK. How much is it on Amazon? I picked it up on ebay brand new for $237. The guy has a store or something b/c he is alway selling them for around that price. Quote
+puzzleppl4jesus Posted August 29, 2005 Author Posted August 29, 2005 we found the legend at walmart for 138 or amazon for 132. I think we are returning this cobra and going with the legend. Quote
+Brian_R Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 we found the legend at walmart for 138 or amazon for 132. I think we are returning this cobra and going with the legend. I've recently purchased the Legend and it's been great. Another place to look is Dick's Sporting Goods. Recently they had a special on the Legend "Exploration Pack" which included the regular Legend items plus a car charger, car mount, case, and Garmin's Topo mapping software for $199. If you'd want the topo software I'd try to find a deal like this, but if not the Amazon price seems about right. Quote
+BoomerFZ1 Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 Don't know if they're still there but there WERE 60c's for $250 on amazon. Quote
+tirediron Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 The Legend and GSAK... can't beat the combo for 'caching! Quote
+WhatsRNutts Posted August 29, 2005 Posted August 29, 2005 I like ebay! I have a legend and I love it. I use to have an explorist 200 but I couldn't connect to the puter with it. Quote
+Camping Hoosiers Posted August 30, 2005 Posted August 30, 2005 For the money it is real hard to go wrong with the Legend. We own two of them and they work great for us. We have been using the Legend for several years now. I am also a huge GSAK fan. Quote
+puzzleppl4jesus Posted August 30, 2005 Author Posted August 30, 2005 we bought the legend today and so far I'm very impressed. I did have some trouble getting better than 30 feet today, but it was overcast and rainy, and I'm sure that had everything to do with it. Because earlier in better conditions, I was getting 7 feet. Quote
+ATMA Posted August 30, 2005 Posted August 30, 2005 Be sure to go in and enable the WAAS function. It will get a LOT better. Quote
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