gridlox Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 This was in today's local news: 06/01/06 By Matt Tuck, Rome News-Tribune Staff Writer Floyd County police were looking for $18,000 in GPS equipment that was reportedly stolen. According to Floyd County police reports: The victim told police he had left two GPS units in the toolbox of his truck, and when he looked inside the toolbox Wednesday morning, the items were gone. The truck was parked at his home at Old Dalton Road. $18,000!! for 2 GPS units? Me thinks someone is trying make a buck or two off of an insurance company! Quote
+BadAndy Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 http://cgi.ebay.com/Trimble-ProXRS-mapping...1QQcmdZViewItem Quote
+Renegade Knight Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 Survey Grade GPS equipment is very expensive. However if they ever used it to hide the cache you know they would have good coordinates. Quote
gridlox Posted June 2, 2006 Author Posted June 2, 2006 http://cgi.ebay.com/Trimble-ProXRS-mapping...1QQcmdZViewItem Survey Grade GPS equipment is very expensive. However if they ever used it to hide the cache you know they would have good coordinates. WOW!! I guess I stand corrected!! Hopefully we won't have any new geocachers in the area hiding dead-on coordinate hides. Don't need the type that would do this. Quote
+Team Shydog Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 I have always thought that would be cool to pull something like that Trimble unit out when you have that one person who always says the cords were off by 6 feet. "I'm sorry, but it appears your yellow etrex might just be off ,sir" Quote
+Deliveryguy428 Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 I have always thought that would be cool to pull something like that Trimble unit out when you have that one person who always says the cords were off by 6 feet. "I'm sorry, but it appears your yellow etrex might just be off ,sir" All the yellow extrex's I've seen while out with people have held their lock better then any other garmin and those little units zero out more times on a cache then I've ever. Now they have re-packaged the yellows with WAS and a compass, so your getting the same software as the better models for less money Quote
+Team Shydog Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 I am sorry, I did not mean to offend the yellow etrex users of the world. I have one as well. The little guy is just under the weather at the momment. Quote
+Deliveryguy428 Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 Ha ha ha ha ha ha....you didn't cause I don't use one ...I'm a big bad venture user...(HA) Seriously though, they are a good little GPS for those who want to start small and they are really cheap and easy to come by. Quote
+TEAM 360 Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 So, uh...ahem...anybody wanna buy a couple of really cheap GPS units here? Don't ask me for a receipt, though... Quote
gridlox Posted June 3, 2006 Author Posted June 3, 2006 So, uh...ahem...anybody wanna buy a couple of really cheap GPS units here? Don't ask me for a receipt, though... Sure! Please PM me your Name, Home Address, & a $$ amount and "We" will get right back ASAP! Sgt. Gridlox Floyd County Police Theft Recovery Squad Quote
+sledgehampster Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 Maybe Deaglos took em. Coord's might be better... Quote
+AuntieWeasel Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 All the yellow extrex's I've seen while out with people have held their lock better then any other garmin and those little units zero out more times on a cache then I've ever. Now they have re-packaged the yellows with WAS and a compass, so your getting the same software as the better models for less money As an aside, I have to second this. I have a Legend, which I love, but it's a bit flakey at times. I've gone hunting with two other Little Yellow users, and their units locked signal better and were steadier and more likely to zero out than mine. Quote
+wimseyguy Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 Survey Grade GPS equipment is very expensive. However if they ever used it to hide the cache you know they would have good coordinates. I found a cache hidden with one of those a few years back in Nashville. I see it's been archived, but it was pretty easy to find that nail in the parking lot (even in the dark of night.) Then we had the mallcop pull up on us while searching for the final stage. We ended up borrowing his BFL to make the find, and had him sign the logsheet too. Quote
gridlox Posted June 3, 2006 Author Posted June 3, 2006 Maybe Deaglos took em. Coord's might be better... I didn't even notice that! It is over in his neck of the woods, isn't it! Come to think of it... Don't you work out that way also? Where were you on the night of the 31st ?!? Quote
+Glenn Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 I have always thought that would be cool to pull something like that Trimble unit out when you have that one person who always says the cords were off by 6 feet. "I'm sorry, but it appears your yellow etrex might just be off ,sir" All the yellow extrex's I've seen while out with people have held their lock better then any other garmin and those little units zero out more times on a cache then I've ever. Now they have re-packaged the yellows with WAS and a compass, so your getting the same software as the better models for less money I bought one of those yellow Garmins as a backup unit when my green Magellan was recovering from a dip in the ocean. The Magellan is as good as new after its isopropyl alcohol bath. So I sometimes have both units on me. What I've noticed is that the Magellan has no problem under light leaf cover. However with the Garmin has trouble maintaining a lock on enoough satellites under even light leaf cover. I've also noticed that although initially the Magellan will overshoot the cache, when it stops yo-yoing the readout (feet from cache) stays pretty solid. If I stand still it won't very more than 1 feet. When I use the Garmin it doesn't overshoot the area but when I stand still to see where I am the readout will constantly jump around, as much as 10 feet at times! YYMV. I've only owned the Garmin for about 2 months while I've had the Magellan for over four years now. Overall the Garmin is a good unit but I wouldn't want to ever use it to place a cache. Quote
+deaglos Posted September 17, 2006 Posted September 17, 2006 ok i am a bit late in here, but if i took an 18k gps then I would hope it would work better then the one i use lol Quote
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted September 17, 2006 Posted September 17, 2006 ok i am a bit late in here, but if i took an 18k gps then I would hope it would work better then the one i use lol Nah, won't help, Deaglos! Their GPS will still be off and they'll still swear it's your coords! We did this at an Arkansas event - had the city surveyors use their multi-thousand dollar Trimble equipment to bury a nail in a grassy field. We gave all attendees a numbered flag on a stick and challenged them to place it closest to the given coords. Garmin eTrx Legends took first and second place, at four inches and one foot away, respectively. The remainind thirty or so flags were all over the field, with my Magellan Meridian Platinum being the furthest at 60-something feet! Ed Quote
+mgbmusic Posted September 17, 2006 Posted September 17, 2006 http://cgi.ebay.com/Trimble-ProXRS-mapping...1QQcmdZViewItem for $4,000 that thing better go get the cache for me too! Quote
Jake - Team A.I. Posted September 17, 2006 Posted September 17, 2006 http://cgi.ebay.com/Trimble-ProXRS-mapping...1QQcmdZViewItem for $4,000 that thing better go get the cache for me too! Not quite, but it does have a mechanical hand that smacks you in the head and says "It's back there, dummy!" Quote
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