+Team Bashspa Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Hi just starting out and trying to understand all the features of the Vista, When you select a waypoint it has an avg mode it has a count timer running how do you use this feature nothing in the book. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 If I am hiding a cache, I set my Vista HCx down at the cache location and let it average while I write a note in the log book, then place and hide the container. Sometimes it averages for a minute, other times for longer than that. That is the only time I have used the Average feature. Quote Link to comment
+Night Stalker Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 The counter is letting you know how many readings it has taken. After each new reading it is adding it to the existing readings and re-averaging. Supposedly the more readings the more accurate the average will be. I normally let mine sit about 5 minutes. The results seem to be pretty close. The last cache I did this with I checked with the first finder and he said that the cache was within 10' of where his GPS zeroed out. This was in heavy tree cover so I think that is good enough. Quote Link to comment
+Team Bashspa Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 Thanks This has helped a lot so the longer you let it avg the better coordinates you get. The book is a little vague on a lot things.I am new to this I started this hobby about two weeks ago with a old Garmin gps II that was not good took 4minutes to get signal ha ha. Thanks again bashspa59 Quote Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I will let my settle for 5 minutes and then take an average. I've noticed that if you let the GPS settle the average reading doesn't change from that reading very much at all. Quote Link to comment
jmundinger Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 The book is a little vague on a lot things. I'd suggest that you go to the Garmin website and look up the Vista C in the discontinued models and download the pdf file for the user's manual for that model. The functions on the two units are the same and the user's manuals for the older model has a lot more information. Quote Link to comment
+Team Bashspa Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 (edited) Thanks again went to the Garmin site downloaded the discontinued Vista C guide wow! It is the book that should of come with the Vista Hcx 100 pages verses 48 pages. Much more detail on several of the the functions including the games and details about avg waypoints . Thanks bashspa59 Edited April 8, 2008 by bashspa59 Quote Link to comment
+smbishop Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 The book is a little vague on a lot things. I'd suggest that you go to the Garmin website and look up the Vista C in the discontinued models and download the pdf file for the user's manual for that model. The functions on the two units are the same and the user's manuals for the older model has a lot more information. Great tip! Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.