Need some help with this one….

[+hockey_buddha]

I am very new to geocaching, so I apologize in advance if question has been covered before. I have a Vista HCX and I am currently using GSAK. Is there a way of attaching a note or some small text (such as a hint or general location like “by the tree”) to the cache when I send it to my gps? There is a note option available when I use the rocker and click on the chace itself, but it just repeats the title and placer of the chace. I would like to be able to customize this info.

[jmundinger]

I don't use gsak - I am content to use MapSource, the program that came with the unit, for editing waypoints.

 

If I want to edit the note, I download the waypoint to mapsource. Then, right click on the waypoint and select properties. The waypoint title etc. appears in that window. I delete that and replace it with the info that I want in the note - use shorthand because there is a limit to the number of characters in the note; don't go by the window on the computer because the computer will take more characters than will the gps.

 

Alternatively, after you have downloaded the waypoint to your gpsr, select the waypoint and scroll through the various fields to highlight the "note". Select the note (press the rocker button in). Then use the rocker and keypad to edit the note.

[+smithdk]

There is a macro that can be used to load most of the cache page to the unit. Here is a link to that macro:

 

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=8926

 

Right now there is a bug (with the latest macro) if you want to sort the pages. It will be off by about 60 feet so don't use that option yet until the owner can correct it.

[+IBcrashen]

There are also special tags

 

%hint sounds like the one you want to look at. But you are limited to 30 characters. The POI macro above has an 80 character limit, its the one I use and I only load the hints with the POI and still load the cache as a waypoint/cache. If I need the hint I just do a find/POI.