Help a new beginner

[Cowgirl Fyn]

Hi

I am totally new in geochaching and I have a PDA

Mio A 701 - can I use it for geochaching ?

And I am an plug and play person who really needs help...

Cowgirl

Denmark

[NordicMan]

Hi & welcome to Geocaching

 

I'm not familiar with that model PDA.. does it have a GPS receiver built-in?

 

..can you key in coordinates manually into it?

 

If you answer "yes" to both questions then yeah there's a chance you can use it for Geocaching!

[+tekkguy]

That Mio phone should be fine.

 

You will have to (probably) change the setting on the GPS chip to turn off static navigation if it's anything like my Pharos phone. There's a (fairly) simple app you can use for that, but you might want a techie friend to do it for you, because you could possibly brick the GPS chip ...

 

The specs on the phone say it's Windows Mobile, so you shouldn't have any issues at all ... there are plenty of Geocaching apps for Windows Mobile.

 

Good luck!

[+briansnat]

I think you'd be better off with a dedicated hand held GPS. You can find caches with your Mio but it's not the best tool for the job.

[Cowgirl Fyn]

Thanks for the help

My Mio already has an GPS device - but I can only put in an adress not koordinates...yet.

Will try and find a danish geochacher who can help me set up the PDA so I can use it

then later I might buy a better one....

THANKS

[+tekkguy]

I think you'd be better off with a dedicated hand held GPS. You can find caches with your Mio but it's not the best tool for the job.

 

You are right about that ... I love my Oregon.

 

But, I started with a Windows Mobile phone, and it was ok. It's great for casual caching, and you've always got it with you - but when I decided caching was going to be a serious hobby, I went for the dedicated GPS.

[Cowgirl Fyn]

Thanks for all the help

I have now downloaded the file Richesse GPS and it works fine on my Mio A701 PDA

and today i found my first cache.

This is fun - and I am sure later on I might buy a better GPS for GC....but for now its

OK for me....

In my town (10.000 citicens) there are 5 caches....Thank God its friday

Cowgirl

[djhobby]

I've found hundreds of caches with my Windows Mobile phone using the Geocaching app GCZII. A friend of mine uses Cachebox on his Mio and likes it. The only reason I have a stand alone GPS receiver is in case I want to cache in the rain or in wet conditions.