headart Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 HI everyone! Santa brought my 9 yo duaghter a Geomate Jr for Christmas. WE took it out today while walking the dog. All we found was a drunk! LOL! lil scary! I did update the Geomate Jr with the cable but it doesn't match what I am seeing on the GC.com website. For example. One cache is .3 miles from our home. The closest cache on the Geomate Jr is 1.4 miles. whats the deal? Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 The geomate jr only has select caches loaded to it. Those that have been in place long term and are a bit larger with lower difficulty. The unit holds something like 250,000 caches but there are many more out there. Quote Link to comment
NordicMan Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Hi & welcome to Geocaching I don't have a Geomate Jr. but from what I understand of them, they don't have *every* geocache stored in their memory.. They use a filter that is set to include only caches that are of a specific difficulty/terrain rating, and also the cache can't be too new. Probably other filters too.. Maybe the one .3 miles away was exempted from their list for some reason.. Quote Link to comment
+Geomate.jr Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 HI everyone! Santa brought my 9 yo duaghter a Geomate Jr for Christmas. WE took it out today while walking the dog. All we found was a drunk! LOL! lil scary! I did update the Geomate Jr with the cable but it doesn't match what I am seeing on the GC.com website. For example. One cache is .3 miles from our home. The closest cache on the Geomate Jr is 1.4 miles. whats the deal? G'day My name's Waz, and I work for the company that makes the Geomate.jr. Another poster is right - the FACTORY list is pre-filtered (to give the initial list some staying power etc) and doesn't include all caches. However, as it looks like you have the Update Kit, go to the "Select an Update" section of the Update area - here you can select either East or West USA. Each of these list contain ALL caches up to a difficulty 4. I hope this helps! Cheers Waz Quote Link to comment
WeThreeBs Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 We're new owners of the GeoMate Jr. too! We're taking the thing everywhere we go and finding caches (my six year old son LOVES it). There are a lot of caches on the site that aren't showing up (haven't purchased updater yet--will soon, though!), but today we found four by checking the site for the area, noting the coordinates, and finding the caches by using the directions. A good lesson for the kid, too. The small booklet with your GeoMate should explain how to go into the correct mode. Happy hunting! Quote Link to comment
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