thebarks Posted March 5, 2003 Share Posted March 5, 2003 I wanted to know if alot of Geocachers use the PC Data Cables to download waypoints to your GPS units? I'm not sure I want to buy one. Is it worth the cost? Thanks! Hooah! Link to comment
+Markwell Posted March 5, 2003 Share Posted March 5, 2003 Absolutely. If nothing else, when you start using Pocket Queries, you'll want to download the data directly to your GPS. Definitely spend the money. Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 5, 2003 Share Posted March 5, 2003 A PC Cable is worth every dime even if they charge you twice as much as the cable is worth. (Ok they charge about 8 times what they are worth but...) Wherever you go there you are. Link to comment
+DustyJacket Posted March 5, 2003 Share Posted March 5, 2003 I would hate to have to CORRECTLY enter all these wayoints. Plus, you can then download tracks of your journeys, and do much more....... DustyJacket ...If life was fair, a banana split would cure cancer. Link to comment
+TrimblesTrek Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 Watch out who you buy it from... usually the GPS manufacturers charge WAY more than the product is worth for these kind of accessories. Example: Garmin eTrex data cable - Garmin cable: $38.00 - clone cable: $9.00 A HUGE difference. I have bought two cables via eBay from a guy called gpsGeek. Received my product in both cases in less than a week, and that was via snail-mail from California to Ontario. Cables are excellent quality. If yours is a Garmin product, check out: http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=32049213 TrimblesTrek Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 I've hunted a couple of caches. I have yet to dump coords to my 3+ using the cable. I'll probably try it out sometime, but I haven't bothered yet. I haven't found it too much of a pain to enter these manually. However, I recently bought six eTrexes (eTrexi?). I do find it much more of a pain to manually enter coords into these units. If I used an eTrex regularly, I would definitely download coordinates. Even if you don't use the cable to enter coords, it is handy to have one to upgrade your firmware. Link to comment
+Tubby Rower Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 I've also bought a couple of cables from GPSGeek. Well worth the CHEAP price that he charges. Clone cables aren't inferior just cheaply made (only $ not quality). Another plus was that the cig lighter power cable was coiled. That keeps the extra from cluttering the car up more than all of the other trash in my civic. Also, I've used ClayJar's watcher program to filter the pocket queries to give me caches along a route from my house in Virginia to my parents house in South Carolina. It was a total of 130 caches. I couldn't Imagine manually entering in each of those. kc row, row, row your boat Link to comment
+Mopar Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 Cant beat his prices, for what he sells the cables for it doesnt pay for me to order the Garmin pfranc connectors and make my own. Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Link to comment
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