+Tinman and Lady Em Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I have an opportunity to purchase a Garmin 72 and would like to hear some feedback about how well it works for geocaching. Thanks Quote Link to comment
RuideAlmeida Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 21 minutes ago, Tinman and Lady Em said: ... how well it works for geocaching. I think that doesn't have street maps... 1 Quote Link to comment
+Tinman and Lady Em Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 don't need road maps got a Nuvi for that I just need to know how well it works for geocaching for ex. accuracy? Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 12 hours ago, Tinman and Lady Em said: don't need road maps got a Nuvi for that I just need to know how well it works for geocaching for ex. accuracy? We gave one away as a FTF prize once. Its new owner used it for a while and bought a 60cxs. IIRC, the 72 came out even before our ancient etrex blue legends that we bought in '04, and we upgraded a year after using them for 60cxs' ( now long-discontinued too.) The patch antennas in the legends didn't do well for us in just full leaf tree cover, and forget about gorges. The 72 probably won't fair much better. The 72 does store waypoints though, so I guess if you don't mind losing signal once in a while, maybe only able to load caches manually, it'd be okay as a starter GPSr. If not using a phone and app today, I probably wouldn't go less than an etrex 20 as a basic GPSr. "Accuracy" of civilian GPS hasn't changed since then though, still around ten feet on a perfect day. Perfect days don't happen often enough. Quote Link to comment
+captnemo Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 First GPS was a 38 (may be wrong on the number) but upgraded to a GPS V which I still use withe the smart phone. When the phone goes hinky I dig out the V, did that a lot on the Siberian Matrix. Quote Link to comment
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