Gil52 Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Hello Folks, I am completely new to Geocaching and I would like some help here if possilbe. I have recently purchased a Garmin Ique 3600 Palm Pilot/ GPS combination and have downloaded GeoNIche into it but cannot seem to get it to activate. I guess my questions are: Has anybody out there used the Garmin Ique for geocaching and what sofware are you using if not GeoNIche. Until I can get my unit to work with Geoniche or whatever I have not started on first hunt yet. Many thanks in advance Gilbert Nelson Quote Link to comment
+W7WT Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Not an expert on the subject but noticed no one was answering your question. I to have the iQue 3600 but only plan on using it to bring me to the parking lot. Then I will use my 76S or MAP 330 to find the cache. The iQue is not the best for Geocaching but can be used as a "stand alone" device. Put it on "off road" and practice going to a spot in your lawn or in a park. Watch the distance on the top of the map and get it down to as low as possible and then look for the cache. It is a great unit but not that user friendly for a first time GPS. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any other questions. I am trying to learn about it myself. Dick W7WT Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Another piece of software that may help you is Cetus. Quote Link to comment
+apollo08 Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I use a Garmin Ique 3600 and use the Track feature. The orientation plus the distance to the cache is all you need to zero in on a cache. I find it to be extremely accurate and once it locks onto satellites it just does not want to let go. I even use it in the car resting on my console and it very rarely loses reception and if so regains it quickly. I travel quite a bit and rent various make of cars. I am not familiar with the software you are trying to use with it but Garmin's FAQs state that at present there is no capability for the 3600 to have dialogue with a PC. This is unfortunate because entering waypoints manually can be a pain. Quote Link to comment
Gil52 Posted December 3, 2003 Author Share Posted December 3, 2003 Thanks to all who have given advice on the Garmin IQue 3600. I will try them all. Should be interesting now that the snow is on the ground here in Canada. Gil Quote Link to comment
+Team BlackZ Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I just found out from Garmin today that the iQue 3600 does not have a compass page. Wouldn't that make it a bad choice for geocaching? Quote Link to comment
martmann Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 (edited) No, if you do a rout to the cache, and select off road (and have "Track Up" instead of "North Up"), you will have The rout line pointing to the cache, just like the arrow on a compass page of other GPSs, and there is a little arrow in the upper left corner that points north. Plus you get to keep the map visible. I have cached with my Street Pilot III (had to, etrex was at Garmin), which works the same way, and it works really well (I like it better than a compass page). With caches that require you to take a heading, it's not good, but I have yet to do one of those. Edited December 3, 2003 by martmann Quote Link to comment
+pwest Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Cachemate (http://www.smittyware.com/), along with a Geocache premium membership, will let you download a boatload of cache database entries, sort them by distance, etc. Pretty nice to have inside your 'que -Phil Quote Link to comment
+apollo08 Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 You can configure the Ique3600 to display either heading or compass points Quote Link to comment
+ATC Dude Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 We LOVE our iQue 3600, and use it exclusively, but I have not figured out a way to enter waypoints other than manually. When we park the car, we change the routing preferences to "off Road", and zoom in all the way (120'). We'd love to find a way to enter waypoints via computer, and already enter cache pages via eBooks. Maybe someday, we'll get a rugged GPSr and leave the iQue in the car, but for now, it's all we have, and it works very well. ATC Dude Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 At Garmin's website, there is an add-in to Palm Desktop. Well, several, actually, but one allows distilling waypoints from files saved with MapSource. So if you can get your waypoint into the ordinary Mapsource program, then you can get it into the iQue. Then there are some other utilities, written by other people. One allows conversion of the search files from the geocaching site, to insert them directly into the iQue address book. The program from Cetus, referenced above, gives the iQue a compass page. But it has its own list of waypoints, so it doesn't interface very well with the other GPS applications in the iQue. ThatWay is another program, which may do the same thing. But Cetus is free. Quote Link to comment
+ATC Dude Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Thank you VERY much! I'll give it a try. ATC Dude Quote Link to comment
mapper_gps Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 FUGAWI GPS Software lets you load raster topographic maps into the iQue and transfer cache (waypoints) back and forth between the PC and the iQue. Almost any raster topographic map can be used, even ones you scan yourself. www.fugawi.com Quote Link to comment
+mtnmunch Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 ATC Dude, Have you looked at cachemate? I just got an iQue, and it was so easy to load in the way points using cachemate. Pretty much from Cachemate you can export out your caches to a category in your address book. Then go to the FIND feature on your iQue, then Waypoints, and you'll see all your caches. Then just choose Route To. When I'm all done with those, I just go into address book and delete the address book listings from a new category I made called "geocaches". And cachemate will also hold all your descriptions, hints, previous logs for your caches. Along with allowing you to place your own log for that cache. Quote Link to comment
+ATC Dude Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) Yes, I've got the trial version of Cachemate in now, and when I get home from our Christmas vacation, I intend to get the real version; it works pretty well! On another note, I have discovered (the hard way!) that traveling with the iQue and no way to Hotsync is VERY risky! My iQue has lost its memory and rebooted several times, probably due to static, and no longer gives me verbal navigation. I am buying an eTrex to take on the trail and will keep the iQue in the car where it's safe, and I guess, send it back to Garmin for the static electricity problem repair, and then buy a traveling Hotsync cradle. Thanks for the help! ATC Dude Edited January 2, 2004 by ATC Dude Quote Link to comment
+mtnmunch Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 ATC Dude, I was out caching with a friend of mine who had just gotten his iQue back in October. And the same thing kept happening to him, a little static electricity and it would hard reset itself and lose all the info. He then went and got a back up SD card and a little program. But the last time he had a big static shock, it wiped out his iQue from being able to sync with the Satellites. He called Garmin and there is a problem with the iQue and static electricity and he sent it back and they fixed. Have you called Garmin about the problem with it losing the data? Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 At PDAstreet, there is a lot of information regarding the iQue. I have distilled a lot of common questions, and answers, out of this forum, and thus created this iQue FAQ. Have a look. You may find something you didn't know before. Quote Link to comment
+JeeperMTJ Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Hi, I just got me an IQue 3600. I still have my GPS III tough :-). I also use Fugawi with the IQue. But mainly for offroad navigation when we´re out jeeping. I have two question, maybe one of you can help. 1. Is there a possibility to enter waypoints directly in the Fugawi PALM-Application. Not in the PC-Software, which works fine. I haven´t found a solution to this one yet 2. How do you enter waypoints in the IQUE the fastest way. The only thing I came up with was to use the Map Screen, then a click on the flag (which marks the current position) and then change this manually. But there must be a faster way, or? TIA for the help. Martin Quote Link to comment
+ATC Dude Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Thanks for all the answers. To enter waypoints manually, go to "Menu" (the house icon), and then "Addresses". At the bottom, tap "new" and type a name or waypoint, then tap "Done." Then, tap at the end of the line for the new address, where the flag icon would be if the address had a waypoint. A new window will come up asking you how you want to enter the location. Tap on "Manually" and enter the Lat/Longs. Once you do this a few times, it goes pretty quickly, but I really prefer to download them when I can! ATC Dude Quote Link to comment
+JeeperMTJ Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Thanks for all the answers. To enter waypoints manually, go to "Menu" (the house icon), and then "Addresses". At the bottom, tap "new" and type a name or waypoint, then tap "Done." Then, tap at the end of the line for the new address, where the flag icon would be if the address had a waypoint. A new window will come up asking you how you want to enter the location. Tap on "Manually" and enter the Lat/Longs. Once you do this a few times, it goes pretty quickly, but I really prefer to download them when I can! ATC Dude Thanks a lot. Pretty easy once you know how to do it. I came up with the problem on a multilevel cache where you were give new coordinates in one of the stages. Martin Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Keep the jog wheel pressed for a second, and you go directly to the "Enter waypoint" dialogue. Quote Link to comment
+ATC Dude Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 I bought the real version of Cachemate ($7), and I LOVE it! I highly reccomend it. With that and a Premium membership to Geocaching.com, you get all the info you need, and then you tap on "map" ant the software maps it for you as a new waypoint. I also got an eTrex to carry in the field, so that the expensive iQue can stay in the car! ATC Dude Quote Link to comment
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