thcri Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 My sister in law has decided that she would like to start geo-caching. She is an advid bird watcher and the two would go together. I started out with an E-trex Vista but it is a bit more than what she wants to spend. I am thinking of the E-trex Yellow but I personally never liked that unit plus the antenna. What has most people recomended that could hook up to a computer to load the waypoints and would be fairly accurate. murph Quote Link to comment
+Cherokeecacher Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 I know it is a different brand, but the magellan Meridian Gold is a good GPSr that you/she should be able to find for around $199.99. It has the features you listed above, and will allow her to grow into it faster than she will grow out of it. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment
+CJB4589 Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 My wife and I started out with the Etrex Yellow over 2 years ago. We managed to find over 500 caches with it. Ranging from Boston to Las Vegas. We have had NO problems with it. We find it to be very accurate. We switched to a Legend a while back only because we decided the mapping features would be nice and we got a fantastic buy on it. We keep the "Yellow" as a backup unit now and it's attached to the laptop for real time navigation. I have no problem recommending the Etrex Yellow. Quote Link to comment
+john_underwood@charter.net Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 The Legand is has a lot of features and they are cheap right now. You can get it on line for $169 and then there is the $30 rebate. Quote Link to comment
+gbod Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 The Legand is has a lot of features and they are cheap right now. You can get it on line for $169 and then there is the $30 rebate. I second the motion. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 I know it is a different brand, but the magellan Meridian Gold is a good GPSr that you/she should be able to find for around $199.99. It has the features you listed above, and will allow her to grow into it faster than she will grow out of it. Just a thought. I magellans. However since she's a bird watcher and assuming she's in the woods doing it with tree cover I have to agree with a reccomendation of a Magellan. A sport track map, topo, or pro would also be worth considering depending on the price. Quote Link to comment
+Rubberhead Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 The Legand is has a lot of features and they are cheap right now. You can get it on line for $169 and then there is the $30 rebate. I second the motion. I third this motion. I'm also a very serious bird watcher (we call ourselves birders) and believe that the Legend is a great starter unit that won't need to be upgraded if they get more serious about GPS stuff. Quote Link to comment
+Mastifflover Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 I'll put my vote in for the Legend, especially at the prices now. Quote Link to comment
nick_02 Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 (edited) here is a link to a topic to get a legend for 132.00 worked 4 me (: link Edited May 21, 2004 by nick_02 Quote Link to comment
+quills Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 I would say to go for the Legend. I recently upgraded to the 60C/S but we still use the Legend everytime we cache and it was going for quite a bit more less than a year ago. It has alot of features for the prices they're getting now. Quote Link to comment
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