+zcubed Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I have misplaced my Garmin, I hate to think it is lost! We have nice weather this weekend and I am stuck My wife said that she thought about hiding it, but insists that she has nothing to do with its disappearance. I have even seriously considered using my Nextel phone that has GPS function, but I know it would probably just be an exercise in frustration. Luckily I already had planned out a hide before I lost it so I have put the finishing touches on that and now have it in for approval. Anybody else get stuck like me for one reason or another? Is there a 12 step program for Geocachers? Quote Link to comment
+webscouter. Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 (edited) Hi I'm webscouter and I'm an addict. That's why I have two Garmins. I bet if you told your wife that you were going to go buy a new Garmin 60cs, if she did hid your unit it would show up pretty quickly. If not you have a new 60cs. Don't forget to get the mapping software with it. Edited February 12, 2005 by webscouter. Quote Link to comment
Kybra Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I have had a chuckle when I see GPS units with camo covers, if you put it down in the scrub not only have you lost your GPS but you're up the creek 'cause you'll be lost as well Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I lost my first GPS. I think it was stolen by a babysitter, actually. She probably thought it was a cell phone then was too embarrassed to return it. I didn't get to go caching for 5 or 6 months after that until I bought a new GPS Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 I have already told her I was going to go buy a new one and she said to wait to see if the old one will turn up, I do believe her because I'm cranky, and I'm sure she would give it back just to end my whining. I'm sad to say I misplaced it around the house, I think. I think I am going to go find the webcam cache nearby. Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 I didn't get to go caching for 5 or 6 months after that until I bought a new GPS [/color] GASP! Months! I don't know if I could do it. It's hopeless for me I think. Quote Link to comment
+strikeforce1 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I have misplaced my Garmin. Where's the "clapper' when you need it. Anybody else get stuck like me for one reason or another? Nope, Just buy a back up. When's your birthday ! Mrs zcubed, did you here that! SF1 Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Missplace my GPSr? Are you crazy!??! My bananna is to me what a purse is to a little old lady... I hardly ever leave the house without it - even if I know there's no way in hell I'm going to do any caching that day. Quote Link to comment
+calipidder Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 My Magellan died on me back at the end of November. Due to Magellan's SLOOOOOW customer service response and the holidays, I didn't get to send it in for repair until recently. My last cache find was so long ago...*sniff* Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I didn't get to go caching for 5 or 6 months after that until I bought a new GPS [/color] GASP! Months! I don't know if I could do it. It's hopeless for me I think. Well, I found another hobby during that time, hence my post count in the forums Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 go buy another one. keep the sales slip. you should find the old one within 24 hours. that's the way it works around here. when you find it, take the new one back. Quote Link to comment
klassenl Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 go buy another one. keep the sales slip. you should find the old one within 24 hours. that's the way it works around here. when you find it, take the new one back. Or maybe try to take the old one back. LK Quote Link to comment
+medic208 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 (edited) Oh my! I know exactly what you mean. I think my GPSr fell out of my truck about a month ago... I've been going crazy and having withdrawals ever since. My friends have all laughed at me when I said I lost the GPSr... kind of funny actually . Hopefully uncle sam will buy me a new one next week with his yearly present - lol. Good thing I don't need one to lurk in the forums - Edited February 12, 2005 by medic208 Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Jay Leno does his "Headlines" feature one night a week. He thought it was REALLY funny that someone put an ad in the paper for a lost GPSr, as if that wasn't possible. I felt for the person who placed the ad . . . and knew that wasn't funny AT ALL! Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I have already told her I was going to go buy a new one and she said to wait to see if the old one will turn up, I do believe her because I'm cranky, and I'm sure she would give it back just to end my whining. Ummmm... How well does she love you? Monday is a "Special Day"!! Could be she's sold the old one to get you a nice surprize? Does she know which one you want to step up to? Sorry, just wishfull thinking on my part! My wife knows so much about GPS units, that if she were to buy me one, I'd have to figure out how to cache in areas that I could only plug a drop cord into!! D-man HOPE I HAVEN'T GOT YOUR HOPES UP FOR A BIG LET DOWN COME MONDAY! SORRY! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 You can try bagging a cache without your GPS. Its fun and a bit of a challenge, but do able. Quote Link to comment
+GRANPA ALEX Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I really did what you did . . . tore up the house, ripped open the closets, took seats out of my geocar - everything you can think of to find it. Made everyone around me feel dreadfully sorry for me as I shopped for a 60CS. What is cool, I got the 60CS and then found the Legend in an old coat pocket, ain't life grand? I used the 60CS to navigate roads and the Legend to cache, life was trending well & I was a happy camper. Then a man who was along for the ride caching one night, put my Legend in his pocket but it was grand, while it lasted. Go for the 60CS, you will be so happy . . . if the other one shows up, you will be ecstatic. Do nothing and simply cut your wrists, one can not live without caching. Quote Link to comment
+RoyalRed Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I read a story in Backpacker magazine about a hiker who lost his GPS. Luckily he had entered his home coordinates as one of the waypoints. (Of course you must name it 'HOME"). He wrote that within 1-2 weeks of losing it (unfortunately I believe he had already purcahsed a replacement) the wayward GPS shows up in his mailbox. Someone had found it and translated the HOME coordinates into an address and mailed it back to him. Obviousely the chances of someone finding your GPS that could figure out how to use your HOME coordinates to mail it back to you are slim but thought this was a refreshing story. Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 13, 2005 Author Share Posted February 13, 2005 I have searched everywhere, all the coats, drawers, the trash, closets, cars, and I even looked in the freezer/fridge. I am slowly accepting the fact it is gone. I found a web cam and a night cache that I thought I could do without the GPS, I found both. I did have my home coords in it, but I think I lost it at home. Kids could have squirreled it away somewhere. I only hope that it shows up when I buy another one. Quote Link to comment
peter Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I read a story in Backpacker magazine about a hiker who lost his GPS. Luckily he had entered his home coordinates as one of the waypoints. (Of course you must name it 'HOME"). He wrote that within 1-2 weeks of losing it (unfortunately I believe he had already purcahsed a replacement) the wayward GPS shows up in his mailbox. Garmin's had a similar story on their website for years. A blind man used an eMap together with some navigation software on a laptop to find his way around. Unfortunately he lost the eMap in a local park, but it was found by someone who figured out how to operate it and then used it to navigate to the "HOME" waypoint. See: http://www.garmin.com/whatsNew/adventures/story10.html Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 When I bought my Garmin, the first thing I did was enter my name and address and have it start up with that showing before anything else. Having someone figure out the home address from the coordinates is absolutely brilliant . . . great stories! Quote Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 (edited) That happened to me!!!! I looked and looked all over, and finally decided that I had set it down at a cache site and forgotten to pick it up. I went a few months without (luckily we were busy at work then) later I borrowed a yellow Garmin from my Bro. but then I was so frustrated without the "click stick" I went out and bought a new blue one. In the end I found it behind a candy wrapper way in the back, under the passenger side of the seat in my work truck ( as I was cleaning it out to pass on to another driver. I'm glad I was nice and gave the truck such a thorough cleaning). What to do with the extra then? Find a muggle friend, and sucker them into becoming one of us (sold if for $100). The moral of the story is, "check in the WAY BACK under your seat" in the meantime, if you REALLY need a fix, TRY THIS but you'll need a rubber stamp Or you can go hunt some Benchmarks Edited February 13, 2005 by WRITE SHOP ROBERT Quote Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 When I bought my Garmin, the first thing I did was enter my name and address and have it start up with that showing before anything else. Having someone figure out the home address from the coordinates is absolutely brilliant . . . great stories! I'm setting mine to do that right now!!! Quote Link to comment
+chaos reloaded Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I lost my first GPS the day after I got it. Now I look back at the incident and laugh. Quote Link to comment
+BadAndy Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I leFt my sportrak sitting on a rock in the boonies once. Tore up the house the next weekend looking for it. Finally remembered the rock, went back and there it was, covered in snow, frozen to the rock. Thawed it out and put in fresh batts. Works as good as the day I got it. I was on the verge of getting a new one before I found it. Quote Link to comment
+Anonymous' Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I lost my GPS a few weeks ago, I searched for hours and finally found it in a box where I keep my Geocaching stuff, right where it was supposed to be. I looked everywhere but the place I always put it. Quote Link to comment
+BBFlatt Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 (edited) I was playing with my Garmin eTrex Vista today and discovered what appears to be an undocumented feature. From the main menu page, if you bump the clik stick once to the left and press, you get a little window that says "Owner Information" click on that and you get a screen to fill in your name and address. There's a check box at the bottom that makes this info display at power-up. I could find no mention of this in the manual. Don't know if this is on other eTrex models but its worth a look. Sure beats programming your home coordinates and hoping someone can do a reverse lookup for your addy. Regards, BBFlatt Edited February 14, 2005 by BBFlatt Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 As I stated earlier, I also did this. I bought my eTrex Vista on eBay and the seller forgot to include the manual. So I spent that first day clicking the buttons and trying to figure out what they did. Somehow I found that screen and entered that information before I even knew what a "waypoint" was . . . Quote Link to comment
+Apple Dumpling Gangg Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! BBFlatt! After my FIL gave us his Vista, M stumbled onto that page only long enough to delete a letter the first time he played with the GPSr, but could not remeber how he did it for us to change the information. We have read the manual from cover to cover and scoured the boards, but never found anyone who could tell us how to do it. Our Vista now has the correct owners information! Quote Link to comment
+MaxEntropy Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! BBFlatt! After my FIL gave us his Vista, M stumbled onto that page only long enough to delete a letter the first time he played with the GPSr, but could not remeber how he did it for us to change the information. We have read the manual from cover to cover and scoured the boards, but never found anyone who could tell us how to do it. Our Vista now has the correct owners information! Garmin has all of the owners' manuals on-line. I downloaded the manual for my legend before I bought it. How's that for anticipation? Quote Link to comment
+MaxEntropy Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I was playing with my Garmin eTrex Vista today and discovered what appears to be an undocumented feature. From the main menu page, if you bump the clik stick once to the left and press, you get a little window that says "Owner Information" click on that and you get a screen to fill in your name and address. There's a check box at the bottom that makes this info display at power-up. I could find no mention of this in the manual. Don't know if this is on other eTrex models but its worth a look. Sure beats programming your home coordinates and hoping someone can do a reverse lookup for your addy. Regards, BBFlatt Your manual was probably a revision behind your firmware. When I bought my legend, It didn't have that feature and it could ONLY store 500 waypoints. About 6 months later, I got a software upgrade that enabled the used screen and somehow found space for 1000 waypoints. Like I could survive with only 500 waypoints. That won't even get me 20 miles but that's another thread... Quote Link to comment
gm100guy Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 If you left the gps on then it knows where it is. Quote Link to comment
+GSVNoFixedAbode Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 ...then there's the war stories of those lost in action: Titanic Erratic Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 How well does she love you? Monday is a "Special Day"!! Could be she's sold the old one to get you a nice surprize? No luck today, huh? Me either! Drop-corded or otherwise. Well, there's always Father's Day!! Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I don't understand......... You haven't actually surgically implanted it in your palm yet?? Actually I have misplaced mine on numerous occasions and now I own 4 different ones. I hope I misplace them again when a newer sleeker model comes out......but it sure is getting harder to misplace ALL of them. Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 15, 2005 Author Share Posted February 15, 2005 I ordered a new one on Valentine's day with the wifes approval. I should get the new one Thursday (Oh, how I wanted to check the next day air shipping option!) and I can't wait. I got the Etrex Vista C this time. Now I hope my old one will magically appear. I never thought that I would grieve over a GPS! If I would have lost it down a hole at least I would know where it is. It is comforting to know that my lost GPS knows where it is! After trying a couple of caches without the GPS I will maybe be that much better. Ok, maybe not. Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Just curious, did you read the next log for the last cache that you found with your GPSr? John Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 15, 2005 Author Share Posted February 15, 2005 Just curious, did you read the next log for the last cache that you found with your GPSr? The last thing I was doing with it in the field was getting coords for a new cache I am setting up. I brought it home to type in the coords and from there....POOF! I have no idea where it went, but I know I had it here because I have the coords. Quote Link to comment
+Camo-crazed Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I have had a chuckle when I see GPS units with camo covers Why!? Where?!! one can not live without caching. unless you're a muggle Check your caching bag very carfully, I lost mine for two weeks and then found it in my caching bag that I had been using the whole time, (My caching buddy used the waypoints on his GPS during that time) It turned up on the top of everything too! Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Check your caching bag very carfully, I lost mine for two weeks and then found it in my caching bag that I had been using the whole time, (My caching buddy used the waypoints on his GPS during that time) It turned up on the top of everything too! I have turned the house upside down, mrs. zcubed has as well. I have looked even in the most ridiculous places, freezer, under the kitchen sink, etc. Nada, Zero, nothing. Quote Link to comment
+psychoraven102 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 I Don't Know what I would Do without my GPS... I Also have 2 Just incase!!! haha. I would absolutly Die, I use it at least once a day even when there aren't any caches. One day it wouldn't pick up satelittes and I looked online for a new one, haha. Now I just ordered the 60CS and I'm so excited to add it into the pile with the Rino110 and the handspring Quote Link to comment
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