| Author |
Message |
ThePeanuts |
|
Post subject: What should I get?
 Posted: Dec 31, 2009 - 05:03 PM
|
|
super stasher
Joined: Jul 07, 2006
Posts: 764
Location: Macungie, PA
Status: Offline
|
|
| I am considering a new GPS unit and I want opinions. I won't mention parameters, other than the fact that I currently have an iPhone and a Magellan eXplorist 500 that is having some issues. Ready?? Go... |
_________________
I have the pencil; I WANT the shirt !!
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
GRozecki |
|
|
Post subject: RE: What should I get?
Posted: Dec 31, 2009 - 07:31 PM
|
|
navicacher
Joined: Feb 10, 2009
Posts: 183
Location: Conshy
Status: Offline
|
|
Oregon 550
I love it |
_________________
Caching Name - Spatial Distortion
"The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life."
- Frank Zappa
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
CardinalRed |
|
|
Post subject: Re: What should I get?
Posted: Jan 01, 2010 - 12:49 AM
|
|
geocacher
Joined: Jun 28, 2005
Posts: 359
Location: Berks County (Mohnton)
Status: Offline
|
|
|
ThePeanuts wrote:
I am considering a new GPS unit and I want opinions. I won't mention parameters, other than the fact that I currently have an iPhone and a Magellan eXplorist 500 that is having some issues. Ready?? Go...
Yet another Maggie bites the dust for you? I hope you have finally learned that lesson. I have never owned anything but a Garmin. The new paperless Garmins or a Delorme sound promising, but I wouldn't get rid of all my CS Garmins yet.
Need to borrow a Garmin CS again while you make up your mind? |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
ThePeanuts |
|
|
Post subject: Re: What should I get?
Posted: Jan 01, 2010 - 03:58 PM
|
|
super stasher
Joined: Jul 07, 2006
Posts: 764
Location: Macungie, PA
Status: Offline
|
|
|
CardinalRed wrote:
Need to borrow a Garmin CS again while you make up your mind?
Uh...NO Glenn, I do not need to borrow your 60csx or whatever it was that had me walking around in circles when I used it! Mine still works fine, it's an issue with the power cable connecting to the back. I am not adverse to Garmin; Ido have a Nuvi! |
_________________
I have the pencil; I WANT the shirt !!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Kin9sPanK |
|
|
Post subject: RE: Re: What should I get?
Posted: Jan 02, 2010 - 05:06 PM
|
|
Official SEPAG Prognosticator
Joined: Nov 24, 2004
Posts: 2090
Location: Lionville, PA
Status: Offline
|
|
Garmin Oregon 550 and Dakota series have tri-axial electronic compasses. This means that you do not have to hold the unit steady and level to have the compass work correctly. The Colorado/Oregon 400 and earlier have dual-axial electronic compasses and will display the hold level verbiage to the point of annoyance. The 550 also has a camera - 1Mpixal model - which is perfectly fine for posting to the web site.
What Garmin needs to do is to put in real 801.11g WiFi instead of their proprietary bluetooth like crap. They also have to lift the 8M limitation on Geocaching GPX files.
The Colorado/Oregons have a nasty habit of ignoring Groundspeak gpx files over 8M and leaving one in the field without any geocaching listings. I have been burnt by this lame limitation on more than one occasion.
The Colorado/Oregon/Dakotas do not have any file managers, so there is no way to correct the above loss of all geocaches problem in the field - the first time was at GeoWoodstock7 in Tennessee. It really SUCKS to rely on others to get the coordinates that were correctly downloaded to the unit - only to have the file silently rejected for a bullshit firmware limitation. 
Until Garmin gets off their butts and gets these issues corrected, I would seriously consider a DeLorme P-40 as my next GPS. And Joseph, your lame ass 60csx suffers the same afflictions mentioned above and then some. The 60csx is just a fat dumb and happy cash cow to the folks at Olathe, just like the people who use them.   |
_________________
Kin9sPanK
I was only trying to save you from further embarassment
- but you seem to be valiantly resisting those attempts.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
ajkormann |
|
|
Post subject: Re: RE: Re: What should I get?
Posted: Jan 04, 2010 - 12:16 AM
|
|
super stasher
Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 1465
Location: West Chester, PA
Status: Offline
|
|
|
Kin9sPanK wrote:
files over 8M
8M of GPX files? That's being overly optimistic.
Kin9sPanK wrote:
And Joseph, your lame ass 60csx suffers the same afflictions mentioned above and then some.
Then how come on one cache we both wound up at a different location than we thought. And my GPS was usually 'on target' and yours was pointing "way over there, no .. over there.." at some other caches? Magnetic drift? |
_________________
Super Muggle
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
MuddyPawPrints |
|
|
Post subject: Re: RE: Re: What should I get?
Posted: Jan 06, 2010 - 08:48 AM
|
|
geocacher
Joined: Nov 27, 2006
Posts: 400
Location: Amish Land, PA
Status: Offline
|
|
|
Kin9sPanK wrote:
Ummm.... Did you just call me a dumb fat cow?   |
_________________
Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown
Heather, Tom, Maddie and Lucy aka Team MuddyPawPrints
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
ajkormann |
|
|
Post subject: Re: RE: Re: What should I get?
Posted: Jan 06, 2010 - 11:00 AM
|
|
super stasher
Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 1465
Location: West Chester, PA
Status: Offline
|
|
|
MuddyPawPrints wrote:
Kin9sPanK wrote:
Ummm.... Did you just call me a dumb fat cow?
Just your 60csx. He still thinks you're a wonderful person. |
_________________
Super Muggle
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Kin9sPanK |
|
|
Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: What should I get?
Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 11:41 PM
|
|
Official SEPAG Prognosticator
Joined: Nov 24, 2004
Posts: 2090
Location: Lionville, PA
Status: Offline
|
|
Technically a Cash Cow is not considered fat, but it typically has three feet in the grave.
I still love the Muddys!!
I hope to see you all at Beavers Victory Party on 27-Jan-2010. |
_________________
Kin9sPanK
I was only trying to save you from further embarassment
- but you seem to be valiantly resisting those attempts.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
