Geocaching Australia

I was talking to an associate the other night in relation to GPS tracks used by a govt agency for handheld units i understand they use garmin 60 series, and they use mapinfo on their PC's, He told me that if i was to send a track from either my etrex legend or oregon 450 that the software was incomp...

So thanks to the ATO i have some spare cash for a new GPS at last, target is the Oregon 450, any sugestions on the best place to buy/deal offered etc ?

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It lives my legend returned to life today still getting a new one have decided on the oregon, just a little less of a hurry now

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Okay what is there for the ipod touch, i have found the geocache.com app but it seems to have mixed reviews, anybody have any opinions or suggestions on on software,

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yeah still in hobart, managed to kill my gps yesterday, got the fuzzy screen tried to fix it no it is not recieving any sat info at all, just checked the date unfortunatley i will be in the north that weekend

Okay so i am needing a new GPS, always had Garmin Etrex, Looking at getting either a Legend Hcx or an oregon ( exact model to be decided), 2 biggest must haves high sensitivity chipset (i got shown up by a friends yellow etrex on a SAR :? ) and mini sd for maps, any suggestions either way, have not ...

Okay so i have an etrex legend with the screen gone blank, I know the fix but at the moment do not have the time to do it, I also have an HP4150 pda and just ordered cable to join them together with (ciggie plug), Is there software either freeware or reasonably priced that will display just the curr...

Okay I have a etrex Legend I have had for several years lately the screen has started playing up, by playing up i mean the screen go's blank when its being used in the car, on foot and also on Quad bike, is this a common fault for etrex legends, should i ditch the old one and get a new one??

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Okay have to run some training for my SES unit in a couple of weeks, So I grabbed the Units two Etrex Legends to make sure they are running okay, Lo and behold one is not as i post it is telling me it is 2215 on the 7th of march 2007, I turned them on over an hour ago, they had a clear view of the s...

In the end it all comes down to personel choice, Example i went with an etrex legend, I did this for two reasons, first i liked the unit and had heard better things about garmin when it came to warrenty issues, secondly the SES unit i am involved with brought 5 or 6 etrex legends, so by getting the ...

I have come upon these many times whilst helping Mr Pigs Defective friends, when we are helping them we usually take a set of those extended pick up grips, work a treat but might look a little sus when out caching, the only time however that i have come across yellow containers are usually in emerge...

Having just read the other posts I took my Etrex legend outside and fired it up making sure that WAAS was enabled, an number of interesting things occured 1) started picking up satellites between 30 and 45 held a fairly good lock on 42 for a couple of minutes till i went inside, 2) an number of sate...