Im Offically hooked!

[Team Margaritaville]

So walking though the Sears Grand in Oshkosh today i spied a 500 dollar Sony Navu NV-U70 GPSR on clearance for 165 dollars.. So against my better judgment i just had to have it… I realize its not a garmin but i figured for 165 dollars i just couldn’t go wrong. It’s pretty neat!!! The voice prompts are fairly friendly but the recalculating of the route seems a bit flawed. O well thought I’d share my great find with you. Now i have to figure out if i can download Caches into this thing..

So it brings to this question how many GPSR do you have or have gone though caching?

[K0rpl]

GPSr’ What is that?!!! Do I need one to Geocache?

[bandits]

@K0rpl wrote:

GPSr’ What is that?!!! Do I need one to Geocache?

It would be helpful for the rest of us if you had one when you placed a new cache!!! Just kidding, Justin!!! 😛

May have to check into the unit, TM!

[djwini]

5
the first one was the yellow etrex. gave it to my son when we got the second one
garmin 60c
magellan 100 it didn’t have athe ability to upload coords
garmin 60c
garmin 60cx-latest and greatest

[RSplash40]

lesse

started with a Garmin Etrex Legend (affectionately known as “old blue”)

Then got the delorme gps with the delorme mapping software(lola).

Put old blue into semi-retirement and bought a 60csx(just 60).

thinking a smaller box like the sony would be better just for general traveling specially after our 3200 mile road trip with lola in the front seat the whole way.

[Frizz]

Two and 1/2 years ago after being introduced to caching by big brother kadfar, I bought on a whim a Magellan 200. Very limited, but I found about 300 caches with it. A year later, big brother kadfar gave me a Magellan Meridian Color, I bought mapping software, and found even more caches. After my car was broken into and the Meridian stolen, I bought my current unit, Magellan eXplorist 600 XL. I really like the huge display screen on the unit, and some of the advanced geocaching features, plus my mapping software worked with this unit.

[kbraband]

[Mathman]

@bandits wrote:

@K0rpl wrote:

GPSr’ What is that?!!! Do I need one to Geocache?

It would be helpful for the rest of us if you had one when you placed a new cache!!! Just kidding, Justin!!! 😛

May have to check into the unit, TM!

Look who’s calling the kettle black

I am not sure if the Bandits use a GPSr when they place their caches either Justin so don’t let them intimidate you. [:)]

[Team Deejay]

Just 2 for us. We found about 700 caches with our little yellow etrex before we upgraded to a 76Cx (at the time it was cheaper than the 60Cx on sale). We still have the etrex as a backup or for use as a training unit.

[RSplash40]

The guy who got me into all of this got his first setup prior to 1998(I’m foggy on the date), had a laptop and we were doing a weekend long multi-server upgrade when it showed up on friday. Well..guess who was distracted.

During the backups he went all around neenah with it, called me on the cell phone “Its saying I’m right where I am!” I think it was a big delorme serial unit.. back in January we were out in the appleton area and his new(er) laptop would not connect to it so he finally had to cave and get rid of it.

Thing was the size of my hand. No tinfoil antenna though.

[labrat_wr]

I’ve got three, all magellans. Started with the eXplorist 100 (which I passed over to Sagasu to get the ball rolling there), and picked up a eXplorist 200. I worked with that for a while and when I was able to get the eXplorist 210 with the Geocaching manager the 200 stayed with me as a backup. Worked a little with an eTrex but not too much.

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[3 Hawks]

Just a basic E-Trex Legend. No color and no auto-routing. I have mapping software, but I never loaded it. I just hold it on one hand and drive with the other. I’ve only hit one or two pedestrians using this technique and I’ve found just over 1,500 caches, so why change now. The black rubber ring around the unit has fallen off and the screen is all beat to heck but it still gets me close enough most of the time.

[Vegas Gamblers]

@3 Hawks wrote:

Just a basic E-Trex Legend. No color and no auto-routing. I have mapping software, but I never loaded it. I just hold it on one hand and drive with the other. I’ve only hit one or two pedestrians using this technique and I’ve found just over 1,500 caches, so why change now. The black rubber ring around the unit has fallen off and the screen is all beat to heck but it still gets me close enough most of the time.

So that was you, my lawyer will be calling. 😆

We started with an Etrex Legend C and now have upgraded to the 60Cx.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Started with the Yellow E-trex, 500 finds with that. Then I needed to upgrade so I picked up the 60csx.

[Jeremy]

@kbraband wrote:

Back when I started geocaching, we used a Garmin AM1. It was actually a modified tube-type AM radio receiver with a 4-ft-long piece of twisted aluminum foil attached to the antenna…

Ah, the good old days back when it took days to make a single cache find.

Actually, for a time your best bet was to use the old Russian GLONASS system. Step 1 was to get someone to smuggle a receiver out of Russia through an Eastern Bloc country… they usually could be had for $500 US and a case of vodka. Step 2 was to crack the encryption used on the signal (sort of like a puzzle cache, only tougher) which changed weekly. Step 3 was to strap the receiver to your back (it weighed 30 kg) and attach a really long cable which ran back to your car… you needed to keep your car running to provide power and hook a cable to the chassis to use as an antenna. You were now set to go find caches! Some of the difficulties included a constant need for conversion of coordinates from some weird Russian geodetic model to WGS 84, and frequent breakdowns due to the fact that the electronics were hand soldered by peasants in Siberia using rejected components made in China. You also didn’t want to use this rig in the rain…

Seriously, a couple weeks ago someone asked me if they could borrow a unit or two… I took a mini inventory and realized I have 8 GPSrs (and this does not include other units I technically own but on long-term “loan” to family members). A lot of these are units that most would be considered obsolete today… Garmin 45, Garmin 12, Garmin eMap (sorry Ken), Garmin GPS III, etc. although all have been used to find caches over the years.

Maybe we should start a GPS donation program… kind of like the cell phone donation programs. You’d send in your old GPS and we’d get it to some needy person… but who really needs a GPS? (Cachers who have fallen on hard times, struggling college students using it for some sort of research, kids/muggles who could use some help locating (and then destroying) caches in their neighborhood, etc.)

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