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Our caching ride is a Buick Lesabre that has 241,000 miles on it. Thats probably why we only go caching close to home anymore, though we did go caching in the U.P. of michigan a month ago and averaged 28MPG for the trip. It’s probably getting about time we get a new ride, though it’s nice not having a car payment!

P.S. This topic reminds me of the old locationless cache ” 100,000 Mile Rest Stop”. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=5cb2e927-4e8a-433c-9185-2922b644ceef

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I gave my brother a Wisconsin geocoin as a present, I placed it in a cache in madison with a goal to make its way toward where he lives. The lady who picked it up lives a few states away and caches all the time, yet she never placed the coin anywhere.
grand total that Wisconsin geocoin lasted one cache. after looking into who picked it up, I noticed a pattern of them picking up bugs and claiming to drop them, yet a few weeks later no one ever sees the coins in caches, so I’m pretty sure they are collecting them.

I have not have very good luck at all with travel bugs/coins, and probably wont ever buy anymore.

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@GOJeepers wrote:

Of course I could buy the topo and use it now, then still use it if I decide to upgrade in the future.

Thats what I would probably do. The problem with garmins pre-loaded topo chips is they only cover a region and cost almost as much as the whole US on dvd. Thats unlike the pre-programmed street maps “city navigator NT 2008” chips have the whole US on one micro SD card. Topo 2008 is the first update to Garmins topo software in at least 7years, if I’m not mistaken the old topo US 3.02 came out in 1999.

Mapsource is a pretty easy to use program, you can import/export tracks,routes,waypoints and more. If you have mapsource fully updated, it will read GPX/LOC files so you can use it to load your caches to your GPSr if needed(or just see caches on the map). You can have mapsource show you the nearest geocaches and it will open your browser to geocaching.com and show you all near by caches.

My legendC, 60CX, and vistaCX all came with garmin trip and waypoint manager CD, this is a stripped down version of mapsource so if you have used that its pretty much the same as their mapping products.

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@GOJeepers wrote:

I have a VistaC so will have to upload from the computer directly to the unit. Is the software easy to use? How long does the download take?

I like the topo maps because they are fully unlocked, so if I get a new gps unit in the future I can still use the same maps. Besides the terrain the topo maps show more of the streams and rivers which can be very helpful when caching, though sometimes the map can be off and show the cache on the wrong side of the water. 😉

The VistaC like my old LegendC only has 23.9mb of map storage, so you will only be able to hold about 1/3 of Wisconsin at a time. The new topo maps still use small map segments so you can really only choose what you need to have loaded. Transferring maps to the unit shouldn’t take more than 10mintues, if you had more storage it could take longer.

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Magellan has some info up on their website too.
https://www.magellangps.com/products/product.asp?segID=425

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@bandits wrote:

Thanks for the update, Hogrod!

I have heard that Apple is looking at throwing Intel chips in their new systems. Anyone have any updates or validity to this????

Apple is already using Intel chips

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@bandits wrote:

Hands down AMD.

Check out this article CNET

That article is from November 23, 2005, they are comparing a pentium D 820 and a athlon 64 X2 4200+….. both of which are not that great compared to newer chips. Also the new intel core2 duo E6420 or higher blow away all the current AMD chips.
I’ve been thinking about building a new PC to run windows Vista and have been researching all the new processors. The processors I am looking at now are the Intel Core 2 duo E6750 or E6850, they are very fast an not extremely expensive. I know Intel has a few more new chips coming(so does AMD) so I’ll probably hold out until these come out.

Here is a more current comparison:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3038

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@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

This is the opposite – an online log, but nothing in the cache’s physical logbook. I’m assuming what T&tB are calling a vailidity check is going out and looking at the logbook to see if anything is written there or not. If not, then they shouldn’t be getting a smiley.

We only sign the logbook sometimes, and keep track of our finds with our online logs. Most of the time I see what I can swap & if I had some cool experience I write it in my online log.
Logbooks get wet, lost, stolen, moldy & are not permanent, our online logs are.

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I work on PC’s every day, but have never used a mac. The only reason I can think of for not recommending a mac(or linux for that matter) is all those PC only software issues you will run into. Garmin has been slowly turning out new Mac software all the time lately, so things are getting better.

Mac POI loader(for loading custom Point of interest waypoints): http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3698

Mac Webupdater(for updating the GPS unit software): http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3699

Mac Communicator plugin(can send caches from Geocaching.com to GPS): http://developer.garmin.com/web-device/garmin-communicator-plugin/download-and-install-garmin-browser-plugin/

Installing garmin maps to GPSr with a mac(PC also needed): http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/08/chets-corner-mo.html

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@Jeremy wrote:

@hogrod wrote:

Here is a screenshot of the error in Opera….

Shot at 2007-07-26

Wow, Opera definitely gives a better error response than Firefox in this case.

It explains to you why it is giving the error (signed by an unknown certificate authority) and hints at the fix (need to change the certificate chain on the server). You almost don’t have to hire an overpaid consultant like me to figure out and fix the problem. 🙁

LOL ya I was amazed that opera error message was so similar to what you were saying the issue was, thats pretty much why I posted it.

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It worked fine for me in IE7 and safari 3.0.2 but I also got the error in firefox 2.0.0.5 and opera 9.22.

Here is a screenshot of the error in Opera….

Shot at 2007-07-26

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@Lostby7 wrote:

Odd the MSRP is the same for both…
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/compare.do?cID=145&compare=compare&compareProduct=327&compareProduct=8701

I believe what is happening is the same thing that happened when the Cx versions came out & replaced C model etrexes…. they sold both for awhile to get rid of old stock but will discontinue the CX which will be replaced by the HCX.
I see a few people on the GC.com forum have already got their HCX models, though most places are saying 18-24th of this month they will ship. I got a vistaCX a few months back as a backup to our 60cx, now I’m debating if I should replace it with an HCX model. guess I could always sell our VistaCX cheap.

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yes the legendCX will autoroute, just like my legendC and vistaCX. metroguide V5 should work fine, I have tried metroguide 6 & 7 without any issues.

The Snail, it sounds like you are just looking at a legendCX, you do know garmin just released the legendHCX right? it cost the same as the legendCX and has all the same features, but has a newer chipset that is suppose to be as good as the sirfIII chipset in the 60csx model.

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@K0rpl wrote:

I think the ads are slowing down the site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I use the adblock plus extension for firefox…. no more ads on any webpage.
you can find out more about adblock here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

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@cheezehead wrote:

Still no jeeps 🙁 . I guess I’ll have to wait till next year. 🙄 😕

A little heads up, the jeep I got will probably end up near hayward soon after july 16th. If mathman was for real thats two jeeps that will be near you. 🙂

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