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Last year we were not to thrilled with the Americinn and the Super 8 has really bad reviews. We really liked the Clairemont, but that is getting torn down. I also know the owners of the Clairemont are taking over the Americinn but I dont know if they will have it rehabbed for the fall.
so what is the next decent/inexpensive hotel in the area?
Seems like you’ve managed to make a great event even better!
My wife would shoot me if I came home with another hobby.
The antenna I bought is called Clearstream. At the time it was $70- extra range and $35 for the medium range. I checked Amazon’s price and they have gone up, apparently due to the increased demand. But they do work. I even hung mine from the rafters in my attic and all the stations still register as strong.
When it was windy or storming, our analog and digital stations would drop out. I think this was mostly due to the signal reflection off of high power transmission lines to the west of our house. We changed to a digital antenna (its a 3×3 ft square), and got the correct positioning from antennaweb and the reception has been awesome. That is the good news, the bad news is I have a 6ft V antenna now collecting dust.
@Team Deejay wrote:
@LightningBugs Mum wrote:
@Team Deejay wrote:
You get your query from Geocaching.com, not from GSAK. Set up a pocket query on the site. The site will email it to you. Save the zip file they send you somewhere that you can find it. Run GSAK and File|load the file. Done. (Yes, it is that easy. The harder part is setting up the pocket query to do what you want.)
If you are a Premium Member of course.
True, but I am not aware of too many people using GSAK (or EasyGPS) without pocket queries. It is possible, of course, to download one cache at a time as .LOC files, and then use GSAK to load all the files at once. Its just that by the time you download 20-30 individual cache files (and print out the sheets), you will find that the time spent is worth much more than the Premium membership fee.
You can also download single GPX files (i.e. logs) too and load them into GSAK. I’ve down that just to pick up some files outside the bounds of a particular query. For a lot of them it would be time consuming, but it would work.
Took the plunge this week and loaded 2.85Beta on our Oregons. No problems at all and the battery meter is working.
Garmin also released 2.86Beta yesterday and the initial testers are saying that it does a much better job of locking on to WAAS and they feel the position accuracy has improved.
They are made of a heavy sheet metal. They also have a pretty good coating of paint on them to add to the challenge. Personally, I am welding challenged on anything thinner than .125 with my stick welder.
@thepharmgirl wrote:
It’s too confusing. I already downloaded the Cachemate this morning, before I found out it apparently doesn’t work with my PPC 2002. Well that’s terrific. The cachemate site has ZERO instructions for a stupid person like me who doesn’t intuitively know how to use their product. So now CacheMate is on my PPC 2002. I can’t register it for some reason (my codes don’t match), and I have no idea how to get my GPX files loaded into it. I give up. I hope the people at Cachemate are happy with my $10 donation. I read Jeremy’s post about the Cacheberry, and I tried to get the 30-day trial of that, but I couldn’t figure out how that worked either. 👿 I’ll go back to my 2-hour process of writing down all the cache information. Or maybe I will buy a Colorado or Oregon. 😀
I’d check out the used or refurbished Palms or PPCs on Ebay or Craigslist. You can get some pretty good deals for $25.00. I’m sure some technically brilliant person could help you pick one out. Or then again you spoil your self and get a Colorado or Oregon and have everything in one device.
Congrats again on your milestone, its fun to watch someone else that is active all year long. See you at 1400!
@hogrod wrote:
I seen there is a new BETA firmware available for the Oregon series. I’m not sure which model this is for, or if it’s a generic firmware that works for all. THis fixes a few issues that some of you might have came across.
Beta is 2.85 for the Oregon. Seems to have just been posted yesterday and the jury is still out as to what it fixes. 2.7 and 2.8 broke more stuff than they fixed. 2.6 to this point is the most stable update. If the white paper is correct, in 2.85 the big corrections are the battery meter and issues with tracks.
burrs and other plant type hitchikers
I am by no means an authority on this subject, but my wild guess would be cookies – either blocked or corrupt.
@AuntieNae wrote:
I am looking for updates on how well both the Oregon and Colorado models handle the really cold weather . …
We used ours this week too. The touchscreens (w/ Invisibleshields on them) work fine, even with gloves on.
The rechargeable batteries we use seem to be more affected by the low temps. I’m guessing they drained twice as fast.
We’re hoping to make the Janboree this weekend. If anyone wants to see them, we’d be happy to share what we know about them.
Oh yeah, the other cool thing is you can re-organize your icons (menu). I put all of the ones I use the most on my front screen.
@djwini wrote:
why are the oregon/colorado better than the 60 series?
The two biggest differences is the number of caches it can hold and it will hold the cache page – description, logs, and hints. True, you do have to navigate up and down the the menu tree, but I can get around it much faster than I did with my 76 or 60. The Oregon has a nice touch screen and the Colorado uses a wheel.
The two oddities are you have to stop navigating when you want to switch from road to field and you cannot delete a cache from the unit from the menu, you can only do it from a computer. Although I have not had much of a problem with the last one since we reload the cache file each time we go out anyways.
Our test for accuracy was to take the Oregons, the 60 and 76 out on the trail and compare them. All I can say about that, is when they were wrong, no two units agreed with each other, but were usually within 15 ft. Generally speaking all the units were within less than 10 ft of ground zero. About the only thing that did occur consistently is that Oregons lagged in updating by a second or so.
@Lostby7 wrote:
OK…does the 300 series Oregon beep when routing on road for turns? The 200 does not and frankly that just may be a good reason for me to return the unit. That is pretty darn important to me.
Also I drove off route and the unit did not correct me on the fly to get back on route…is there a setting I need to flick on or do these not have the ability to Recalculate automatically?
Can anyone help me on this?
Yes the 300 does beep twice, as you get near and when you should be making the turn. And yes the unit will recalculate the route if you miss a turn. If you check the wiki there are a couple of things make the 300 more desirable than the 200. I believe memory and speaker are the two big ones.
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