k5koy
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Post by k5koy on Jun 9, 2004 7:59:38 GMT -5
Man, the board sure has been quiet lately. So I thought I would poke the proverbial hornets nest, see if I could stir up some activity.
I just upgraded to premium membership on geocaching.com, and would like to take advantage of the features. I have a Toshiba pocket PC and a etrex legend(Which totally ROCKS incidently! ;D ) and now I need some advice as to which available programs will best utilize my PDA's resources, which are most user friendly and easy to use, and that will be the least traumatic on my financial situation. In other words, what will be my best overall bet for downloading caches to my pda, and waypoints to my gps? Or is it even worth messing with?
Ok, thats it, let the solutions fly!
Koy-K5KOY
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Post by BigJon on Jun 9, 2004 21:00:14 GMT -5
I would recommend paperless to anyone. I use a Dell PDA, it makes life so much easier and being able to load many spins to it make it that much better. I use GPX Spinner to spin my Pocket Query down. I then name the cache file and place it on my PDA, then load the WPTs into my GPS and I am ready to rock. I use ExperGPS, fun little toy and easy to use. It cost money to get the program, but I can't remember how much off hand.
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Post by charizard on Jun 10, 2004 14:31:49 GMT -5
Well I'm baaaacccckkk -- been in Missouri -- and alls I have to say is "huh"? ;D
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k5koy
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Post by k5koy on Jun 10, 2004 18:18:17 GMT -5
Well, welcome back....What part did you not get?
Koy-K5KOY
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Post by charizard on Jun 13, 2004 16:39:30 GMT -5
;D right after BigJon started talking about spins and such ... I don't trust those beasties anymore....just lost all my information off of my PDA  |
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k5koy
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Post by k5koy on Jun 13, 2004 17:45:49 GMT -5
;D right after BigJon started talking about spins and such ... I don't trust those beasties anymore....just lost all my information off of my PDA  Well, I cant make heads nor tails of this, and dont even know what it means, but I am using gpx sonar now and it seems to be pretty good. K5KOY |
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Post by BigJon on Jun 13, 2004 21:27:33 GMT -5
Hehe. I use GPXSpinner. Basicaly it "Spins" your pocket query down into 2 things. One your coordinates and two your cache pages. I open my coordinates and place them on the GPSr and the cache pages are placed in a folder. I drag the folder to my PDA and bang, I have the pages on my PDA and the coords on my GPSr, and then I am out the door. Hope this helps, sorry for the confusion.  |
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Post by charizard on Jun 16, 2004 16:19:06 GMT -5
hee, hee, hee......OH - hey it isn't you're fault I'm PDA challenged! ;D
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Post by charizard on Jul 8, 2004 12:13:22 GMT -5
Bigjon -- what PDA do you have?
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Post by Tumbleweed45 on Jul 11, 2004 12:30:27 GMT -5
I bumped into some cachers from Austin the other day (moosiegirl, mrs captain picard, treyb, and outlaw. One of them had a Dell pda with a program called Geocaching Swiss Army Knife available from the website. That's all I know about that only I thought I was pretty uptown with my laptop & Magellans mapsend topo on it but they blew me away with their stuff. Regards, Tumbleweed45
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Post by charizard on Jul 11, 2004 14:30:37 GMT -5
Yeps they were pretty equipped, weren't they! I guess until I research a little more, I'll stick with paper and the gps ... I'm leaning towards a Dell PDA however.
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Well, I cant make heads nor tails of this, and dont even know what it means, but I am using gpx sonar now and it seems to be pretty good.
