We spent a while getting a friends etrex set up for a Topaz, Nevada weekend ride. He found the buttons clumsy, and hard to understand in the RAM mount. The screen was wayyy too small for glancing at the screen while riding. He returned it the next day and is looking for a deal on a 76cx or 60 cx. Luckily the chip we bought and loaded for the extrex will be slipped into either one of these. Staring at the GPS is cool Bigger screen.. Thanks for digging up the link.. YZman , Nov 29, Im not real fond of the entire etrex series.
That little joystick thingy on the face is known to fail. That and as others have said they are not easy to use with gloves on. I have the older GPSV. Yes its a dinasour but for what I use it for dirtbike trailriding It still works great. News Feed Comments. Want to see how the Vista HCx compares to other units? Use this Garmin GPS comparison tool. Check out my Legend HCx review for a more detailed look at the eTrex interface. Order by 5 p. Central Time for same day shipment.
Comments Tom H says:. September 7, at pm. Rich Owings says:. September 8, at am. Vince Mercurio says:. February 4, at pm. Csx 60 vs Vista HCX Perhaps this is covered and I missed it, but I was wondering if there are any real performance differences between these units?
Also, as a newbie, I find that this site is by far the best information source. Thank you in advance for any guidance. Advantages of the Oregon But it does not. Well at least I do not know how it would. It can produce. Actually it makes one. It can hold the logged tracks for years on a big card. But it cannot show it's own. I consider this the biggest missing feature of this great device. Sooo often I came to the same place a year later and wanted to know how I drove in that town before.
But not possible. Thank you, great feedback, it sounds like the Triton is "almost" everything I want, except for the auto-routes. Triton and what goes along with it being a Magellan. About the Log thing, are you saying that it gives you all logs except the 5 most recent? That's strange, has to be a fixable bug as does marking found caches at some point. The electronic compass is something I have been wanting as I find myself walking back and forth at times trying to get better bearings and it annoys the kids big and little no end Why are you not considering the Delorme PN If I were considering going to a GPSr with next generation mapping, this is a serious contender.
The Colorados and Tritons have both had major problems, and I would not consider either at this time I returned a Triton, and I have heard of individuals returning 3 to 4 Colorados each person. I've decided to dip my toe into the waters rather than plunge whole hog for the Colorado and have ordered a Triton If I regret it, it will go back, and I'll post here.
If I like it, I'll post why. I'm with EScout. I am weighing replacing my beat-up no-longer-waterproof eXplorist with either an eXplorist or a PN About the logs comment by gpsblake, he is saying that the Triton does not display any of the previous logs. A pocket query typically has the last 5 logs from a cache, and that is where he is getting the 5 number from. The lack of autorouting on the Triton so far is also killing the deal for me. Good luck with the Triton hope it works out for you.
Keep your Ausu safe in the car! By the way, I purchased an Asus when they first came out, and was wondering if they've worked the bugs out of that unit??
Mine would lock up if I was using the GPS at walking speeds.. Mind you Windows Mobile 5 was also pretty new then so, am not sure if my problem was with the hardware or software lol. I'll experiment with the Triton for now, though I'm disappointed it won't let me see the Cache descriptions from geocaching. If you use a utility like SirfTech to manually turn off the Static Navigation not for the light hearted , then it works properly, though I find it a bit erratic. I've tried working with the Track Smoothing feature of the chip, but results are inconclusive.
Ideally it would be good if programmers of Geoscout, and others, directly addressed the Sirf settings to determine whether Static Navigation is on or off, set it off, and then do it's own "software smoothing" in order to help calm down the "wander" of the position reports. Edit: You must also be a premium member of geocaching. Don't confuse the compass that points to magnetic North, with the compass that points to the cache. They are two different things.
Most times you don't really need a magnetic compass or the electronic variety in the GPSr. Garmin has the much better customer support, and Grounspeak cache information is geared to Garmin. Get the least expensive Garmin GPSr with a coloured screen. Get a cheap Palm handheld from ebay. Or, save up and get a Colorado.
In the meantime, get a cheap Garmin, and a clip-board to hold cache print-outs, forgetting paperless till you get the Colorado. I started out using Magellan GPSr's at work over a decade ago and started out using them when I found geocaching. When I heard about the Triton, I jumped on it and purchased a Now keep in mind, I am very Magellan interface savvy and have had a lot of experience with them at work and caching.
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