I have to say the Garmin 60CSX is the most accurate unit I've seen under all conditions and I have a Magellan meridian and a explorist 210. With that new Cirf chip it seems to get you to ground zero quicker . The explorist 210 has the most bang for the buck,You really don't need a PDA because it displays type of container,full name,terrain,difficulty,date last found and the full hint. On 11/13/06, Brian Casteel wrote: > > > > > I don't recall having problems like that in most cases. In fact, often > times while sitting on my butt writing my cache log, I'll look over to the > GPS and watch it flirt with 0' on a regular basis. If it happens to get no > closer than 5' on a cache, I'd consider that quite excellent overall. > Magellan has advantages over Garmin and likewise Garmin over Magellan. The > most obvious between the 2 is the abundance of mapping software options > Garmin has available to the very limited Magellan options. Of course, with > the newer gen Garmin units, satellite acquisition is much better with the > new SeRF chip. > > > > Brian > > Team A.I. > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com > [mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On > Behalf Of Cordell Harris > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:06 AM > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Am I missing something - Magellen 200s > > > > > OK Scott. Did I fail to mention that we have had the opportunity to compare > the performance of (7) seven Magellan and Garmins against each other while > doing something like 500 plus caches all over the US. In my original > missive a forgot about the emap unit. The units we used are the Garmin > Emap, 76CS, Etrex Legend, Etrex Legend Vista Cx. The 3 Magellans were all > Sportrack Pros. We seem to keep dropping them! Maybe I should also note > that none of the units failed operationally. Of all the Garmins the Etrex > Legend is the best, e.g. sensititivy and accuracy. All the others have/had > serious errors of 7 to 10 ft on the high resolution scale. These errors are > consistent with caches that were placed by careful knowledgeable cachers. > We have also had opportunity to compare waypoints established scientifically > by standards. The 3 Magellan Sportrack Pros were all perfect replicas and > were dead on. I am not hostile toward Garmin, but cannot ignore results. > Both mapsource and mapsend topos (I have both) will allow exchange of > waypoints but not maps. What I would like to be able to do is use Delorme > topo maps (superior) in either or both brands of receivers with Garmin > waypoint symbols. My backhand at Garmin is simply because they are the > industry leaders in terms of sales and promotions and for now get to set the > trend. Magellan Sportrack Pros are a great deal and very adequate for > geocaching. I repeat my offer to trade the etrex legend vista Cx for a > eXplorist 500. There is nothing wrong with the vista Cx except the offset > mentioned above. > > > On 11/13/06, Roping The Wind wrote: > > > >From: "Cordell Harris" > > >Magellan has better, more user friendly receivers that are more sensitive > >and accurate. If >unconvinced, try caching with the owner of a Magellan > >Sportrack Pro. Presently, we own two >Garmins a etrex legend and an etrex > >legend vista cx. > > The etrex line uses a patch antenna, which IMHO, is crap. Upgrade to the > new > 60CSX and you will probably never see anything more accurate. I do not > beleive that you can compare two GPS units for accuracy on a single > geocache > or any geocache for that matter. The cache owner's coordinates could be off > for one. Also, both your GPS units will give slightly different readings on > where the cache is supposed to be. To find true accuracy, take a waypoint > and mark it with your GPS. Of course, with any GPS, you have to leave it > there for a few minutes for a most accurate reading (too many inexperienced > cachers hide a cache, hit mark on their GPS and leave and dont allow the > GPS > to average location). Now, walk away a few hundred feet or more and then > come back to ground zero and see where your GPS takes you. Do this with two > units that you want to compare and see which one is most accurate. > > Of course, as Loran said, all GPS's these days are decently accurate. They > will all take you to a waypoint and get you within 30 feet or less. Do the > example above once and you will find that both GPS's did their job well > enough. If you want to find truly which unit is better, with there still > being slight errors in GPS's, you will still need to do the example above > several times to average your results out to truly see which unit is > better. > Seems nit picky. Well it is... as I just said, all GPS's are accurate > enough. Still, if you want a GPS for just geocaching or marking waypoints, > then a patch antenna Etrex or a Magellan GPS Blazer 12 (now that is > ancient! > and I have one too) is all you need. If you want to mark a little hole in > the ground that an ant just went in to and then come back a week later to > find it... then you need to spend the bigger dollars for a unit with a 12 > channel SiRFstar III high-sensitivity (WAAS-enabled) chip and built-in quad > helix antenna, with external antenna connection (like the Garmin 60csX). > Either units will get you to a geocache or any point for that matter. But > the latter technology will, on average, get you to a specific point more > consistantly. > > >Garmins are overpriced/overrated and as industry leaders don't like the > >strangle hold they maintain >on proprietary mapping software. We badly > >need mapping software that will function universally in >handhelds. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but doesnt Magellan also use proprietary mapping > software? (Mapsend). I could be wrong on this, but I beleive both Magellan > and Garmin have their own specific mapping software that must be used for > mapping. I think both brands will accept some other mapping software, but > only for uploading and transfering of waypoints, tracks, etc and not maps. > If you want maps in your unit, you have to use their own mapping software > (Mapsend or Mapsource). > > Scott > Team Ropingthewind > > _________________________________________________________________ > Try the next generation of search with Windows Live Search today! > http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > > DISCLAIMER: This message is confidential, intended only for the named > recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from > disclosure under applicable law. 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