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My 12yr old son has started to Geocache and has been using a combination of phone & car sat nav with mixed results.  The roadside caches are fine but once in forest the sat nav does not have enough detail and he is getting frustrated!

Can anyone recommend a hand held sat nav capable with forests, off road etc at a resonable price.  My good friend has just bought one at about £250 which is FAR more than I planned to spend, even half that amount makes my eyes water!!

Any suggestions?

Thanks Wendy

Quote: Originally posted by Surfin on 11/9/2010

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We use the Garmin eTrex H,its easy to use and is a very popular GPS.

Amazon have them for £66.

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Thanks for the suggestion I will have a look now, does it allow downloading information onto it at this price.  Have heard Matt mention this facility but knowing him that means we should be looking at top of the range sat navs lol!

Wendy

I use a Garmin Etrex H along with a serial cable and adaptor to connect to the PC to download waypoints. LINK the serial cable and adaptor were off eBay.

If you are a premium member on geocaching.com then you will also be able to download pocket queries this way.

More expensive units will include usb cables, maps etc.

The main disadvantage with the cheaper units is that they won't connect direct to the computer USB, you need an adaptor/extension. Also they don't have memory cards for putting more detailed maps on to help once off road.

I found my first 400 + caches using my Garmin Nuvi sat nav, it's brilliant as you can download PQs if you're a Premium Member which give you all the info from the cache page. I have a Legend now which has the Garmin Topo maps on, but they aren't that good for finding footpaths etc. I usually print off the Streetmap view from the cache page if I haven't got an OS map of the area.

You can get the OS maps to put on if the unit has enough memory, but it is expensive - think £300 odd.

I solely use my iphone for finding ours & up to now its been brilliant but our friend uses his nokia & that finds them just as good as ours.

I'll watch this thread though as i'd like to buy my 13 year old his own GPS thing but the price of them i've lloked at on geocaching.com is extortionate.  

Quote: Originally posted by K9Wendy on 12/9/2010

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Thanks for the suggestion I will have a look now, does it allow downloading information onto it at this price.  Have heard Matt mention this facility but knowing him that means we should be looking at top of the range sat navs lol!

Wendy

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I have the garmin etrex H, which I purchased last christmas from blacks and it doent allow downloads from a pc.

Everything has to be manually entered but it is very accurate and easy to use compaired with my dakota 20 that was £200 and can be used for paperless geocaching.

Quote: Originally posted by pullup on 28/9/2010

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I have the garmin etrex H, which I purchased last christmas from blacks and it doent allow downloads from a pc.

Everything has to be manually entered but it is very accurate and easy to use compaired with my dakota 20 that was £200 and can be used for paperless geocaching.

 

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