Geocachers of the Rochester Area

[Novac]

Before I got a smartphone I swore I'd use the "official" app if it was available, even at $10. Now that' I've gotten an EVO 4G and am using GeoBeagle (for free), there's little chance of that happening. I already give them $30/year, that's enough for me.
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[Novac]

Also, last week I downloaded the WhereYouGo app. I downloaded Whack a Lackey but haven't tried it yet. There are no other Wherigos located near me to test out yet. Has anyone tried it? With success?
You can download it with this image (click the link).
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[mpyusko]

I went to LL Bean tonight with the wife and spent a half hour playing with a PN-40 and I must say I'm not as impressed as I thought I'd be. The demo model spent the entire half hour searching but never locked on a single Sat. I pulled out my Eris and locked on 11 Sats in under 30 seconds with 19' accuracy. I switched to map view and it was pretty darn near close to where I was standing. The sales lady was like "well that makes this...." and motions throwing the PN-40 over her shoulder. But then I pointed out that the PN-40 is ruggedized, waterproof, and battery on battery power. I wouldn't want to take my Droid through a swamp to find a geocache. They had a PN-60, but I didn't try it. She was also a geocacher, with a Driod.... So much for the Vista HCx.
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"You can follow me, but it's gonna hurt."

[the Mack4]

My PN-40 has been a solid unit. It was meant to be a backup to my 60CSx, but quickly replaced it due to excellent topos and paperless caching. It takes a few seconds longer to initially lock on satellites than my old unit did, but is very quick to acquire them if it is turned off for short period of time through the rest of the day.

I've taken it out in all kinds of weather over the last 8 months and been pleased with its durability and ease of use. I had no problems controlling it with thick gloves on during a driving snowstorm.

My only gripe is it eats a pair of batteries in a day of caching vs my old unit making it through the weekend on a single set. For what I get in return though, I just keep my battery charger handy.

I've tried caching with my smartphone, but prefer the piece of mind in knowing that dropping the PN-40 isn't going to result in an expensive trip to the cell phone store.

[mpyusko]

[Novac]

...but the Vista HCx is a stylish grey
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[mpyusko]

I used my Droid Eris for caching today.

The email came through on my phone. I clicked the link and selected to open it in c:geo. I red the cache page and used c:geo to start turn-by-turn navigation to get near the cache site. Once I was parked c:geo displayed me in relationship to the cache and tracked me as I moved closer. Once I was too close c:geo was switched to radar mode and brought me to gz. I searched with Striving For Camelot for a few minutes and made second to find, behind him... Grrrrrrrr.

Awesome accuracy and reliability. My legend and GPS80 couldn't get a solid lock under the trees.
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"You can follow me, but it's gonna hurt."

[Sabrefan7]

c:geo works great the radar mode is pretty cool I like to use it if I need to read the cache page again or look a the hint. I have logged my own cache with it (and deleated it right after) to see how that works , to bad its banned like asbestos
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