ChitownRC

I just picked up a Garmin for the car because I hate Mapquesting everything and found that I can use it to GeoCache hunt. Not a traditional coordinate display GPS but still works, I guess.

So, anybody else hunt and hide caches?

What's a 'geocache' ?

i use my topcon system

im waiting a few more months till they come out with the software and im turning my psp into a gps unit when im driving. Never heard of geocache. Care to elaborate?

Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

GPS hide&seek.

People leave a "hidden treasure" then post rough coordinates of where it's placed. You seek it out with your GPS and leave a note in the log book that's in with the hidden cache. Then post you found it on-line.

Kinda geeky, but at least it gets you off the computer and outside, once in a while.

Sounds pretty fun. Lol. "yeah we found this sweet treausre...then we bashed"

If you're out standing in a field looking for buried tupperware, why not burn some fuel afterwards!

Geo-RC-caching!

Pretty cool.

Michowski Wrote:im waiting a few more months till they come out with the software and im turning my psp into a gps unit when im driving. Never heard of geocache. Care to elaborate?

How do you do that? Do you know about how much it would cost cause i have an old psp that would be sweet to do that to.

DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 Wrote:Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

GPS hide&seek.

People leave a "hidden treasure" then post rough coordinates of where it's placed. You seek it out with your GPS and leave a note in the log book that's in with the hidden cache. Then post you found it on-line.

Kinda geeky, but at least it gets you off the computer and outside, once in a while.

Dave, thats funny you say that. Many years agao Waukegan had a huge group of people who would talk on CB's, I found this out because I purchased one and found all of them. Wer would all hang out on the weekends like a geek gang, lol. Actually alot of the peeps were really cool. But about a year after I started hanging around them I started a scavanger hunt using things around town like paper towel holders, and dealership frames, and my favorite Realestate signs and chevy emblems off cars. Well it got to the point that police were on our buts so we moved to another challenge called Fox Hunting. which you have a person who is the Fox and everyone drives around town trying to find them using the Foxes RF gain to locate them. We found ways of making signals bounce off building and attaching antennas to fences. But. Its just funny how technology changes but it is still the same game.

I have to say that after using this windshield mount Nav system that set me back all of $300, I can't see why new car dealerships get $2000 for one in the dash that does the same function and is less line-of-sight friendly.

DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 Wrote:I have to say that after using this windshield mount Nav system that set me back all of $300, I can't see why new car dealerships get $2000 for one in the dash that does the same function and is less line-of-sight friendly.

In all honesty, I think my $160.00 no name GPS is 10x better than any other gps's I've used. My moms old envoy had a built in from the factory one that I thoroughly hated, same thing with the new nav in her new bmw. Also, my dads yukon has a pioneer touchscreen dvd unit he installed that takes way too long to use. My cheapy has worked the best of them all for a tiny fraction of the price

motoxer4life Wrote:How do you do that? Do you know about how much it would cost cause i have an old psp that would be sweet to do that to.

Right now you can get the gps antenna for 50 bucks roughly off ebay. There imports from japan but an antenna is an antenna. Its the software you will need on your psp that will make it into a gps. I think they were saying quarter 3 thats comming at and thats end of summer time.

It is pretty interesting when you get looking into it, that some cells phones, PDA's, and almost all computers, can be made into GPS recievers by adding an antenna and the software. I mean, you already have the display, just add the maps and antenna, good to go, right?

I want a automobile Nav intergated with a radar detector so I only have to plug in and hang one unit on the windshield.

I don't know how I missed this thread, but I do. I got a GPS for my high school graduation a few years ago and usually go geocaching whenever I go camping. Always a good time.

My new celly!