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coach steve · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Hurricane

I have owned 3 GPS units--one Magellen and 2 Garmins, but I have sold or traded them all for a Garmin 60CSx. It will hold signal when everything else fails. It will lock up satellites in my basement and hold signal in slot canyons and deep tree cover. I just bought my son a unit for $325 with a $50 rebate. If you are going to get into geocaching in a big way, the Geocaching features are hard to beat. One of the best features is the "Find Next" that will give you the next closest cache with just one click. Until something else comes along that will do it better, this is the unit I would recommend.

In the great discussion between Garmin and Magellen, it all boils down to which unit you start with and which makes you the most comfortable. As the Romans used to say, "De gustabus non est disputnadum" or in other words, "There's no arguing abuot taste".

DiscGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 3692 Location: Orem, Utah

I keep hearing great things about the 60csx. RedMan knows a lot about GPS units and he couldn't' recommend it enough. I love my Rino 530, but I really am curious about the 60csx.

LibertyN8 · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 17 Location: American Fork, Utah

I am using a Garmin Vista CSx, It has the same Geocaching features as the 60CSx, I have it loaded up with Topo's and I import 300+ Caches to it at a time! It may not hold a signal as well as the 60, not sure. I used to use Magellan but I had trouble with the exploist 600 and ended up taking it back to the store. The Vista CS is A good unit If you do not want to spend the money for the 60cs....N8

Mtnman1830 · Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 1279

Time for me to upgrade from my Garmin eTrex Vista to the Garmin 60CSx. I am excited to go and get it

DiscGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 3692 Location: Orem, Utah

Is it true that the 60csx has a different antenna then the 60cs? I heard the csx gets reception in slot canyons and is just all around better. I thought the only difference was the external memory?

imfrog2002 · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 7 Location: SLC, UT

I have a Garmin eTrex Legend. Pretty simple GPS, but it does great for hiking and geocaching, so I'm happy. :)

davis_b_1 · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 1406 Location: On www.bogley.com

I just bought an Etrex Vista CX this seams to be a nice unit I really Like it so far

DiscGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 3692 Location: Orem, Utah

I have the Rino 530. It has the "find next" feature and I love the national weather broadcast, and the radio location feature, but I keep hearing all these great things about the 60csx.

I can sell my Rino right now and trade it straight across for a new 60csx but I just can't decide what to do.

LibertyN8 · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 17 Location: American Fork, Utah

DiscGolfDivers wrote: I have the Rino 530. It has the "find next" feature and I love the national weather broadcast, and the radio location feature, but I keep hearing all these great things about the 60csx.

I can sell my Rino right now and trade it straight across for a new 60csx but I just can't decide what to do.

I had some trouble with my Etrex Vista Cx over the weekend....:( when I plugged in the cig adapter it locked up! I could not even turn it off without pulling the batterys, so I bought a ne adapter, it did the same thing. I deleted all my stuff off and plugged it into the PC to update and....damn locked up again. Garmin tech support sent me a email telling me how to reset the GPS and it didn't help so I said the hell with it, Took it back to Cabelas. I had the unit over 6 months, no box, no receipt....no problem they gave me in-store credit and I laid down a couple hundred more and walked out with a 60CSX!!!!

It got a satellite lock instantly when i turned it on in my HOUSE!!! Garmin has this new technology called "SiRF", It's a high sensitive receiver that is available in 2 of there units only. The GPSMAP 60CSx and the GPS 76CSx. With Garmin units the letters stand for C=Color, S=SiRF, X=expandable memory. I am pretty excited to get out and put this baby to work and I would recommend buying from Cabelas because they will take items back. Kinda nice when the GPS cost $450 and you want to take it up a mountain! Later N8

DiscGo · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 3692 Location: Orem, Utah

Let me know right away what you think of the 60csx. My brother has the 76cs and I know that I don't want that (he does not have csx but cs). His antenna is so bad that he has to have an external antenna added to get a signal. The nice thing about the 76cs is that it floats but I would much rather have the 60csx. I'm so dang jealous of you!

AD0OR · Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Utah County

I started with the Etrex, then had the Etrex Ledgend, and for the past 4 years ish I've had the etrex Vista, its been awesome for me.

sportsman · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:28 am Post subject:

i have a garmin gps III I got back in 2001 when i started...I am old school, lol

BruteForce · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:32 am Post subject:

I'm still using my eTrex Legend. Takes a massive beating and keeps working.

I lost it at a cache hide in the 5Mile area for 2 days.. Got snowed on, wind-blown. When found, it was still powered on and functional! :hail2thechief:

Considering its usually attached to my quad, it continues to function just as I need it to.

theking648 · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260 Location: southern utah.

i've had my magellan Triton 400 for a few weeks now. and works perfectly. i haven't had one problem dispite all the horror stories.

it's color, water resistaint, and has SD card.

got it from newegg for $185 with shipping.

i've taken it on two road trips and a few geocaches and worked perfectly. like it should.

Mooseman70 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

I have a Garmin eTrex Legend C. :2thumbs:

My only gripe with it has been the rubber gasket around the exterior edges coming lose after about 18 months of use. Heat seems to make the problem worse.

Other than that, it's an excellent GPS and I've been quite pleased with its performance.