After much thought, I finally sprung for a GPS unit. Shannon's postings pushed me over the ledge. I got a sweet deal for a used Garmin GPSMAP 76S on e-bay. I mostly plan on using it for geocaching and some hiking. I was surprised to find on geocashing.com is a cashe hidden in the park out my back door. I manually entered the coordinates from the website into the GPS. Inside of being a stone's throw away, the cache was showing to be hidden somewhere between Ennis and Rosser, TX, some 53 miles away.
I entered several other coordinates for my neighborhood and they all showed up in the same area out in the sticks. My starting point pretty much is dead center of where I live, it is just the way points I enter are off. I've calebrated the compass, did a new location set up, and updated the time zone. Still I'm clueless.
The manual is not much help. There is not a trouble shooting section. Could it be the way I enter the way points?
Way points at geocaching.com look like this;
N 32° 47.436 W 096° 46.983
Way points on the GPSMAP 76S look like;
N 32.47436o
W096.46983o
Does the decimal point or where the degree symbol is located make any difference? Any help would be much appreciated.
Motorman355