New to Oregon 750t - problems
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:06 am
Hello everyone
I am new to the Oregon 750t, but a long time (18 yrs) user of Magellan GPSr's, so I operate a GPSr - but this 750t has got me perplexed and I am hoping someone can guide me through the issues I have.
First of all I mainly use the GPSr for Geocaching and have it set up in Classic Mode - Geocaching.
1. Compass accuracy.
Every time I load new caches into the unit and sometimes just when I switch on the unit, the compass is up to 180° out and I have to re-calibrate it.
I thought I found the reason why it was constantly out, because I had the unit set to "routing by road" and I think the compass pointed to the next turning point instead of the final location. However after turning off "routing" it still is out - for instance just now I pressed "Go" for a cache that is 81 kms north of where I live and while sitting on our balcony with excellent reception, the compass showed north pointing due east and out to sea (we live in an apartment block on the top floor facing north and just 100 metres from the ocean.)
Is this a fault, or is there a way of stopping this issue from happening. In comparison to the Magellan GPSr's that I have used over the years, I rarely had to re-calibrate the compass.
2. Navigating to a created WPt.
While in Geocaching mode, I go to "Waypoints", select a recently created WPt - say where the car is parked; press "Go" and then the next screen that pops up is the Map showing a line to the WPt destination. However it does not show how far it is, because the top of the screen shows the details of the next nearest Geocache (small compass with direction; distance to the cache; and Diff/Terrain/Size information.) So I go to the compass screen hoping that it will show me the distance and count down as I progress, but the compass screen only points to the WPt destination and again without any distance shown, but shows the details of the next nearest cache.
So my question is do I have to change the "activity" from Geocaching to something else to navigate to a WPt?
I would be grateful for advice on these two issues.
Peter
I am new to the Oregon 750t, but a long time (18 yrs) user of Magellan GPSr's, so I operate a GPSr - but this 750t has got me perplexed and I am hoping someone can guide me through the issues I have.
First of all I mainly use the GPSr for Geocaching and have it set up in Classic Mode - Geocaching.
1. Compass accuracy.
Every time I load new caches into the unit and sometimes just when I switch on the unit, the compass is up to 180° out and I have to re-calibrate it.
I thought I found the reason why it was constantly out, because I had the unit set to "routing by road" and I think the compass pointed to the next turning point instead of the final location. However after turning off "routing" it still is out - for instance just now I pressed "Go" for a cache that is 81 kms north of where I live and while sitting on our balcony with excellent reception, the compass showed north pointing due east and out to sea (we live in an apartment block on the top floor facing north and just 100 metres from the ocean.)
Is this a fault, or is there a way of stopping this issue from happening. In comparison to the Magellan GPSr's that I have used over the years, I rarely had to re-calibrate the compass.
2. Navigating to a created WPt.
While in Geocaching mode, I go to "Waypoints", select a recently created WPt - say where the car is parked; press "Go" and then the next screen that pops up is the Map showing a line to the WPt destination. However it does not show how far it is, because the top of the screen shows the details of the next nearest Geocache (small compass with direction; distance to the cache; and Diff/Terrain/Size information.) So I go to the compass screen hoping that it will show me the distance and count down as I progress, but the compass screen only points to the WPt destination and again without any distance shown, but shows the details of the next nearest cache.
So my question is do I have to change the "activity" from Geocaching to something else to navigate to a WPt?
I would be grateful for advice on these two issues.
Peter