Sara, I think there's some confusion between the zoom factor and accuracy. The Yellow etrex will only zoom in to 200 feet while the Legend and Vista will zoom to 20 feet. The difference is because of the screen resolution between the 2 screens. Think of the old CGA monitors that ran at 320x240 and the newer ones that support 1024x768 and higher. When you zoom in with a 320x240, it becomes blocky and unreadable. The 11 feet he's talking about is the accuracy based on the satellites, which is normally 18-25 feet. Both units will give the same accuracy. If you use the pointer in the compass mode to hunt for the caches, the zoom factor won't make any difference. Rich (RGS) ----- Original Message ----- From: Sara Carter To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Users of the Yellow Etrex Am I losing my mind? Nevermind that would require having one to begin with. But seriously though. I have an etrex vista that I use and thanks to Glenn today it's definitely more user friendly than it was before. I also have a yellow etrex that I used to play around with before I ever got into geocaching at all (like to mark the boat ramps and favorite spots when we fished and stuff). I haven't touched the yellow etrex in quite some time as I gave it to my husband after he bought my vista for me as a gift. I took it out to the 101 today so that my friend that went with me had a GPS to use. While out on the trail we couldn't get it to zoom in past 200 ft and I thought I remembers gettting in much closer than that. I asked my husband before he left for work and he says that the night he played with it in his ambulance he had it zoomed in to 11 feet or something he thought (it would be possible he's thinking of the vista as he took it one night too). So my question is does the regular etrex soom i n past the 200 ft setting? If would think it would be kinda difficult to cache with but i've herad of a bunch of people that use them. Sara