[GeoStL] Re: Garmin Legend HCx
- From: "Jon Mertz" <jemertz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:40:03 -0500
Remember, direction and speed of travel are not "current" but "average" over
the last (hopefully short) period of time. Until you reach that speed, the
system does not have enough points to make a reliable average in order to
calculate speed or distance.
-Jon
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Bob TheCacher <cachefinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I recently purchased a Garmin Legend HCx and took it with me to Cliff Cave
> park last weekend. Although the unit captures satellite signals pretty
> good, the red pointer does not point to the direction of the cache (or any
> other destination) until you are traveling 2-2.5 miles per hour. I'm not
> very good in running to the cache sites. After 2-2.5mph the pointer becomes
> active and so does the digital speedometer. Up until that speed you can't
> trust the pointer.
>
> Is there a setting to activate the pointer at slower speeds? And why
> doesn't the speedometer work until the 2-2.5mph speed is reached? Any tech
> advise would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Bob Pratt, BBD1
>
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