Garmin GPS Replacement

Just a short post showing a replacement Garmin GPS unit. My trusty Yellow etrex Cx is on the left, etrex 30x is on the right. It had been quite awhile since I messed with the trusty yellow etrex. Pretty much, opened the battery compartment and found old batteries that started to erode the shiny silver battery terminals. Did the best to clean the terminals and installed new batteries.

The unit powered up fine, but the date was not correct and would not correct itself. The date was something like April 2000. Figured I could live with that. But the (cleaned) corroded battery terminals made the power source connection rather intermittent. That became rather bothersome. So I got the new one on the right. Works pretty well, boots up quick, acquires satellites quickly too. Loaded up some geocaches and hope to take it geocaching soon.

Sure a cell phone with the geocaching app will also work. Having a rugged handheld gps unit is kind of nice to have around. Batteries last longer and if it is dropped it will still work. So, my trusty yellow one will go to ewaste, sorry to say. It got me out of a really bad jam once and I am thankful for that.