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Magellan eXplorist GC Waterproof Geocaching GPS

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Technical Details

  • Easily connect to the Geocaching.com User Community and perform "Send to GPS," create and sync Pocket Queries, and upload Field Notes
  • Pre-loaded with the most popular geocaches in the world, found more than any others--get a complete out-of-the-box experience by searching and finding the top 1,000 geocaches worldwide
  • Easy to use with an intuitive user interface, simple controls and menus, and vibrant graphics
  • Vibrant 2.2-inch color transflective screen provides the best readability in direct sunlight
  • A high-sensitivity SiRFstarIII GPS with three-meter accuracy puts you on top of the cache and make the find that much easier
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Product Details

  • Item Weight: 1 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
  • ASIN: B003CYKYVQ
  • Item model number: eXplorist GC
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #13,941 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
    #15 in  Electronics > GPS & Navigation > GPS Units > Hiking GPS Units
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: March 22, 2010

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Magellan eXplorist GC is the first GPS device 100% dedicated to geocaching that includes out-of-the-box paperless geocaching, seamless connection to geocaching.com, a brilliant color screen, rich graphics, and a simple user interface all packed into a rugged and waterproof device. The device is powered by two AA batteries for up to 15 hours of outdoor adventure along with a highly-sensitive SiRFstarIII GPS chipset that provides 3-meter accuracy. The device is made for geocaching with an uncomplicated interface and the ability to sort and search thousands of geocaches. Mark your find and quickly add field notes. Push all your logs to geocaching.com once you return from your day's adventure. eXplorist GC has tons of fun and familiar graphics, such as smiley faces for logs and merit-based awards to show off your geocaching expertise. Additionally, the product comes packed with common outdoor GPS features, such as waypoint creation, a worldwide basemap, active tracking, and trip odometer.

Features

Seamless Connection to Geocaching.com User Community
Easily connect to the #1 user community for geocaching and perform "Send to GPS", create and sync Pocket Queries, and upload Field Notes.

Free 30 Day Premium Membership to Geocaching.com
Download GPX files, create your own Pocket Queries, and get tons of other premium membership features.
Pre-Loaded with the Most Popular Geocaches in the World
These caches have been found more than any others! Get a complete out-of-the-box experience by searching and finding the top geocaches worldwide!
Paperless Geocaching
Download and view more than 20 unique characteristics of each cache and view, search, filter on the device. Details include name, location, description, hider, size, difficulty, terrain, hint, spoilers, and last 20 user logs among a number of other details.
Easy to Navigate Menus and Rich Graphics
A dedicated device means there is no nonsense to by-pass to get to your geocaches. A simply main menu, intuitive contextual menus, and vibrant graphics make this device easy to use.
Brilliant, sunlight readable color screen
A vibrant 2.2" color transflective screen provides the best readability in direct sunlight.
Store up to 10,000 geocaches on the device
That is a total of 20 Pocket Queries! Load a new GPX file for each trip or all the locations you love to geocache so you'll have data on board when you need it.
Geocache Awards
Keep track on all your finds and receive special awards based on number of finds, types of finds, and other interesting combinations of actions. The more you find, the more you are rewarded!
Rugged and waterproof to IPX-7 standards
Focus on the adventure not protecting the device.
High-sensitivity SiRFstarIII GPS with 3-meter accuracy
Most smart phones provide 20-meter GPS accuracy, which will get you close to the geocaching, but will it really help your find it? 3-meter GPS accuracy will put you on top of the cache and make the find that much easier.
Worldwide Basemap
Orient yourself to nearby streets, rivers, lakes, and parks to help in your treasure hunting expedition.
18 Hours of battery life using 2 AA batteries
Go strong for an entire day (or more) of geocaching. No stopping to replace the batteries.
Create and Store 500 Waypoints
Whether you mark your car, campsite, starting location, or places to re-visit, waypoints are a common and useful feature in all outdoor GPS devices.
WAAS/EGNOS/MSAS
GPX Compatible

VantagePoint Compatible
Download VantagePoint for free at www.magellangps.com

High-speed USB

Additional Features

Picture Viewer
Whether the log has a pic of the last person to find or the hider attached a spoiler image to help locate a well hidden cache, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Suspend Mode
The goal is to conserve battery life by putting the device into an advanced power saving mode. Suspend mode will turn off everything expect for GPS tracking. Wake up the device with a single click.

On-board user memory
Loads on space to add up to 10,000 geocaches and tons of photos and personalized backgrounds.

Record Active Track and See "Breadcrumbs" on the Map Screen
Keep a log of all the steps you took throughout the day hunting for geocaches. Reference your track to find your way back to keep a record of geocaching adventures.

Trip Odometer
Keep tabs on distance travelled, average speed, and other useful statistics.

NMEA Message Output
For hardcore outdoor GPS enthusiasts who want to connect their device to laptop running VantagePoint software and see your position on computer screen.

Multiple Coordinates and Map Datums
Geocache around the world and do it accurately. See your geographic location in UTM coordinates or reference the OS Grid while hunting for caches in Great Britain.

What's in the Box

Magellan eXplorist GC GPS receiver, USB Data Cable, Two (2) AA Batteries, User Handbook

System Requirements

PC Requirements
Microsoft Windows XP or higher, minimum of 256 MB of RAM, minimum of 1.5 GHz processor or higher, CD-ROM drive, minimum of 100 MB of free hard drive space, USB Port, Internet connection, and either Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser.

Product Description

Magellan eXplorist GC is the first GPS device 100% dedicated to geocaching that includes out-of-the-box paperless geocaching, seamless connection to geocaching.com, a brilliant color screen, rich graphics, and a simple user interface all packed into a rugged and waterproof device. The device is powered by two AA batteries for up to 15 hours of outdoor adventure along with a highly-sensitive SiRFstarIII GPS chipset that provides 3-meter accuracy. The device is made for geocaching with an uncomplicated interface and the ability to sort and search thousands of geocaches. Mark your find and quickly add field notes. Push all your logs to geocaching.com once you return from your day's adventure. eXplorist GC has tons of fun and familiar graphics, such as smiley faces for logs and merit-based awards to show off your geocaching expertise. Additionally, the product comes packed with common outdoor GPS features, such as waypoint creation, a worldwide basemap, active tracking, and trip odometer.

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A well-priced, well-made geocaching device for neophytes and those on a budget, April 23, 2010
By Hugo D. Hackenbush (Main Street, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Magellan eXplorist GC Waterproof Geocaching GPS (Electronics)
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What is Geocaching? It's an outdoor activity akin to treasure hunting, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world.

Sound interesting? Then you might want to give the Magellan eXplorist GC Handheld Geocaching GPS Navigator a whirl. It's an entry-level GPS geocaching device that is perfectly suited for neophytes, yet has enough capabilities to suit the basic needs of geocaching veterans.

The good:

No-frills geocaching device is perfect for newbies as it covers all the basics expected from a geocaching device; It has a nice, colorful screen; its interface is intuitive and easy to use, with very precise tracking and a nice compass feature; is small (but not too much so), ruggedly-built, waterproof and feels very comfortable in the hands; battery life is stated by Magellan to be a very good 15 hours, but my experience with the eXplorist GC using standard Duracell batteries has averaged battery life at around 17-18 hours; has a "suspend mode" that preserves battery life; it comes preloaded with 1,000 of the most popular worldwide geocache locations; it includes a highly detailed worldwide basemap; it can accommodate up to 500 waypoints and 5,000 point tracklogs; USB interface is non-proprietary; various plug-ins and firmware updates (as well as the device's user manual) is (or will be) available through Magellan's website, promising increased device functionality and software improvements; optional 30-day trial for premium geocaching membership services, which allow for great features such as paperless caching, pocket queries and bookmarks (after the 30 day trial, there is a $30 annual fee or a $10 three-month fee for the optional membership service); price is right for a GPS geocaching device of this caliber.


The bad:

No other GPS capabilities besides geocaching included in package; no option to add external memory; text is fairly small, potentially making reading a chore for those with strained eyesight; software response is somewhat sluggish; very basic features means this is a no-frills geocaching device which, while perfect for newbies, may not be satisfactory for more experienced (or wealthier) geocachers who are looking for more "bells and whistles" in their geocaching device; as mentioned earlier, in order to get the maximum benefit of this device, you will have to fork over either a $30 annual fee or a $10 three-month fee for premium geocaching membership services (IMO, totally worth the extra cost for the premium features).

All in all, considering its terrific price point and what you get right out of the box, the Magellan eXplorist GC Handheld is strongly recommended for newbies or those on a tight budget.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Upgraded to the Magellan eXplorist GC, June 30, 2010
By Erin Palmer (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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I upgraded from a very basic GPS to the eXplorist GC because I only use my GPS for geocaching. After looking at the reviews of other products I chose this one because it kept billing itself as the GPS solely for geocaching and it was paperless. I really enjoy the whole paperless feature. I have found a dozen or so caches in different terrain. Here is what I've noticed so far.

PRO:
I love the fact the hints, descriptions, and a couple logs are all in the unit. (I guess that would be true with any paperless geocaching unit.
I love that I didn't have to pay for a unit that provides the sunrise/sunset times, tides, or detailed topographical information.
I love having the roads and rivers/lakes show up on the display.
I like the USB connection.

CON:
The unit takes a bit to get a signal.
It doesn't come with a real manual. You have to go online to get the PDF file.
There is a little bit of a learning curve, especially when it doing multi-caches and puzzles.
I haven't been able to upload my field notes.

All that being said I am glad I bought this unit. I'm still getting used to the unit, but I love the paperless aspect. I'm able to find plenty of help online, so the lack of an actual manual hasn't really been a problem.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Magellan ExploristGC, July 23, 2010
By Fritz "Fritz" (California) - See all my reviews
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A decent GPS for geocaching. It comes with street maps for the entire United States and Canada and base maps (major highways) for the rest of the world. In the US and Canada you can navigate (it does NOT auto-navigate) yourself to a geocache by watching the mapping screen and choosing a route.

Included is a 30 day premium membership to Geocaching.com. In order to fully utilize the features of this unit you MUST be a premium member. Paperless caching, pocket queries and bookmarks, uploading field notes all require maintaining a premium membership ($30 per year).

I have been geocaching more than 7 years and have experience with Magellan, Garmin and DeLorme GPS units. I attended a C.I.T.O. event in San Francisco earlier this year and won an ExploristGC in a drawing at that event. My thanks to Magellan.

The unit comes with an (abbreviated) User Handbook packaged in the box. For the complete User Handbook you will need to access MagellanGPS.com and either read it online or download the Adobe acrobat file to your computer. It is one of the better user handbooks that I have seen for GPS units. Learning to use the unit (for me) was relatively easy and quick.

Cons:

Small text. Hard to read while bouncing in a car.
Transflective screen. Hard to see even in bright sunlight. I needed to use the backlight most of the time.
Battery life. About 10 hours for rechargeables (because I needed to use the backlight most of the time.)
Position Update. Most of the time pretty good. Occasionally VERY slow (up to 2 minutes).
Switching between screens. The Map screen and the Dashboard screen are used extensively for geocaching. It is not possible to rapidly switch between these two screens.
Awards. The unit is preprogrammed to "award" you for 10 miles traveled, your 1st, 10th, etc. cache found. No way to turn this off.

Pros: (with Geocaching premium membership)

Making field notes and uploading those notes to Geocaching.com
Paperless caching (including viewing any photographs and graphics from the cache pages.)
Memory capacity. The unit will hold the information for thousands of caches.

I would give the ExploristGC another star if the position update was faster and more reliable. It is VERY irritating to be 10 or 15 feet away from a cache and not know which way to go. On numerous occasions I have walked past a cache by 30 to 40 feet before the unit updates my distance from the cache and the arrow swings on the compass to point toward the cache. (I see this problem listed on some other reviews but not all, so this problem could be limited to some but not all units.)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great GPS for caching.
I just started geocaching recently with my kids. I looked at various reviews and was thinking of getting the GP-40 based on various information, but decided against that. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Happy so far
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We are very happy with our new GPS. Especially going paperless. We used to print all the logs for each cache just to make sure that when we searched for the container, we'd have... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Decent choice for beginners.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good basic GPSr for geocaching
The Magellan eXplorist GC is a good basic GPSr that is specialized for geocaching vs. general navigation, although general navigation is possible with the unit. Read more
Published 3 months ago by R. Long

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice unit
First a caveat: This is the only geocaching device I've used so take my comments with a grain of salt. As a first time geocacher, this device seems to work very well. Read more
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I had never tried geocaching but really enjoyed this hand held device. It made the whole experience easy to understand, fun to try, and accessible to my family. Read more
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