This saves the likelyhood of starting to walk in the wrong direction until the satellites show you your direction of travel and then you alter your course accordingly. You could very easily start walking degrees from your intended course and not know it until you changed location enough that it showed your movement on whatever zoomed scale you may have your GPS on. I don't expect the compass to be accurate enough for true navigation, just want it to give me a general direction and in this capacity it has always worked perfectly when used properly knowing it's limitations.
I have the Vista HCx and use the compass. I shopped around a lot and when I purchased it, the difference in price wasn't so much to make me get the Legend HCx. I hear this talk about a electric compass and I'm wondering if we're talking about the same that I experience with my new vista HCx. When am approaching a cache I watch the black triangle on my topo map and it points me in the right direction since the arrow on the map is always pointing in the direction am pointing the device.
I don't see the need to look at the "rotating compass ring" as described in the manual. It's not that am not experienced with a comapss. Before getting my unit last month I found all the things I was looking for in the woods old homestead foundations with a simple compass and map. You can post now and register later.
If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 11 months ago. Active 6 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 4k times. I tried to find eTrex legend HCx on Garmin. Improve this question. Tomas Tomas 1, 2 2 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Lars Kotthoff Lars Kotthoff 4 4 bronze badges. I think I need to get my glasses checked You can post now and register later.
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Recommended Posts. Posted June 23, Link to comment. It seems a bit silly to be holding a compass in one hand and a gps in the other when you don't have to.
Also note you can turn it off and anyway it doesn't put any measurable drain on the batteries. I have the Vista Cx.. Having said that, I still DO carry a mechanical compass in my caching kit lol. One thing with the Cx's compass though,, you have to hold the unit absolutely level for it to read correctly, and it doesn't warn you if you're holding it off-angle,, sometimes frustrating!
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