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I bought a GlobalSat 615m a few years back for a great price of around $150. The GPS watch works great and it’s very handy to have both hands “free” while climbing around looking for geocaches.   The one big problem is lack of software for uploading geocaches. After doing some Googleing I found this project Replacement for the craptastic software shipped with the Globalsat GH615This allows you to easily upload waypoints to the GH615M.     Now the problem was getting a Geocaching loc file to a waypoints.txt file.    http://www.geocaching.com/waypoints/default.aspxWorking with my friend Eppler made this site EpplerSoft It converts the loc file to the format needed by Gh615 project.

• Download the project files from http://code.google.com/p/gh615/
• I put the file contents in c:\gps\
• Using the read me in the folder configure the settings for your GPS.   I had to change com2 to com3 but that was it.
• Next go to Start -> Run -> and type CMD
• Go to your GPS folder.  cd c:\gps
• run gh600_console.exe
• Make sure your watch is on -> plugged in -> and under “configuration” set to “DATA LINK TO PC”
• At  ”=>”  type “e” to download any current waypoints.  This is an easy test to make sure it’s working.
• Next go over to your  geocaching.com account.  Search for geocaches near you
• At the bottom of the page click “Check All”  then click on “Download Waypoints”
• Save the geocaching.loc file to your desktop
• Next right click on gecoaching.loc and choose open.  It should show a list of program s and choose Notepad
• Select all the text, ctrl+a, then copy it, ctrl+c
• Next visit Eppler’s page http://epplersoft.com/gpx/?Paste the contents we just copied into the text box, ctrl+v.
• Chose the icon you want for your geocaches, I use flag
• Make sure XML type is set to LOC
• Click convert.
• Now do Ctrl+a and Ctrl+c  or Edit select all then edit copy
• Back in notepad click file new
• Next past the website content into this new window
• Go to file save as
• Save it as waypoints.txt in your GPS folder,,, c:\gps\
• Now back in the command window type in “f” at =>
• If all goes well you’ll see the GPS saying receiving waypoints and the command window say uploaded x amount of waypoints!
• Each way point will now show up on the gps with the cach name, such as GC1MKK7

It’s a little long but works well for getting Geo Caching data to your GH-615

Thanks to Steven Eppler & Speigei  for thier work

We finally got to use the telescope last night! The first thing we went to was Saturn. Even with all the light pollution you could see the rings around it. We also looked at Mars and Orion’s Belt. While at Connected lakes a car pulled up and Gavin yelled, “Quick hide the milk”. When we where leaving he also asked why we where leaving, because we hadn’t see all the stars yet.