Receiver sensitivity for Oregon 400T

I do plenty of hiking, some hunting, and a little canoeing. Most of my
hiking is in Pennsylvania hardwoods. I've wanted a GPS for these purposes,
primarily because I am always interested in tracking my hikes, and generally
watching the terrain. I've used compass and Topo maps for this for many
years. A friend who was moving on up gave me an Etrex Legend.
Unfortunately, even now in mid-winter with no leaves on any of the trees, I
find I get no signal in the woods unless I am on a fire road or very wide
snow mobile trail. I usually skip these and hike the untracked woods. Can
anyone comment on the sensitivity of the receiver in the Oregon 400T. It's
a little more money than I care to spend on a potential failed experiment.

Thanks

wrote:


My 76 CSx has no problems in fairly heave tree cover while mounted on
the handlebars of my Quad. When I upload the tracks to Google earth
you cannot even tell there are trails there. It looks like I was
riding on top of trees.

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Larry
Citrus Co. Fl.

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Assuming the 'high-sensitivity receiver' in the Oregon 550t is the
same as the one on the 400t - which is a reasonable assumption, as
other differences are very minor (more memory for waypoints and
routes, very useful geotagging camera), you should have no problem. I
was bemused the other day when I took my 550t on the ferry to France,
and it got a fix when I switched it on while in the car, still in the
hold in the centre of the ship, several decks down... I have an eTrex
(Venture) as well, and it's not a patch on the 60CSx or the Oregon
550t for getting and then keeping a fix.

I would recommend the 550t over the 400t if you can run to the extra $$
$ - the camera facility, which makes each photo a waypoint if you wish
and saves every one with embedded co-ordinates, is in my opinion/
experience a very valuable feature for post-hike tracking.