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Soho
location: Boston MA, USA Gender: Male
paths to the center of a circle are many
| | GPS < on 11/15/2005 3:20 PM >
| | | Personally I believe that a good GPS unit may be very useful in UE. IF you have any ideas, or experience I would greatly appreciate your post, especially in what kind of a gps system to invest in, brand, model, handheld, PDA, ect..... ~Soho
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Collector
location: SLC, Utah
| | Re: GPS <Reply # 1 on 11/15/2005 5:10 PM >
| | | You will probably get many different opinions here. I am personally a Garmin guy, but there are lots of people out there that like Magellan. I have had a couple Garmin units over the years, but I am currently using this unit: http://www.garmin.com/products/foretrex101/. It doesn’t have all the features of some of the larger color screen units (no built in maps for example), but having a small wrist top unit really works well for UE, hiking, etc. You should check on the Geocaching forums (http://forums.groundspeak.com/gc/). There you can find out everything you ever wanted to know about GPS receivers. You could search this forum, as I believe it has been discussed here a few times.
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Beryl
Not as fluffy as Av! location: Germany Gender: Male
Uncle Beryl
| | Re: GPS <Reply # 2 on 11/15/2005 5:17 PM >
| | | I'll loudly second Garmin.
Licentious acrimonious puer æternus. Libertine. |
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GreyKat
location: Minneapolis/St Paul MN Gender: Male
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
| | Re: GPS <Reply # 3 on 11/15/2005 6:37 PM >
| | | I use a Trimble Geo XT, as well as a Garmon and also have an old school Ipaq and an ag132 GPS dome. The Trimble is great for its weather case and internal GPS dome where the Garmons is a flip out. Both have very similar accuracy and the Garmon is cheaper. Anything in particular you want to know?
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Soho
location: Boston MA, USA Gender: Male
paths to the center of a circle are many
| | Re: GPS <Reply # 4 on 11/15/2005 6:49 PM >
| | | Posted by GreyKat I use a Trimble Geo XT, as well as a Garmon and also have an old school Ipaq and an ag132 GPS dome. The Trimble is great for its weather case and internal GPS dome where the Garmons is a flip out. Both have very similar accuracy and the Garmon is cheaper. Anything in particular you want to know?
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Not specifically, thank you though, I believe I have chosen the model I wish to purchase.
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Pravus
location: Chicago Area Gender: Male
Now the two key words for tonight - "caution" and "flammable"...
| | | | Re: GPS <Reply # 5 on 11/16/2005 12:54 AM >
| | | My buddy has a garmin but it's next to useless except marking where the car is, if even (at least for UE, damn useful for other things though).. In the city it's near impossible to get a signal unless your on a bridge over the river.. If your indoors you get no signal.. underground yer screwed as well.. the best reason to have one that I can see if underground and your mapping what entrances are connected..
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