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Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Jul 27 2008 5:04 pm
by cactusrose63
Looking for a hand held, lightweight, easy to use GPS Tracking system for day or overnight hiking. Less expensive if possible since I am not sure how often I will use it. Any ideas of brands or specific features it really needs to have to be user friendly? I am not a computer geek after all... Thanks.
Re: Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Aug 07 2008 9:51 am
by mttgilbert
Tim, I'm not sure about the 76 series but I know that Garmin recommends that you not put 2gbs woth of maps into the colorado units. It could cause the unit to run slow. No real functionality problem just a speed issue.
Re: Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Aug 08 2008 3:22 pm
by cactusrose63
davis2001r6 wrote: I just bought a Garmin 76CSx ($245 on e-bay), only had it a week, but have had no softbware problems yet.
Do you have windows Vista by any chance???
Re: Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Aug 08 2008 6:31 pm
by big_load
I wouldn't expect any other software to work better with Vista, but I suppose that's not saying much. It works great with XP.
Re: Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Aug 13 2008 10:19 am
by Davis2001r6
cactusrose63 wrote:davis2001r6 wrote: I just bought a Garmin 76CSx ($245 on e-bay), only had it a week, but have had no softbware problems yet.
Do you have windows Vista by any chance???
Nope, just regular XP. I must say I am very impressed and happy with how the GPS performed this weekend in Colorado. Never lost a signal even in heavy forest canopy. The first set of batteries haven't died yet with 12 hours of hiking along with another hour or two of driving around in the car with it on.
Re: Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Aug 26 2008 10:57 am
by mcontreras
We just purchased the Garmin Rhino 120. It only has 8Mb of memory. Does anyone know how these measure distance? Actual distance or as someone esle put it "as the crow flies".
This is our very first GPS unit. My husband hunts a lot and has never used one in his life, he mainly bought it for me and we have friends that we typically go hunting/camping/fishing with and they have purchase the same one, so we can all communicate if needed, since it has the two-way radio.
Re: Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Aug 26 2008 11:43 am
by te_wa
if you go to the Sandy Saddle loop, somewhere around Castersen seep there is a Garmin Geko 201. If you find it, you can have it.
Re: Hand held GPS recommendation
Posted: Aug 26 2008 12:48 pm
by mttgilbert
GPSs measure actual distance traveled (with a caveat that there are known accuracy issues - you can usually figure less than 5% off).
THe Geko is a good model! you should go get it.