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Hey Mike,
Where do you do your tx fishing? I fish a club and the BFL series. Usually a fe American Bass Anglers also. I use an eagle status with mapping. After gettinf lost on Murray one day, I bought one with a map. I had a hand held, thought I was close to the landing, but the coordinates had me on the other end of the lake. ( i forgot to set a waypoint when I left). Log story short, found a striper fisherman who told me I was one cove from where I wanted to be. Turns out, the map company had the coord's wrong on their maps.
Where do you do your tx fishing? I fish a club and the BFL series. Usually a fe American Bass Anglers also. I use an eagle status with mapping. After gettinf lost on Murray one day, I bought one with a map. I had a hand held, thought I was close to the landing, but the coordinates had me on the other end of the lake. ( i forgot to set a waypoint when I left). Log story short, found a striper fisherman who told me I was one cove from where I wanted to be. Turns out, the map company had the coord's wrong on their maps.
airphoto
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jt,
Been very happy w/Garmin III .. has the moving map feature, available pigtail for hooking into laptop/portable power and capability for hooking into remote antenna (my plastic van has the foolish metal oxide windshield, so doesn't receive very well.)
Prices may have abated .. I spent $368.00 @ MuttMart .. there are less costly models, but I've never checked them out. Incidentally, same Garmin III, but with aviation software goes for $1,000 or so .. ripoff the aviators, as usual. Recall that the Beech Bonanza (I believe) had armrests from Chrysler products .. $16.00 or so from Chrysler, and you don't wanna know what it'd cost from Beechcraft!
Been very happy w/Garmin III .. has the moving map feature, available pigtail for hooking into laptop/portable power and capability for hooking into remote antenna (my plastic van has the foolish metal oxide windshield, so doesn't receive very well.)
Prices may have abated .. I spent $368.00 @ MuttMart .. there are less costly models, but I've never checked them out. Incidentally, same Garmin III, but with aviation software goes for $1,000 or so .. ripoff the aviators, as usual. Recall that the Beech Bonanza (I believe) had armrests from Chrysler products .. $16.00 or so from Chrysler, and you don't wanna know what it'd cost from Beechcraft!
jt
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Bill
Garmin's home page has a comparison chart for all their models; some specifically are for: on foot, water, road and air. I am considering GPSV(foot, road), upgrade from your GPS III(air)(current model is GPSIII Plus, $364). The GPS V has these additional features; 500 way points w/15 character for name and 50 characters for comments and 50/254 automatically calculated turn-by-turn route or manual point-to-point route, better screen resolution(4 level gray scale 256 x 160; GPSIII, B&W 100x64), 3000 tracklog points, WAAS(wide area augmentation system) capability points; hunting/fishing calculator, celestial info page, proximity waypoints and built-in calculator, audible alarms and 25hr battery life(GPSIII, 36hr) Retail $536, 11/25/01.
Garmin also has three models with color LCD screens. GPS12CX, 3 color, $386; Street Pilot Color Map, 16 color LCD(battery life 2.5hr ?) $890. Street PilotIII, 16 color LCD(battery life 2- 20hr) $1272. Color models appear a bit pricy and are more than I would like to spent unless they are worth the difference. K-Mart on line has the Street Pilots @ $700 and $1,000.
As an experienced hands-on user of GPS and its applicable application to finding your subject/comps, would appreciate any additional comments/info you may have, or a particular feature you desire or one you can live without.
Thanks,
jt
Garmin's home page has a comparison chart for all their models; some specifically are for: on foot, water, road and air. I am considering GPSV(foot, road), upgrade from your GPS III(air)(current model is GPSIII Plus, $364). The GPS V has these additional features; 500 way points w/15 character for name and 50 characters for comments and 50/254 automatically calculated turn-by-turn route or manual point-to-point route, better screen resolution(4 level gray scale 256 x 160; GPSIII, B&W 100x64), 3000 tracklog points, WAAS(wide area augmentation system) capability points; hunting/fishing calculator, celestial info page, proximity waypoints and built-in calculator, audible alarms and 25hr battery life(GPSIII, 36hr) Retail $536, 11/25/01.
Garmin also has three models with color LCD screens. GPS12CX, 3 color, $386; Street Pilot Color Map, 16 color LCD(battery life 2.5hr ?) $890. Street PilotIII, 16 color LCD(battery life 2- 20hr) $1272. Color models appear a bit pricy and are more than I would like to spent unless they are worth the difference. K-Mart on line has the Street Pilots @ $700 and $1,000.
As an experienced hands-on user of GPS and its applicable application to finding your subject/comps, would appreciate any additional comments/info you may have, or a particular feature you desire or one you can live without.
Thanks,
jt
airphoto
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jt,
As usual, marketing demands 'new and better' all of which are not relevant to my/your use. All those additional features you've summarized may be useful to someone, but don't increase the usefulness of what I've got by one iota ..
Those sound like harsh words, but I wouldn't add one thing to the one that I've got!
As usual, marketing demands 'new and better' all of which are not relevant to my/your use. All those additional features you've summarized may be useful to someone, but don't increase the usefulness of what I've got by one iota ..
Those sound like harsh words, but I wouldn't add one thing to the one that I've got!
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