<div>I got it for $600 from <a href="http://getfeetwet.com">getfeetwet.com</a> (not that I push any particular vendor.... after I bought it there, I found at a couple of other places for $15 to $20 cheaper)..... </div>
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<div>The proprietary mem cards are expensive. around $1/meg. </div>
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<div>Also, another quirk... Yesterday, I told the GPS to plot a route to kd4rdb-15 which was moving. The wayponit kd4rdb-15 stayed put and when another position came in from the kenwood, it created a 2nd icon called "kd4rdb-1 1". When I told it to go to that one, it stayed put and when a new position came in from the kenwood, it became "kd4rdb-1 2".... and so on. So we have a GPS that makes it painful to assign icons to waypoints that move around, and navigate to them. And it does not auto-recalculate a route to a waypoint that is moving around.... it renames the waypoint instead.
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<div>I got a chance to listen to the voice prompts yesterday on my way home... It has a limited vocabulary... words like "straight" "turn left", "keep right", all the numbers, "miles", "feet", "arriving". It does _not_ tell you the name of the road you are approaching, just that you need to make a left turn in 1 mile. Clear and easy to understand. Also, the voice prompts telling you to turn only work when navigating a ROUTE that the GPS has created. I told the unit to navigate a bread crumb that I left on my way to and from work, and it did not give any voice prompts for that route. Also, in automotive mode, when you tell it to go to a location, it gives the option of fastest, shortest, and off road. Off road is 'as the crow flies", the other two generate a route. One neat thing is that it will pop over from showing you a moving map to showing you a diagram of the intersection you are approaching with an arrow showing the path to take. It will show that about 60 seconds ahead of a turn, then flip back to the moving map. About 5 seconds before a turn it will flip back to the diagram again, then back to the moving map once you clear the intersection. Just the info I need at just the right time!
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<div>Overall, I still like it, but there are some caveats for aprs use.</div>
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<div>Wes<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Baxter</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@emv.co.uk">dave@emv.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Nice review Wes, sounds like a great piece of kit...<br><br>But... A snip from Garmin's site...<br><br>"Suggested Retail Price:
<br>$746.65 U.S.D. (for domestic US market only)"<br><br>and typically over £400 GBP in the UK where listed, make it a bit on the pricy side to say the least, for just one type of use (APRS) If I had a boat (I wish!) then maybe. But then, there seem to be some issues with the size and type of memory card used for charts/maps etc, according to other reviews on the web.
<br><br>Oh well, I can dream...<br><br>Dave G0WBX<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">
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