<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Perhaps replace it with a Garmin Montana 600-series? Touchscreen, street routing, APRS support via NMEA I/O.<br><br>-Jerome, W0JRT<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 1/4/13, Andrew P. <i><andrewemt@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Andrew P. <andrewemt@hotmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] Why is my AvMap G6 flaky?<br>To: "aprssig@tapr.org " <aprssig@tapr.org><br>Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 9:58 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Followup to all:<br><br>My problem with the AvMap G6 isn't GPS reception; when it starts up, it seems to get a good GPS lock pretty quickly and track accurately (although it appears to be inconsistent in using Snap-to-Road when I go into parking lots). My problem was getting the thing to start at all.<br><br>I did try
Lawrence's suggestion; I had two deep-cycle batteries behind a battery isolator from the vehicle's regular power system (these batteries are primarily there to run my Engel DC-powered portable refrigerator without flattening the main vehicle low-voltage battery), so I plugged the AvMap's DC power cord into the DC outlets connected to the auxiliary batteries, and it seemed to start up much more reliably (although still slowly).<br><br>But that still didn't affect the AvMap's inability to calculate more than one trip routing per power-up. If I tried to change my destination, it would always fail with "Error calculating the path" until I power-cycled the AvMap. Oddly enough, when I deviated from the AvMap's chosen course (several times I tried switching to "shortest route" instead of "fastest time", and that routing always wanted to get my onto dinky side-streets), it was able to successfully re-calculate to account for my disobedience. It just couldn't
deal with a new destination without a power cycle.<br><br>Much weirdness, and significant disappointment. If the touchscreen wasn't dying on my old Magellan GPS, I would go back to it, because it was more reliable and faster than the AvMap (and significantly cheaper, too). Good thing I knew where I was going, and was only using the AvMap as a GPS source for the Kenwood and for arrival time estimates.<br><br>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>