Viper wrote:
The older Map76, Map76S, Map176C etc. all had an anchor drag alarm that
persisted until acknowledged. The new 76CSx and 60CSx anchor drag alarm
beeps only once, and that's it. As you will likely not be at the helm
or Nav station at such a time, this "improvement" renders these newer
units effectively useless for this specific role.


Garmin seems to recognize the need for a more persistant alarm with the
older products, why have they stepped backwards with the newer
products???

just thinking out loud ... i bet it wouldn't be hard to make one of
these things, an anchor alarm i mean. for someone with any kind of
programming experience it seems like it would be fairly trivial to
build one ... just grab the data coming in from the GPS unit, the
serial stream, parse it, convert the location to something you can
easilly do math with, then do some simple "am i inside the circle" type
of math. then you could do whatever you wanted, set it to whatever
distance you want, have it set off whatever alarm is going to actually
alert you, etc, if your boat was on the net your pc could even send you
an email or a text message to let you know that you were outside your
anchor's scope. it seems so easy, in fact, that i am guessing that a
lot of gps map software has the feature built in, though i don't know
that to be true.