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PDA GPS Receivers...
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 03:19:51 GMT, (Larry W4CSC) wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 12:01:25 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
Anybody have any experience with these little devices?
I'm speaking of the iPAQ series PDA/handheld computers and the Navman
GPS receiver with the Maptech charts.
Wow! That costs about the same as a Beneteau Bavaria....(c;
That's a sailboat right? Those floatie things with the big sticks in
the middle and the huge bed sheets? ;)
I had a electrical power failure last summer - operator error and
easily correctable - but I started thinking about "what if" and how to
solve it - my brother uses this combination and it seems to work for
him.
I did a cost comparison against getting a color portable GPS with
mapping and the cost, believe it or not, is a little more effective
with this combination considering the following - versatility (my
brain cells are losing their charge - normal for my age and genetic
background), viewing screen size (as compared to Magelleon or Garmin),
available memory for charts (they are making gigabyte SD cards now) so
it essentially becomes another sort-of electronic "belt tool" - an
electronic Leatherman if you will.
Besides, you have to spend money on something right? :)
Later,
Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"I object to fishing tournaments less for
what they do to fish than what they do to
fishermen." Ted Williams - 1964
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