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Rick Morel
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PDA GPS Receivers...
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 12:01:25 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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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.
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 03:19:51 GMT,
(Larry W4CSC) wrote:
Wow! That costs about the same as a Beneteau Bavaria....(c;
Almost :-) Seriously, I saved money. "Final Step" has a fixed mount
Garmin 162 mapping GPS. I wanted color. A 176C + memory card + what I
needed with Bluechart would have been $2,000. I already had the
Maptech charts I needed. Cost was $600 for the IPAQ - I think they're
down to about $400 now, and $300 for the Navman with Pocket Navigator.
I already had a couple 256M Flash Cards, but I think they're about
50-bucks.
Works out fine. The 162 has Waterways and Lights and talks to the
autopilot, the IPAQ right next to it has full color "regular" charts.
Rick
S/V Final Step
http://www.morelr.com/coronado/
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