I bought a Garmin 72 over the weekend while on vacation at Lake George, NY
for about $150.

When I got home, I wanted to load in a chart for the areas I power boat in
Connecticut, and realized no cable was included in the package. I see
Garmin has a kit 010-10489-0o for $118 online plus shipping - this is almost
what I paid for the GPS!

Would I be better off returning this unit and getting a more complete
handheld GPS with cables, software etc?
thanks,
John
87 Bayliner Capri Cuddy 4cyl 3.0L I/O.

Around 10/11/2004 6:09 PM, John Cadella wrote:

I bought a Garmin 72 over the weekend while on vacation at Lake George, NY
for about $150.

When I got home, I wanted to load in a chart for the areas I power boat in
Connecticut, and realized no cable was included in the package. I see
Garmin has a kit 010-10489-0o for $118 online plus shipping - this is almost
what I paid for the GPS!


http://www.pfranc.com/cables/index.mhtml

I bought a 12v adapter with a coiled cord and a separate serial adapter
for my eTrex through these guys. No complaints here, and I used the
power adapter all summer long in both my boat and my car.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:09:49 GMT, "John Cadella"
wrote:

I bought a Garmin 72 over the weekend while on vacation at Lake George, NY
for about $150.

When I got home, I wanted to load in a chart for the areas I power boat in
Connecticut, and realized no cable was included in the package. I see
Garmin has a kit 010-10489-0o for $118 online plus shipping - this is almost
what I paid for the GPS!

Would I be better off returning this unit and getting a more complete
handheld GPS with cables, software etc?

$24.99 - and it ships free!!!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...ectronics&st=*

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

John Cadella wrote:
I bought a Garmin 72 over the weekend while on vacation at Lake George, NY
for about $150.

When I got home, I wanted to load in a chart for the areas I power boat in
Connecticut, and realized no cable was included in the package. I see
Garmin has a kit 010-10489-0o for $118 online plus shipping - this is almost
what I paid for the GPS!

Would I be better off returning this unit and getting a more complete
handheld GPS with cables, software etc?
thanks,
John
87 Bayliner Capri Cuddy 4cyl 3.0L I/O.


Check out GPSGeek.com. They have what you're looking for at a whopping
price of $8.30. Look for part number 010-10141 under cables. I ordered
from them a short while back and was surprised that I got my order from
them in two days (west coast to east coast). That cable also appears to
be compatible with my GPSMAP 76CS, although the one that comes with the
GPSMAP 76CS is USB.

-Jim

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:07:16 -0400, Jim wrote:

John Cadella wrote:
I bought a Garmin 72 over the weekend while on vacation at Lake George, NY
for about $150.

When I got home, I wanted to load in a chart for the areas I power boat in
Connecticut, and realized no cable was included in the package. I see
Garmin has a kit 010-10489-0o for $118 online plus shipping - this is almost
what I paid for the GPS!

Would I be better off returning this unit and getting a more complete
handheld GPS with cables, software etc?
thanks,
John
87 Bayliner Capri Cuddy 4cyl 3.0L I/O.


Check out GPSGeek.com. They have what you're looking for at a whopping
price of $8.30. Look for part number 010-10141 under cables. I ordered
from them a short while back and was surprised that I got my order from
them in two days (west coast to east coast). That cable also appears to
be compatible with my GPSMAP 76CS, although the one that comes with the
GPSMAP 76CS is USB.

Ah - see- even cheapereerrererrrrrer......rrr

All the best,

Tom
--------------

"What the hell's the deal with this newsgroup...
is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004

Also Sprach John Cadella :

I bought a Garmin 72 over the weekend while on vacation at Lake George, NY
for about $150.

When I got home, I wanted to load in a chart for the areas I power boat in
Connecticut, and realized no cable was included in the package. I see
Garmin has a kit 010-10489-0o for $118 online plus shipping - this is almost
what I paid for the GPS!

Well, several people have provided you links to cables, but no one has
informed you that unfortunately, the GPS 72 cannot display maps. About
all you can do is create waypoints on your PC, and transfer them to the
GPS.

Would I be better off returning this unit and getting a more complete
handheld GPS with cables, software etc?

You might be interested in the Garmin GPSMap 76, which is the same size
and shape as the GPS 72, but can dislay maps. www.tvnav.com is a very
reputable company, and has them for $250 new or $200 remanufactured. It
includes the PC interface cable. It comes with a built in basemap
including major roads and coastlines, but does not include marine
charts. That is provided by the Bluechart software, which TVnav sells for
$110.

Dan


--
On a clear disk you can seek forever.

On 12 Oct 2004 10:51:12 GMT, Marshall Banana wrote:

Also Sprach John Cadella :

I bought a Garmin 72 over the weekend while on vacation at Lake George, NY
for about $150.

When I got home, I wanted to load in a chart for the areas I power boat in
Connecticut, and realized no cable was included in the package. I see
Garmin has a kit 010-10489-0o for $118 online plus shipping - this is almost
what I paid for the GPS!

Well, several people have provided you links to cables, but no one has
informed you that unfortunately, the GPS 72 cannot display maps. About
all you can do is create waypoints on your PC, and transfer them to the
GPS.

Being a person who wouldn't own a Garmin anything even if you paid me,
the 72 is actually a glorified compass like the Magellan 300 series?

All the best,

Tom
--------------

"What the hell's the deal with this newsgroup...
is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004

Also Sprach Short Wave Sportfishing :

Being a person who wouldn't own a Garmin anything even if you paid me,
the 72 is actually a glorified compass like the Magellan 300 series?

Well, a little better than that. It does have a plotter screen, so you
can display your course and record your tracks, and it does have a larger,
higher resolution screen than some of Garmin's other handheld units, but
no mapping.

BTW, I personally give Garmin two thumbs up. My GPSMap 176c has been
very reliable, and Garmin sent me a free Bluecharts CD when they released
a newer version than the one I bought. My only real complaint is that
their blank data cards are WAY too friggin expensive. I mean, a 32mb
Garmin cart costs around 60 bucks, while I can buy a 1 gig compactflash
card for $67.

Dan

--
There is no substitute for good manners, except perhaps fast reflexes.

On 13 Oct 2004 05:31:20 GMT, Marshall Banana wrote:

Also Sprach Short Wave Sportfishing :

Being a person who wouldn't own a Garmin anything even if you paid me,
the 72 is actually a glorified compass like the Magellan 300 series?

Well, a little better than that. It does have a plotter screen, so you
can display your course and record your tracks, and it does have a larger,
higher resolution screen than some of Garmin's other handheld units, but
no mapping.

BTW, I personally give Garmin two thumbs up. My GPSMap 176c has been
very reliable, and Garmin sent me a free Bluecharts CD when they released
a newer version than the one I bought. My only real complaint is that
their blank data cards are WAY too friggin expensive. I mean, a 32mb
Garmin cart costs around 60 bucks, while I can buy a 1 gig compactflash
card for $67.

I had a run in with their "technical support" a few years ago and I
vowed to never buy a Garmin product again - and I haven't. :)

That card deal is pretty much the same with all of them though. They
all have their proprietary software and somebody else's isn't good
enough. :)

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

Also Sprach Short Wave Sportfishing :

I had a run in with their "technical support" a few years ago and I
vowed to never buy a Garmin product again - and I haven't. :)

Sorry to hear that. I've certainly had run-ins with various companies
over the years, and can understand not wanting to do business with them in
the future. I'm that way with Best Buy, the electronics store, after they
refused to honor an extended warranty on some crappy VCR.

That card deal is pretty much the same with all of them though. They
all have their proprietary software and somebody else's isn't good
enough. :)

The only ones that I know of which uses standard memory is the
Lowrance Ifinder, which takes cheap and easy to find SD cards. Of course,
marine charts are still rather spendy. I really wish one of the
manufacturers would start to support the ENC format that NOAA uses for
their free nautical charts. I've actually developed some software to
convert the NOAA ENCs for use on Garmin GPSes, but it's kind of labor
intensive and the results not quite as nice as the Bluecharts... but still
useable.

Dan

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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could
force you to do something we'd all love one another.

-- Frank Zappa.