All, Thank you for the responses to my email this morning. Thanks to Nick (KB1RVT) for doing a little bit of legwork and discovering that the Venture HC has the Maidenhead display! Yay!!! It was one of those things I needed, I had, but never to the time to investigate it.
73! Zack KD8KSN EN80sd -------------------------------------------------- From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:22 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: GPS for dx-expedition > Hi Zack! > >> What is this 'GPSMAP76S'??? If I am understanding correctly, it plots >> grids >> on the GPS screen? If so, is this software or a separate GPS receiver? >> I >> have a Garmin Venture HC, would it be applicable to it? It would be a >> lot >> easier to look down and see what grid you are in on the display rather >> than >> calculate it using lat/lon. > > The Garmin GPSMAP 76S is a discontinued GPS receiver: > > https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=183 > > I can make its main display show either my latitude/longitude or a > grid locator. No need to convert latitude/longitude to grids or vice > versa. Many Garmin GPS units, and some from other manufacturers, > have this functionality. > > In a quick scan of the PDF manual for your Venture HC GPS, the > word "Maidenhead" - the fornal name of the grid-locator system - > did not appear. It doesn't look like you can make your GPS display > the grid locators directly. It does have a screen where it shows the > latitude/longitude and accuracy figure, so it could be used if you > took the pictures to document your location on a grid boundary or > 4-grid intersection. > > 73! > > > > > Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK > http://www.wd9ewk.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
