At 05:53 PM 07/08/07, you wrote:
Hi to the group,
I've been following the acronyms thread - somewhat off subject but I
learned a lot.
So it appears that repeater-builder lets the authors deviate from
the original subject matter.
I guess that even though my subject isn't directly related to the
topic of repeater building, it will probably have some good comments
by the 3600+ list members.
I need to buy a good GPS navigational unit for my work. There are
the major players, like garwin and tomtom, to name a few.
Can any one give me some good advice on what to buy? What's good,
bad, indifferent out there? What are some good features that the
units have that you have / like?
Majority of good reviews win. I buy that unit.
Don't let me down - I'm counting on you guys.
TIA,
Don, KD9PT
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I'm in the same situation... I'm looking for a navigation system
for my car, and I need a good talking turn-by-turn system plus
RS232 output to drive a TinyTrack.
I've looked at the Garmin Streetpilot 3 and the C330 but have
not made a choice yet. One decision I have made is
that I don't want a screen any smaller then the Street 3.
I don't want a unit that has anything weird in the cigarette
lighter plug (like the audio amplifier & speaker of the Street 3,
or a +12vDC to +5vDC converter. I want to cut off the cigarette
lighter plug and use Powerpoles into my under-dash mounted
mini-RigRunner. If I have to I will put the Powerpoles on a female
cigarette lighter socket but that's not an ideal solution.
One of the things I'd love to see (and it may be a feature on
a navigation system that I've not had a chance to play with)
is a personal Points Of Interest file. I've no real use for 99.9%
of the POIs that I've seen in the commercial GPSs that I've
looked at...
However I'd like to be able to upload my own POI list and
be able to have it display or not with a couple of keystrokes.
If it can have multiple sections (like vendors, friends, doctors,
toy stores (i.e. HRO, AES, etc), that would be a bonus.
For example, one friend of mine is a broadcast engineer, and
when he travels he likes to drive by AM transmitter sites and
visit friends in the business.
He'd have those in a personal POI list with four sections -
transmitter sites, business friends, personal friends and family.
Likewise another friend is an architect and he has a fascination
for old church architecture... whenever he travels he looks up
the address of every major church over 50 years old in the area
he's visiting and plots them on a local map. If his travels take him
anywhere near a point on that map he stops and takes 20-50
digital pictures. If he owned a portable Nav system he'd have the
address of every major church in the seven western states in a
personal POI file.
If the personal POI file can be uploaded from a PC that
would be nice. If it can be transported on a portable media
(like a CF or SD card) that's even nicer as you could unplug
the card, take it in the house, update it and put it back in the
Nav system.
I've used Garmin and Magellan... but I'm willing to look at
everything, including software-only solutions (i.e. a PC that
lives in the trunk and runs a flavor of Winders, and talks to
a 7" touch screen in the dash).
I'm looking forward to any reply comments.
Mike WA6ILQ
