This makes me wonder.... if Garmin won't allow for deletion of items, why not move them to 0N/0E or 0N/180W ? or 90S,0W? I'm going to bet there's not enough memory to keep up with 40 or so waypoints in the tracker, but it would be cool to be able to know that the stations on your map were _current_.
Wes On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:15, Al Waschka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have been using the setup for a month or so. The biggest drawback > that I can't figure out how to get around is you don't know when another > station was in the position plotted on the map. As long as that person > remains in range and continues to operate the position moves. But if they > run out of range, turn the radio off, or whatever, the position you see on > the map may be from an hour or longer ago. If you drive somewhere today and > drive back tomorrrow, tomorrow you will see positions plotted today. I have > managed to mitigate that somewhat for road trips by setting maxrange in the > ot2 to 25 miles and clearing out the waypoints periodically. That way I > know that as I drive any position within 25 miles of my location is fresh. > I really wish that Scott could come up with a way to age the waypoints out > of the Nuvi, but as best I can tell that would require the OT2 to keep the > full list of waypoints onboard and upload it to the Nuvi periodically. > There doesn't seem to be a way to delete individual waypoints from the FMI. > > I have never received a message. I don't see that capability as very > useful for general hamming, but it is ideal for public service and emergency > net use. > > Just my opinions, others may vary. > > Al K5TAN > > > > -- Wes --- God help those who do not help themselves.
