Unfortunately, that's a lot of IFs and the biggest one that isn't happening on the Nuvi 350 (or any other FMI-interfaced device yet), is the final one that allows an individual delete of a waypoint.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Loving my pair of Nuvi 350/T2-135s! Mark Cheavens wrote: > > > Scott has mentioned that he would like to add time stamps to the > packets. This should be able to be done. At the very least you could > then seen when the packet arrived (age). > > IF the packet had the age, AND the tracker could read AND delete if > needed, it could READ each item individually, read the age, delete if > older than x. > > Mark > KC5EVE > At 07:56 AM 10/29/2009, you wrote: >> >> >> 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] >> <mailto:[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. > > >
