I have been able to delete all favorites at once or single targets
using the edit function in the nuvi 350
Gary Holderbein
ki6pit
--- In [email protected], "Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)"
<ldeff...@...> wrote:
>
> 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 awasc...@...
> >> <mailto:awasc...@... > 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
