OK - I'm looking for a handheld GPS.
Always wanted one but now doing some contracting work so it would be useful to help with in-car navigation too. I'm trying to figure out which model to pick so I'd be grateful for specific advice between these models:
Garmin etrex vista - I'm not hung up on new/small is best. I'm considering this because I expect it's display is better (bigger) than the gecko, it's got 24Mbytes and bigger might also mean bigger aerial.
GPS Map76 - better display that the etrex. WASS EGNOS is important. Another quad helix aerial. Does it have better signal reception ?
The new Garmin 60 - quad filar aerial should give much better reception than the patch antennas used in most other stuff. That's good enough reason alone. 24Mbytes is a bonus. USB is great because I WILL plug into my laptop which doesn't have an old style serial port. Are the colour screens worth having or stick to greyscale and save the cash ?
Priorities: as always I'm looking for a bargain. Signal performance is top priority. garmin not magellan because of reputation and user interface. Map screen.
Thanks for any advice. :biggthump
Always wanted one but now doing some contracting work so it would be useful to help with in-car navigation too. I'm trying to figure out which model to pick so I'd be grateful for specific advice between these models:
Garmin etrex vista - I'm not hung up on new/small is best. I'm considering this because I expect it's display is better (bigger) than the gecko, it's got 24Mbytes and bigger might also mean bigger aerial.
GPS Map76 - better display that the etrex. WASS EGNOS is important. Another quad helix aerial. Does it have better signal reception ?
The new Garmin 60 - quad filar aerial should give much better reception than the patch antennas used in most other stuff. That's good enough reason alone. 24Mbytes is a bonus. USB is great because I WILL plug into my laptop which doesn't have an old style serial port. Are the colour screens worth having or stick to greyscale and save the cash ?
Priorities: as always I'm looking for a bargain. Signal performance is top priority. garmin not magellan because of reputation and user interface. Map screen.
Thanks for any advice. :biggthump