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Garmin and model aircraft
Hey guy's I'm new to forum and absolutely love both my bikes.I just wish i'd had my new garmin last week as my bro from Texas came in and we rode ourselves silly.My question is this , has anyone used one of these things on remote controlled aircraft and boats for max speed and altitude readings? i ordered the Garmin really because of that trip and elevation computer.I fly large scale gasoline powered R/C planes ,and that should open up a whole new vista for me.i've tried various downlink stratagies but they mostly fail due i guess to the Rf noise and the low transmit power."ya dont want to interfere with the R/C reciever.So i can at least finally know this info after flight or boat run.let me know what you think .later:thumbup1:
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Frank,
where can I source those maps? bob |
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OK you probably have already googled it ... OZ www.gpsoz.com.au/tracks4australia/ groups.yahoo.com/group/tracks4australia/ About 55Mb Africa www.tracks4africa.com/ About 15Mb As you can tell by the file size - OZies are doing a good job .. The African one covers southern Africa well, Morocco good, and most of the middle not at all. The maps depend on people contributing their tracks to add to and improve the map. Grant wants to set up a GPS track log too - that is ok but for Africa and Australia I'd rather see people contribute to these maps. You can look at them with out the Garmin stuff - GPSmapEditor will do that ... err try www.cgpsmapper.com/ No .. I'll have to look it up...later On the 60Cx - it is a tough little unit. Fell at about 85km/h in deep red sand .. case showes impacts with sand .. unit still works but has two cracks across the screen making it hard to read. Exchange unit for $aud300 |
'Ere you go
http://www.geopainting.com/en/index.html GPSMapEditor (views them too) ----------------------- On the OCR I ran both the 60Cx and a PDA - inter connected. On the PDA I ran oziexploerCE with both Hemma maps and Natmap 1:250k topo maps. Using Oziexploer and the GPS places the map on the PDA with you in the centre, north up and auto scrolls to the next map .. will also auto go to a map with more detail if you set it up that way. The PDA was not good in the sun (useless) but provided another 2 sets of maps for different information when confused err more confused than normal. |
60csx vs 60c
A friend of mine recently bought the 60csx. I have the 60c. We were recently in the lobby/atrium of a 3 story hotel in Mexico. My 60c did not pick up any satellites but his 60csx picked up all satellites.
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Review - 60CS vs 60CSX
There is a nice comparison of 60CS vs 60CSX.
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