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DustyWalker

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  1. My boss is looking at purchasing some iPaq rx5900 travel companion PDA's for our field staff, and has asked my opinion. I don't know much about them. Does anyone have experience with this unit and /or Tom Tom software? If so, what do you think of them?

  2. My boss is looking at purchasing some iPaq rx5900 travel companion PDA's for our field staff, and has asked my opinion. I don't know much about them. Does anyone have experience with this unit and /or Tom Tom software?

  3. Can any of you tell me why you might prefer the Garmin 60 CSx to of the Vista Cx and vice versa? I have to make a business case to my boss re. purchasing a number of GPSr's and need ammunition. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

  4. I have had my RAM mount for about six months. When I got it I found it difficult to get the GPS in and out, so filed it down some, as mentioned above. It is made of very durable nylon, or whatever, and it would have taken forever to "wear" in. It works great. No probs. here. You just have to be careful not to remove too much material.

  5. The rubber on my Vista came loose the same way. It is VERY common. I tried different glues, and finally found that Loctite Xtreme does the trick. It doesn't melt the rubber and can be removed if need be.

     

    Can you help with this product... a stock # or something? I've searched high and low for a product called "Loctite Xtreme" and can't seem to find it. The rubber band on my VistaCx is bothering me...

     

    The part no. on the tube I have is 06875. Here is a link:

     

    http://www.loctiteproducts.com/products/de...43&plID=710

  6. I'm not familiar with the Rino but when I had a problem with the rubber on my e-trex the only glue I could find that would hold was loctite extreme. The others I tried wouldn't stick to the rubber, which seems to be silicone impregnated. The loctite didn't damage the rubber and I can still take it apart again if I want to. I'm not sure that would be the case with super glue.

  7. I sometimes use Mapsource to load waypoints into my GPS (60CSx) and it will load the hints (providing I have typed them in) It is much easier than directly entering them into the GPs if you have several to do. I don't carry any paper, just the waqypoint and the hint in my receiver, so I guess I am paperless without a PDA.

  8. "I am new to all this....but could someone please explain what is 1:100,000 and 1:24,000 terms mean? I am lost...i don't know much about it"

     

    1:100,000/1:24,000/1:12500 etc. are Representative Factors or R.F.'s and should not be confused with map scales. For example, they mean that:

     

    one inch on the map equals 100, 000 inches on the ground

    one mile on the map equals 100,000 miles on the ground

    one popsicle stick on the map equals 1000,000 popsicle sticks on the ground

    etc.

     

    For example: 1:12,500 would mean that:

     

    1 cm on the map equals 12,500 cm on the ground. It can then be converted to a scale of 1 cm on the map equals 125 metres on the ground (1 cm =125 m)

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