tuck_sushie

I'm not familiar with Mountain Gear selling on Amazon, but I've purchased a ton of stuff directly from mgear.com and never had a bad experience. I've visited their store in Spokane WA and it's very nice and well stocked. On their website, they show the eTrex20 as "in stock" so I just called them to verify. I was told they have 12 Garmin eTrex 20's in stock and 6 are sold so they have 6 left to sell. The eTrex 10 and 30 are both listed to ship on Sept 26th. Hope that helps.

I thought this was interesting. Garmin's new Forerunner 110 supposedly uses a SirfStar chip. http://www.gpsreview.net/garmin-forerunner-110/ "Under the hood a SiRFstarIVTM GPS chip is used, and the battery should last up to 8 hours in GPS mode." Looks like whatever legal problems SirfStar had are behind them now. Good news I think! Chuck

I believe all the Foretrex models have it. The Foretrex 401 has it for sure.

It seems to me that putting two or more gps units so close together you'd create electrical interference that might throw them off. I can take an AM radio tuned between stations and bring my garmin 60 cs up to it and you get a noticeable spike in the static. The gps is definitely capable of causing electrical interference. You might have more valid test results by keeping some distance between them. ?

http://www.mediatek.com/en/news/info.php?sn=15

Actually I'm trying to find one with the MediaTek chip. What puzzled me about the amazon tech specs was the 20 hrs. battery life when the Garmin specs say 18hrs. I thought it might have the new chip, but it clearly says SiRF in the amazon specs. If anyone knows who is shipping a 60csx with the new MediaTek chip in the US please post a link. Thanks!

Do the ones currently shipping from Amazon still have the SiRF chipset? Thanks, Chuck