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Sounds right to me.

Then you better figure out how to spell amateur first OMG! LOL! I never could spell the French stuff. I DID have all the right letters. Just not in the right order.

There is no lockout on Mapsource Topo. I am not giving you permission to do anything that the license forbids. City Navigator does have a lockout and you get two codes. If you decide to upgrade your GPS someday you will need the other code for that unit.

I agree gentlemen. Don't get me wrong, I believe that FRS/GMRS radios have a place (I own a pair of Motorolas) and are great for what they were designed for. But for a $25 book, a little bit of study, and a $14 or even free test you can be liscensed for ten years on the amature 70cm/2m bands and have a much better chance of having communication, through a repeater system, with a very sturdy radio (a well placed gas discharge would disable my Motorolas). A Yaesu FT-60 will run about $170. Not cheap, but neither is a Rino that has considerably less capability. Plus you can be useful in an emergency in your community through ARES/RACES. This is an area that I want to get involved in amature radio.

Make that FRS/GMRS and also be aware that you will need a license to use the GMRS frequencies in the radio. I didn't metion the FRS band because it is even less capable than the GMRS band when it comes to emergency communications. But I guess something is better thatn nothing.

True. It's called APRS. It can be done with most HTs through the use of a TinyTrack interface by Byonics. But even better your location can be tracked on the Internet, not just by another Rino user.

Thank you kenk.

Stan, Check out this site: http://www.hello-radio.org/ Keep in mind that radios that function outside of the amature bands are less likely to be useful to you. I strongly doubt that anybody is monitoring the marine bands in Kansas or anywhere else not near a large body of water. Check out the Dual band HTs made by Icom, Yaesu and Kenwood. They are made for hikers and outdoors people. They can tune across the band so you can hit repeaters in the area that you are hiking or caching in. No they don't make them with the GPS integrated into them. But if one piece of equipment fails you still have the other to save your hide. Also remember that the FCC requires you to have a license to use GMRS. It is about $80 per year if I recall correctly. I'm not sure what the fee is for the non-HAM VHF license. Of course, all of this depends on your expectations and needs of the radio equipment.

Amazon is selling it brand new for $348 with free shipping and the card is worth $15.

Is this the Grayscale version?

The Rino line is GMRS which is only useful if you have somebody with you that is also using GMRS or if you're fortunate enough to find somebody monitoring the frequency. Also keep in mind that the range estimates are very generous. To get the range that is advertised you have to be on flat land with no trees, hills or buildings in the way. There are no repeaters that I know of that use GMRS so you're out of luck if you can't get a signal out to somebody that is listening. I would only rely on GMRS for short range comm with team members not for emergency comm. You might want to take a look at the "GPS and HAM Radio" forum. Getting your ticket is easy and cheap.

Try using a keychain float like boaters use to keep their keys from sinking when dropped in the water. That should work great.

The 76 floats.

I understand the the Lowrance units don't autoroute. If that's important, you may want to look closely at the unit again. Otherwise I hear that they are good. You won't find nearly as many posts about them though as you will abot Garmin or Magellian.

I recieved a response in two days on the issue of Mac compatability.

No temperture reading that I have ever found.

That's funny. Sorry for your loss. Good luck.

Yep, it's just a tool to accomplish a task... ...stick with what works for you! Me, I prefer Macs, but I keep and use both kinds as needed. I don't own an intel Mac (yet) but understand they will now run the Mac OS AND Windows... at the SAME time, we'll see! Talk about software compatibility.... Why don't you get simply a cheap old PC with Windows just to run these specials apps like mapsource ??? You don't need much horsepower and even a 3 year old computer will do. Emulation never really work. While I appreciate your logic, I would have a hard time finding more room for another computer in the house. My wife is not fond of giving up space for my technology as it is. My plan is to replace my 5 year old, still running GREAT 933 Mhz Mac with an Intel model and be able to run both OS X and Windows on the same machine. It really is time to replace the old Mac anyhow.

So is that how the unlock works on CN? You have to be connected to the net to install?

You can't go wrong with Amazon.

I am no expert, but I will say it again. CALL GARMIN. They may make it right for zero dollars.

Call Garmin and tell them what happened. Why pay again when they will almost certainly make it right?

or beer! Clearly Chevrolet (trucks) and Budweiser are better than the rest. Golden heifer urine is cheaper and probably tastes the same as Bud.

Very nice, thank you.