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rlyindra

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  1. I have a like new 62S with a screen protector, car kit and a 4gb sd card. $380 OBO
  2. I do not know, he must have gotten a few when this sale was going on. It was in the Black Friday post and they were at GPScity for that price. Nice job in buying low and waiting for it to go up.
  3. I have a like new unit that I need to sell. It comes with everything that it did new. Need the cash and have a PN-40 for caching. $275 shipped OBO. Thanks
  4. Pretty silly to use this forum to buy or sell anything, would be nice if Groundspeak just eliminated it altogether to protect their users. There are enough other ways to buy/sell used gps online of otherwise there is no point to having this forum section. I have bought enough items off of here and it is great. If you want to hagle do like I do and PM the person. If you want to tell them about a price to high use the PM and not in open forums.
  5. I tried it with Amazon awhile back and was told to send it back and rebuy it. I do not know if this is still the way they do it. JR Electornics will do it. Thanks
  6. Is it the same as these units for accuracy and have some of if any bugs been worked out. I have a PN-40 and it is very accurate and I think it is worth it to have the 3-axis compass. This is for a freind and she has not decided on the Delorme. One issue she likes is when doing a multi and changing the coords. On the Garmins you can do this but you have to go to a different page for the info, right. Thanks
  7. I received a reply. Basically, the OP is waiting for the highest "bidder" to give their price and will make a decision on Friday who has "won" the item. Seems to me the OP should have posted on Ebay instead of here. Didn't think this was Ebay. 250 gets it tonight I guess it is Ebay, starts at $220 and now $250? $279 shipped NIB http://www.ems.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3781189 And no Ebay bidding.
  8. I received a reply. Basically, the OP is waiting for the highest "bidder" to give their price and will make a decision on Friday who has "won" the item. Seems to me the OP should have posted on Ebay instead of here. Didn't think this was Ebay. 250 gets it tonight I guess it is Ebay, starts at $220 and now $250?
  9. To be honest, I haven't noticed any significant difference in accuracy with most modern units. The PN-40 seems to filter it's position data a fair amount, making it quite steady. One thing I have noticed is that the PN-40 I can‘t say it‘s any more accurate though, just that it's pretty optimistic in it's guesses. I haven’t seen any consumer grade units so far that I’d say were any better accuracy wise than the PN-40, and I can’t really say I’ve seen anything other than the filtering that make it stand out as more accurate either. Tomorrow morning I intend to head out on a short 6 mile hike in an area that drives GPS receivers nuts. I’ll post if I notice anything significant there. Straight up if your primary GPS use is geocaching, the PN-40 is about as good as it gets right now. For some other outdoor types of adventure, I think there are better choices. You have used both for caching and do take you there? does the Dakota float more than the -40? I have heard that it is as good but when you get close it seams to start floating around where the -40 is pretty much straight to it. In my other posting, the drift, or dancing is what I tried to show with the boardwalk tracks. The Dakota does dance around a little more in somewhere around a 10 foot or so circle. As a result, the closer you get to ground zero while navigating with the compass, the more you’ll notice a bit of dancing, as a result of the Dakota changing it's estimation of where it is by a few feet. It generally starts in the last 50 feet or so, and is more noticeable the closer you get. With the PN-40, the indication you get is more stable, but not necessarily more accurate which you’ll find if you back out from what it says is ground zero, circle around about 100 feet out, then come in from a different direction it will give you a nice steady ground zero reading, but the ground zero will be noticeably different than what you were at the first time. With either unit I find I end up in pretty much the same spot, and with either unit, the accuracy/repeatability varies significantly with terrain, tree cover etc. Myself, I somewhat prefer the dancing around sort of behavior because I’ve learned to read that over the years as a much more accurate EPE indication than the worthless EPE figures the GPS receivers provide. That said, most of my reception issues are terrain related, meaning Multipath is my most likely position accuracy problem. If you’re in flatter terrain, where trees are your only real concern, you’re probably not going to have to worry about anywhere near the same possibility of accuracy issues, and would probably find the dancing to be nothing but an annoyance. As for my canyon hike this morning, thanks to lots of rain, I’m goofing off on the computer instead of getting some much needed exercise. Track log comparisons for the tough stuff are still on hold. I am looking to get a new GPS and am stuck between the -40 and the Dakota. I too will be using it for caching as the main use. Which then would you go for? I have an old Vista CX and have Topo loaded on my computer already so it would not be an exrta expense for mapping. I think the Areals are neat but not needed. Thanks
  10. So you like the maps on the Dakota better than the -40 but would rather use the -40 for street navigation? And the accuracy and the compass, better, same or worse than the -40? I know you only had it for a very short time. Thanks The map thing does indeed sound pretty contradictory when I read it back, but here is where I see things. To start with, Maps are regional, so this might not apply to everyone. That said, I’ve found that for just about everywhere I’ve gone, the CN maps are more up to date, and quite a bit more accurate than the street data available in Delormes TOPO product. Routing tends to be better with the Garmin products as well, making it the obvious choice for navigation, with one major exception: If you’re using the Dakota with the maps in a vehicle, accessing that great navigation data is difficult at best. Mounting the Dakota in such a way that I can see it while turning and navigating through variations of lighting is all but impossible. As a result, I lose the ability to see the display without significant difficulty, and turns etc. aren’t going to jump out at me immediately so that I’m going to see them. You end up needing to spend too much time staring at the GPS unit and trying to access the data rather than paying attention to the road. Because of the display issue, despite great data, I can’t necessarily access it real time, making the device of little use to me for street navigation in a vehicle. With the PN on the other hand, more often than not a quick glance is all it takes to see the maps when in the vehicle, Thus, while the maps aren’t as good, they are at least available to me. My thoughts are that a so so map that is available is better than a good map that isn’t. If your dash layout, or eyes are such that you can see the Dakota while driving, It would be a better choice. That said, I’m not planning to use either for street use, and will stick to my Streetpilots and Nuvi. Good maps and voice make things a whole lot better here. Finally, despite the difficulty with seeing the Dakota in my vehicle, I find I have no problems with it when handheld. It’s kind of like my hand instinctively turns it to where I don’t have glare, and the existing light makes the display quite readable. Outdoors, even in mixed lighting the display is actually quite good, it’s just that the sweet spot of an angle required to make it viewable isn’t very big, and changes with changes to the lighting angle. With the unit in my hand, dealing with the tilt adjustments necessary to allow me to see the display adequately isn’t an issue to me. So far, I prefer the Dakota for hand held use, but this is an area where Garmins topo maps aren’t necessarily much of an improvement if at all, which means neither unit really has an edge over the other. It’s just a preference thing. Regarding the compass, both units are much better and more accurate than the 2 axis counterparts in most other units in my opinion. The PN and Dakota compasses seem quite comparable in accuracy to one another, and quite accurate when compared to a magnetic compass, at least when held somewhat level. You do notice a few degrees of variation when you tilt them significantly, but they seem to even handle that pretty well. The Dakota compass appears to be somewhat more filtered, and is very smooth and stable in it’s rotation, but not necessarily more accurate from what I’ve seen. The Dakota’s loss of compass calibration issue has me a bit concerned though because I don’t know if it’s a software or hardware issue. Do you think that it is as accurate as the -40?
  11. tried to reply but it would not let me. Sent you an e-mail
  12. I am really thinking about selling my PN-40 with a 8GB SD card and a CR-V3 battery and Topo 8.0. It is 2 months old and has had a screen protector on it from day one. I have 2 and need the money. I am not sure as to what a good price would be. Make me an offer. Thanks
  13. I have a Nuvi 205W and was thinking about selling it and getting a XOG. Are the road mapping about the same and what about caching? I also have 2 PN-40's but my wife likes the Nuvi for driving. It would be a backup unit for caching. Thanks
  14. I have it listed here so you can make me an offer
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