Japan...

[+snppla]

My friend is going to Japan. I'm letting him borrow my Garmin Etrex for fun. It should work just fine, right?

[Barrikady]

My friend is going to Japan. I'm letting him borrow my Garmin Etrex for fun. It should work just fine, right?

Sure, it can track the satellites anywhere on the planet. I am not familiar with the Etrex, but regardless if it has maps or not, it can still leave a breadcrumb trail of the route(s) your friend takes. When he gets home you can download the tracks to Google Earth...very cool.

Edited December 20, 2006 by Barrikady

[John E Cache]

My friend is going to Japan. I'm letting him borrow my Garmin Etrex for fun. It should work just fine, right?

It should work fine. I wish I would have had a GPS when I was there a long time ago. Their maps are very different and I could never figure out where I was. The orientation of maps and insets are random. I was told north isn't aligned up because it is bad luck. The streets were not named either.

 

There is a new PSP attachment GPS that isn't sold here, yet. It is supposed to be around $50. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-me...llow-220383.php

[+CanSolo]

If it handles WAAS, then turn it on, Japan has a system called MSAS that should do differential corrections

[steve 69]

you are forgeting what the g stands for in gps!

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

<never mind, bad joke>

Edited December 20, 2006 by BBWolf+3Pigs

[Suscrofa]

<never mind, bad joke>

 

It will work but of course will display everything in Japanese !

[+CanSolo]

Do you know how to restart the GPS, or at least tell it where in the world you are, so you don't have to wait as long for him to get a fix.

[+BlueDeuce]

Do you know how to restart the GPS, or at least tell it where in the world you are, so you don't have to wait as long for him to get a fix.

 

Just leave it on long enough for the Almanac to update.

 

Bake for 20 minutes or until done.

[+shelineclan]

Currently deployed to Okinawa, all the Caches here are WGS 84, and there are absolutely no problems with any GPS, I use a 60csx, some of my guys have Explorist, Etrexs, etc. There are no maps in my GPS, but if you have it programed or have software your square. I download to GSAK and then pull it into my GPS and PDA.

Edited December 20, 2006 by shelineclan

[kerecsen]

Currently deployed to Okinawa, all the Caches here are WGS 84, and there are absolutely no problems with any GPS, I use a 60csx, some of my guys have Explorist, Etrexs, etc. There are no maps in my GPS, but if you have it programed or have software your square.

 

I assume you know that you can download free Garmin maps for Japan. I'm not sure about the coverage on Okinawa, but major cities are actually pretty good. It proved to be very useful when I was visiting Tokyo...

 

http://www011.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mametaro/index-e.html

[+Jim W]

Thanks, for the Japan Map link, and yes it has Okinawa in the maps

[+WinChester2.0]

Snppla,

 

I used my Etrex yellow a couple weeks ago to find Nagoya Castle Micro. It worked with no problem - once it even displayed an accuracy value of 7 feet - and that was with WAAS turned off.

 

It will take awhile to aquire the first signal. Just be patient. Mine stumbled for around 10 minutes before it asked me "Have you moved hundreds of miles from last use?" and then another 10 minutes after. But it worked fine in the end.

[namiboy]

so i take it from the responses that when i go to japan next year that all i have to do is let my gpsr get the satellites there and then load in some coords and i'm off? i don't have to do anything different than i do here?