nav-hound Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Noobie here. Took forever to get avatar up and double forever to become authorized to post. Does anyone know if WAAS works in southern Belize waters? I am looking at Garmin Vista HCx with anchor drag feature so I stay out of trouble in my charter sailboat. Any suggestions appreciated. Quote Link to comment
+mpilchfamily Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I would think a dedicated nautical GPSr would be better then a hand held unit. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Noobie here. Took forever to get avatar up and double forever to become authorized to post. Does anyone know if WAAS works in southern Belize waters? I am looking at Garmin Vista HCx with anchor drag feature so I stay out of trouble in my charter sailboat. Any suggestions appreciated. While you may well be able to receive the WAAS signal in that area - I doubt the correction data would be valid there as the data is largely gathered from a network of stations across the USA and Canada. Quote Link to comment
nav-hound Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 MPF and Star: nautical GPSr is what? I wiki'd WAAS and saw a reddish-colored coverage map and the utilization pctg dropped way off down Belize way. Since I would be mainly in a small area, I'm thinking that the pctg cvg would still be high enough to give the anchor-drag feature credibility. Like... wake-up when the alarm sounds! Thanks for the responses... Quote Link to comment
+mpilchfamily Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I meant a Marine GPSr. One programed for boats and navigating waterways. Quote Link to comment
nav-hound Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 I meant a Marine GPSr. One programed for boats and navigating waterways. My question related to the lower case "r", of the term "GPSr" which I now surmise means "receiver". Sorry for the confusion. One sublety in the nautical/marine world is that buried in the bowels of the Vista HCx programming is something that swaps the device over to "marine" which means that it doesn't force one to take an embedded (included, loaded, pre-programmed, ??? road). I guess that means that courses followed are as defined between waypoints, until the travel commences. I have a lot to learn. I'll have to call Garmin to get the low-down on WAAS in Belize fringe area. Quote Link to comment
+Cardinal Red Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 (edited) I meant a Marine GPSr. One programed for boats and navigating waterways. My question related to the lower case "r", of the term "GPSr" which I now surmise means "receiver". Sorry for the confusion. One sublety in the nautical/marine world is that buried in the bowels of the Vista HCx programming is something that swaps the device over to "marine" which means that it doesn't force one to take an embedded (included, loaded, pre-programmed, ??? road). I guess that means that courses followed are as defined between waypoints, until the travel commences. I have a lot to learn. I'll have to call Garmin to get the low-down on WAAS in Belize fringe area. How much anchor drag can you tolerate till you need an alarm generated? I would think you could still get reasonable performance without WAAS. It's not like you are landing on a runway. But if you do get a response from Garmin let us know what they had to say. Edited March 26, 2011 by Cardinal Red Quote Link to comment
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