+GOT GPS? Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 To Date, I have bought: Magellan: 4000XL , GPS315 , Platinum Garmin: III, III+, V, V, eMap, Vista That was nine total GPS units, that I bought. I still have: III, V, V, Platinum, and the GPS315 I tried a Magellan ColorTrak GPS unit but retured it, because it was junk(Bad case design(broken)) -------------------------------------------------- My Old posts as Geoffrey My Current Post as GOT GPS? My profile My Home Page about what is GPS Quote Link to comment
+Tahoe Skier5000 Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 hahaha. I thought I was crazy having three GPS's but I guess you are the craziest lol I have: 2 Garmin Etrex Yellows 1 Garmin Legend Using Opera 7.1 Quote Link to comment
+Team Lyons Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 I have two gpsr's a Yellow Etrex and a V. Quote Link to comment
SergZak Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 I currently own: 1 Magellan GPS315 1 Magellan MAP330 1 Magellan Meridian Gold (likely my last Magellan unit) 2 eMaps 1 eTrex Vista 1 GPSMAP 76S 2 GPS Vs Quote Link to comment
+Searching_ut Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 Magellan 2000 eMap GIII+ 1 eTrex yellow for myself, 2 as gifts 1 Legend for myself, 1 as gift 1 Vista as a gift 1 sportrak map for myself, 1 as gift Globalsat BC 307 CF GPS unit Still own, GIII+, Legend, sportrak Map, BC 307 Total 8 for personal use, 4 as gifts Quote Link to comment
+Rubberhead Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 Garmin 38 - Sold with boat Garmin 128 - Sold on ebay Garmin Mariner (Venture) - Sold to Brother-in-law Garmin Camo - given to a deer hunting dad Garmin Legend - still own Garmin GPSmap 162 - Mounted on my boat I am purchasing an eTrex Summit or Vista on Monday. Ducks - Flying, great tasting, geocaches of meat Quote Link to comment
+wickedsprint Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 Bought a Garmin V, a lowrance I-finder(sold it), an etrex Vista, and a magellan 315(sold it to roomate), looking to get a Garmin III pilot(not the street pilot, has the same case as the Garmin V) Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 Guys/Gals: Why multiple of the same unit? For you and your spouse? And why not sell the units? I'm hoping you don't all have all those GPS units lying around - someone will buy your leftovers on eBay and probably for more then you think - eBay makes people stupid! Quote Link to comment
+infosponge Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 I'm glad I'm not the "worst offender" here. - Magellan MAP 410, my first GPS. Mapping, no WAAS, eats batteries like crazy. Still works. - Magellan Meridian (mine, perhaps soon to be my daughter's) - Magellan Meridian (spouses) - Navitrak DNA. - Magellan Meridian Platinum (my newest toy) - loaded with the Marine basemap, so it's a MeriMariPlati? http://www.tampabaygeocaching.com Quote Link to comment
+st_richardson Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 Gee... I thought my Vista and 2 Rino 120s would put me in the lead. You guys must sleep with your GPS units. My daughter has a Legend so we have 4 when we travel. I have all the Garmin maps, also. Quote Link to comment
+Tahoe Skier5000 Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DavidL:Guys/Gals: Why multiple of the same unit? For you and your spouse? And why not sell the units? Lot's of reasons. When I take friends along geocaching who don't have GPS's, they can borrow my extra gps. Also, I can use the second GPS as a "slave" if you will. I can use it normally without the worry of it getting scratched or beaten. Using Opera 7.1 Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 quote:Originally posted by GOT GPS?:To Date, I have bought: Magellan: 4000XL , GPS315 , Platinum Garmin: III, III+, V, V, eMap, Vista That was nine total GPS units, that I bought. I still have: III, V, V, Platinum, and the GPS315 I tried a Magellan ColorTrak GPS unit but retured it, because it was junk(Bad case design(broken)) I'm thinking you can take the Question mark off your moniker by now. Quote Link to comment
valenrandy Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Between my father and I, we purchased 10 meridians for xmas last year, 5 yellow and 5 greens as gifts to family in Mexico. They found great uses for them out in the ranch and mountains. I currently own a meri yellow with a 512mb sd card and my baby map330 which I trust the most for its reliability. I also had a garmin gps 12, which was great, and also a garmin 2 plus I believe? Then the gps companion for the visor was good too. Those 3 are gone. Only m330 and meridian left. So could you say 15? Or just 2 since 10 were gifts and 3 were sold.? Either way I’m happy with my inventory! ValenRandy Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 1. Mag SporTrak Color 2. Mag GPS315 3. Gar iQue I only use the first 2 for caching, the third for driving to the caches. I'd like to pick up a Legend sometime to see how well it works compared to the two Magellans. ~robert (that's mrkablooey, not kablooey) The Maryland Geocaching Society www.mdgps.net Quote Link to comment
topografix Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 I should outsource my GPS compatibility testing to some of you! Here's my life-list of GPS units. I still have all of them except the Garmin 12, Magellan 315, and one of the Ventures. The Venture stays on my mountain bike. The Rinos get used more as radios than as GPS receivers. I use the 76 as my all-purpose GPS. Most of the rest never leave the office. Garmin GPS 38Garmin GPS 12Garmin eTrexGarmin eTrex Venture (two)Garmin Rino 110 (two)Garmin GPS 76Magellan PioneerMagellan 315Magellan Meridian GPSLowrance GM-100Lowrance iFinderBrunton MNSEPSON CF cardNAVMAN sleeve for iPaq -- Dan Foster TopoGrafix: GPS Software, Waypoints, and Maps http://www.topografix.com/ Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted July 28, 2003 Author Share Posted July 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DavidL:Guys/Gals: Why multiple of the same unit? For you and your spouse? And why not sell the units? I'm hoping you don't all have all those GPS units lying around - someone will buy your leftovers on eBay and probably for more then you think - eBay makes people stupid! The two GPS V's are my most important ones, and I can use both of these with my laptop, as I did on my Lakeland Florida trip (July 19-26). I had the memory of the new GPS V crammed with all the Auto-Routing map data that I could get in it for the Driving part. My old GPS V I had all the map data that I could get in it, without the Autorouting data, and this made room for the Airports on the old GPS V. I used the old GPS V for my running, and flying. With my Laptop, I downloaded data from each GPS during the trip, but also could have changed the loaded maps at any time. I was planning on doing Battery, and Accuracy expiriments with all the GPS units, but I could get rid of the old GPS III, and the Magellans, because of their poor tracklogging, and lack of a good Trip computer page, like the Garmins have. The Platinum is neat, but I find that I can get by with just the two GPS V's. My sister had the III, lost my 4000XL, but has my Vista. The eMap was a Gift to my dad. The IIIplus was loaned to a friend. -------------------------------------------------- My Old posts as Geoffrey My Current Post as GOT GPS? My profile My Home Page about what is GPS Quote Link to comment
+wickedsprint Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 when you say flying, are you actually navigating off your GPS V while you fly the plane, or do you mean looking at the screen when flying commercial? I ask because a dedicated GIII pilot (same case) is the same price as a V and does an infinitely better job in an aircraft since it has every airport, navaid and intersection available. Soon to be my next purchase, instead of loading 500 airports into my V, I can just use the 20000 already loaded in the dadgum II pilot, and as mentioned, navaids galore...the jeppessen database is pretty intensive. Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted July 31, 2003 Author Share Posted July 31, 2003 Used the GPS V on South West Airlines, and a Platinum. I had maps of the airports on the GPS V, but of course I couldn't put Navaids on the GPS, that would be neat if I could. I would like to get back to flying, but don't have the money or energy to do the lessons right now. -------------------------------------------------- My Old posts as Geoffrey My Current Post as GOT GPS? My profile My Home Page about what is GPS Quote Link to comment
+Wadcutter Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 I've bought 33. 32 of them were all the same model. I bought my Garmin 12MAP and 32 pluggers for my military unit. Does that count? Quote Link to comment
+Woodbutcher68 Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 I can only look at one at a time, so that's all I have. Three different mounting brackets though. Jeep, bike and boat. Maps?!? I don't need no stinking maps! I got coordinates! There's a fine line between Geocaching and mental illness, I just not sure which side of the line I'm on! Quote Link to comment
+wickedsprint Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 Actually you CAN put navaids, as well as any airport or the like, eithere within a specified distance from a reference station, or along a route, or radius from several stations, email me at afmeroth@yahoo.com if you need any help with this. I loaded every airport and naviad within 475 miles of my air base within 10 minutes into my vista, like almost 900 waypoints!! http://131.238.38.204/~sarangan/aviation/garmin/index.html Quote Link to comment
greatwhite6 Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 I started with the Magellan 4000xl around 5 years ago. Used the crap out of it and finally upgraded last year to the Magellan yellow. Works awesome for cacheing, fishing and boating around the Channel Islands. 2 in 6 years and both Magellan, I hate the french, but they make a decent GPS. Any belief worth having must survive doubt. Quote Link to comment
+Cache Viking Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Wow 9 GPS units and to think my wife just gave me that look when I replaced my III+ with a V. She was OK with it when she heard I had already sold the III+ . I think I will have the V for a bit. Quote Link to comment
+Cache Buccaneers Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 I have purchased Garmin only GPS III GPS IIIplus GPS V Etrex Vista geco 201 Quote Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Seeing some of the numbers I have seen posted, I am pretty sure mine is not in the "unusually high" category. (Although BD would differ with that opinion). 2 GPS III+ 1 GPS V 3 eTrex Yellows Understand however, 5 people in the house Geocache to some degree.Also, I got the eTrexs when Walmart had them for $50 a couple of months ago. Quote Link to comment
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