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Title: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Shotgun on October 10, 2004, 05:23:10 PM I want to get a GPS for My ATV. What do you guys reccomend? I don't want a chepo, but I don't think I need top of the line. What do you guys use? Thanks
2003 Kodiak 2x4 2004 Suzuki Eiger 4x4 Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: RTR_380/450R on October 10, 2004, 08:17:37 PM YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TO MUCH GPS TECHNOLOGY I ALWAYS SAY. BUT THE BEST THING TO DO IS TO GO ONLINE AND RESEARCH THE OPTIONS THAT EACH ONE OFFERS BASED ON YOUR NEEDS. ME PERSONALLY, I DO ALOT OF FRESH AND SALTWATER FISHING AND DIVING AS WELL AS RIDING- SO MINE WAS PURCHASED WITH THAT IN MIND AS WELL. BEST ADVICE I CAN GIVE
JT Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Muddbuggy on October 11, 2004, 04:50:54 AM The Etrex does everything I need it to do and its water proof. ;D small and compac, you can buy a handle bar mount for it which it very small. and it takes a beating and keeps on ticking.
Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Redgrizzly660 on October 11, 2004, 05:11:13 AM What ever you buy make sure u can down load maps from your computor and have avaliable software. I have topo 24 east which has all of the trails of ONF
Grizz Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Muddbuggy on October 11, 2004, 02:43:38 PM Grizz
what kind of GPS do you have? how big or small is it? I like the small size of my Etrex but I like the though of being able to down load maps too. kevin Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Flat_Out on October 11, 2004, 04:49:06 PM GPSMAP 76 here. Love it. Easy to use and downloadable maps from my PC. 299.00 at boatersworld. Also have the GPSMAP 182 in the boat. That is the greatest gps. To bad it is way to big to mount on the quad.
Eric Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Redgrizzly660 on October 11, 2004, 08:45:24 PM I just purchase a new GPS 276 C that can mount on the handle bar With a 128 Mb memory chip.
My old one is a boat GPS 168 w/ sounder I had it mounted across the handle bar worked great but I need more memory so I bought this new one. This one is kind of expensive but the 176 is a lot cheaper than mine but no color. U can find alot of mounts at GPScity.com Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Shotgun on October 11, 2004, 09:01:07 PM Wow the 276c is a bit pricey, I found it for $575. Thanks for all the help guys! Anybody else have any ideas let me know.I am going to get it for Christmas I hope.
Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Moose on October 23, 2004, 03:32:11 PM I got the new 76C, has mapping in collor, water proof and it floats. 115mb memory in the unit. The best hand held I have found. $409 from 4x4 books.com. $499.00 at West Marine.
Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: innocent_bystander on October 23, 2004, 10:29:36 PM I got the Garmin Rino 110. Real cheap, $150. You cant download maps, that sucks, but is is totally water proof and has a 2 way radio. Thank god its water proof, cuz just the other day, I had is mounted to my seat, it has a belt clip like a cell phone, and I took off my seat to get my tow strap out, refer to Pict Forum: Badluck Picts, to pull my buddies Big Bear out, and ploop, right in the water.
Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: kryppy on October 24, 2004, 08:19:16 AM The Etrex for $100 is an awesome unit. It doesn't load maps, but the screen is too small for it anyway. You will feel way better when you lose it in a mud hole. I know I'm glad my Etrex is lost at Macs fish camp instead of my ColorMap.
I have a Garmin 3+ that does load maps and is great in the mud as well, I paid $299 for it a while back so I don't like to put it in harms way much, but they are getting cheap on Ebay. Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: YFZ450-Tampa on October 24, 2004, 05:53:56 PM You can find the Magellan, the sport class is small, even float in water and you can download info from the pc and cost around $150 you can find it on many stores I got mine in Wall Mart it was the best price out of all of the stores I went to, I have had it for 2 years and I'm very happy with it.
Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: racemanfl on October 26, 2004, 10:00:57 AM I got Magellan Sport trac 150.00 plus 100.00 for maps.
Only has 8megs of memory,but that is big enough for atv uses Easy to read and figure out,waterprof and dust prof,software easy to use can save all your trips to computer and download waypoints back and forth,so it really has plenty of memory just download your trip and start a new one Jerry Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: Yamahonda41 on October 27, 2004, 08:47:39 PM I am on my 2nd Etrex-Vista. It has some nice features. I use it on trips with my laptop connected for a large moving map. The screen is small and hard to read for maps at least for my 40+ year old eyes. I crushed one when I rolled my Warrior. Sent it back to Garmin and they sent me a new one for the flat $125 repair fee. I paid $254 several months ago. Now if I was in the market I would get the 76C if I had the $$.
Cant go wrong with either. Title: Re: What GPS should I buy? Post by: HondaBeaterSFL on April 27, 2005, 10:02:50 PM cheap waterproof one
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