[pct-l] GPS Recommendations

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, Herb,



Over the years my last four GPSs have been Garmin.  With them I have used
TOPO on five different CPUs and with two different interface cables – a
serial-port cable and a USB cable.  The various permutations of that has
worked without a glitch with one exception:  The interface slide-socket of
an eTrex Venture was quite tight and I had to be really careful to push hard
to get the cable end to seat and make contact.



I don’t know how you use a GPS but I like them basic and light so I use a
little Geko-201.  Your wants and needs may vary.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT -- 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM, herbstroh at charter.net <
herbstroh at charter.net> wrote:

> I have an old Garmin Vista GPS unit that has finally bitten the dust. My
> software is the National Geographic TOPO software. The Garmin worked ok,
> but occassionaly did not mesh with TOPO.
>
> Any recommendations on a new, reasonably light unit that works easily with
> TOPO?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Herb
>
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