Hand Held GPS

[Shropfisher]

I am looking to upgrade my old HH GPS, so can any one advise what they are using and the pro's & cons of each model, I know we don't like to admit we bought the wrong thing, but some times you get one model and only after playing with it realise that it dfoes not tick all the boxes, or maybe technology has just overtaken our purchase ( hence the upgrade ).

[pollocks]

I don't much about GPS but was thinking I might get one in the future. Out of interest what is the model you've got that doesn't do what you want?

[TomBettle]

Can't remember the model number Shropshire, but there is an excellent new Garmin unit. It's a very small screen, but it is a workable colour chartplotter.

I have the little Garmin handheld basic GPS at the moment and yes it is pretty tricky to make sense of plane old numbers alone. The new plotter version, in colour seems tip top.

Tom

[Jonny 3 rods]

A cycling nut friend of mine has just bought a garmin 605. Not sure what it would be like at sea, but if you are a walker or cyclist its the dogs. Accurate to within 19 feet.He paid £200 for it.
I was thinking of getting a Nokia n95 mobile phone, that seems to have good GPS information.
Also try http://www.globalpositioningsystems....handhelds.html seem to be loads.

[Shropfisher]

Cheers guys, I have sold the old model Magdellan for pretty much the same reason you mention Tom, basic black & white numbers only and a directional arrow, not best idea for some one of shall we we say mature in years getting to be blind as a bat.
The gadget show did a great test on some units this week, Satmap came out tops by far, The Garmin came second and the Magdellan did not complete the test. but this was for over land, ideally something like it with chart capability is what I was looking for. I will check out the Garmin web site

[IANK]

I recently bought a Lowrance i finder phd for £80 from JK Max Navigation. They seem to have a good selection of Lowrance HH gps on seriously good offers at the moment.

see www.jkmax.co.uk

[ebgb]

I've had a few Magellans over the years, got a meridian platimum as a back up now, cannot fault it in any way at

basically its a full chartplotter, with all the same functions and screens you'd see on normal fixed one - highway/charts/instruments etc

what clinches it for me is the mapsend Bluenav software, every chart in europe is on the cd and they are all unlocked and useable, unlike the garmin bluechart where you need to buy extra unlock codes, conenct to pc and bung you're charts on, copy save create waypoints etc etc, so all you planning then load it up to the unit

its totally waterproof and also floats, well rubberised and has been dropped, and bounced around more times than I can remember