Except for those folks that do not have the ability to work such
complicated navigating devices, the gps111+ is a nice GPS. if anyone wants
to give me their old beat up, dont work no more, 3+'s lemme know :-)
I cached with a Street Pilot for quite some time. Ya REALLY have to take
a compass with ya when using these two GPSR's for geocaching.
glenn :-)
I've had a 3+ for over a year. I found 250 caches with it, but it was hard. I agree 100% with your interpetation of it's performance. It work great in the car but foot navigation can be difficult. Kono has a 3, no plus and he has the same issues too. A few montha ago, my 3+ became unusable for setting up geocaches. Ask anyone who hunted the 8 kiddy caches at the spring picnic. I now use the basic yellow etrex model and have found it to be a nice caching gps.
Barramus N 38° 25.081' W 90° 42.823'
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Kinder" <jkinder@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:16 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Garmin GPSIII+ performance
> Anyone use a GPSIII+? I went geocaching with someone who had a Garmin > GPSIII+ while I used my Garmin Etrex Legend. While driving, both units > tracked position and bearing to waypoints the same and seemed identical in > responsivness. However, as soon as we stopped and got out of the car there > was extreme differences. The Legend would point to the cache and off I'd go. > The GPSIII+, however was just plain unacceptably sluggish. It would > sometimes take minutes (really) for it to come to its senses and point in > the right direction. > > Both units had battery saver modes "off" so they were updating once per > second, and both were acquiring the same sattelites and had comparable > accuracies. Comparions were with units out in the open with unobstructed > view of the sky. > > Bottom line was the GPSIII+ wasn't even in the same league when walking > slowy with it - yet they seemed identical when traveling fast by car. Bigest > ovservation is GPSIII+ seemed to take a long time makng sense of the > transition from moving fast in a car to moving slow by foot. > > Anyone had experience with a GPSIII+? Is what I describe above typical for > this unit? > > John (dj&r) > > **************************************************************************** ************************ > Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com > Mail List & Archive Info. > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > Msg. of the day, "The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict." > > **************************************************************************** ************************* > > >
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