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Garmin Foretrex 101 -- great cheap GPS

 
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Hopperdhh(at)aol.com
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:21 am    Post subject: Garmin Foretrex 101 -- great cheap GPS Reply with quote
I hesitate to post this to these sophisticated lists, but I can't resist!

Last week I bought a Garmin Foretrex 101 GPS at ALDI (a grocery store) for $59.95. It will operate about 15 hours on two AAA batteries and weighs about 3 ounces, and has a 12 channel receiver with WAAS. It has NEMA out which means it could conceivably send data to an autopilot -- I don't have the serial cable to try this yet.

Yesterday I tried it out in my RV-7A on a 50 mile trip. Wow!  It worked perfectly. You have to program the airports manually out of the Airport Directory, but you can assign an airplane icon and name them with the identifiers, etc. It will hold up to 500 waypoints. You can set the units to NAUTICAL for speed and distance. It may be possible to download a data base from a PC since it has the serial interface.

This is an amazing little GPS.

Dan Hopper
Walton, IN

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