[aprssig] GPS Recommendations Needed

[Drew Baxter]

My Garmin GPSMAP76S has probably come down in price to that 
point.  It works very well for APRS and supports maps (24mb of 
memory) but does not support turn-by-turn directions.  When you say 
"for trips" I'd think you'd mean you want turn-by-turn directions.

Comparatively, he could buy a USB LT-20 Delorme with a copy of Street 
Atlas 2008 for 69.95.. 
.http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10122

Then he could buy a Deluo GPS for 60 bucks or so for his APRS 
needs.  I have one on the back deck of my car for my D700.  He'd be 
below 200 bucks between the two. :)

It depends on what the needs are.

--Droo, K1XVM


At 01:08 PM 8/10/2007, Dave Sloan wrote:

>Hello,
>
>    I've got a friend KC7GOL that wants to get a GPS for use with 
> APRS. He would also like to be able to have a screen so that he can 
> read the lat, long, and altitude. In addition he would like to be 
> able to use the same GPS for trips with maps loaded in it. He would 
> like to spend less than $200.00 for the GPS. Is there a GPS that 
> would meet these requirements? In stead of using the GPS for maps I 
> think that he should just use his laptop with one of the APRS 
> programs loaded. Then connect his GPS, Radio, TNC, and laptop all 
> together and he would have everything that he wants. Then the 
> requirements for the GPS would be: NEMA output, and a screen to 
> read the lat, long, and altitude. This would reduce the price of 
> the GPS considerably. Now any recommendations on which GPS he 
> should look at that might even make it in under his $200.00 price range?
>
>
>
>TNX & 73,
>
>Dave N0EOP