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The GPSMAP 196 is a powerful aviation portable that acts like a panel but goes from cockpit to land to water without missing a beat. With it is crisp, grayscale screen, the 196 is an lowpriced introduction to Garmin's portable aviation products.

An lowpriced introduction to Garmin's portable aviation products.

Use the Panel Page to view the HSI, your bearing to the course, and other selective information such as speed, altitude, and ETA.

Features a real-time moving map that may do much more than just plot your course.

Customize the pages to show what you want, and adjust the page layout and data fields.

Enhance Situational Awareness
The WAAS-capable GPSMAP 196 has elaborate map graphics, HSI steering guidance, Jeppesen database and all the other pilot-friendly features you�ve come to suppose from Garmin. Steering guidance is without doubt or question staged through a graphic HSI with VNAV indicator supplying a full range of horizontal and vertical awareness. Extended runway centerlines help orient pilots to the runway. The 196 even supports a comprehensive U.S. database of obstacles (upgradeable thru the Internet) to help you see and refrain from high-rise structural hazards in the vicinity of your flight path.

View Images in Sharp Detail
GPSMAP 196 features a 320 x 240 pixel, 12-level grayscale display with particular solution and contrast. This display with backlighting showcases crisp graphics which redraw with unbelievable speed thanks to a fast processor.

Automate Your Logbook
A built-in logbook tracks your flying hours and mechanically records departure and arrival locations. When employed with Garmin's free logbook software FlightBook, this feature simplifies record keeping. Flightbook software allows you to create, manage, analyze, save and print flight info from GPSMAP 196's logbook.

Navigate by Air, Land or Sea
Simply press a button to switch GPSMAP 196 to automotive or marine mode. The 196 comes with a built-in routable basemap. Add optional MapSource elaborate street maps for street navigation. Or, for a outstanding day on the water, custommake the waterproof 196 with optional marine cartography. Easily add elaborate maps with plug and play Garmin data cards.

Jeppesen Database Information
The GPSMAP 196 includes an internal Jeppesen database that provides emplacement and facility data for thousands of airports, VORs, NDBs, and more. Updates to the Jeppesen database are available each 28 days online. The following data is provided:

• Airport--Identifier, facility name, city/state/country, latitude/longitude, field elevation, available fuel types, runway designations and layout, runway surface, runway length, runway width, runway lighting, communication frequencies, and published approaches.
• Weather--Frequencies affiliated with an airport (ASOS, ATIS, and AWOS).
• VORs--Identifier, facility name, city/state/country, emplacement (latitude/longitude), frequency, service volume (high, low, terminal), and type (such as VOR-DME, TACAN, and VORTAC).
• NDBs--Identifier, facility name, city/state/country, emplacement (latitude/longitude), and frequency.
• Intersections--identifier, nearest VOR, radial and distance from nearest VOR, emplacement (latitude/longitude), and region/country.
• ARTCC--Air Route Traffic Control Centers.
• Airspace--boundaries (Class B, Class C, Control Zones, SUAs, and MOAs), controlling agency, and vertical boundaries.
• FSS--Flight Service Stations.

Pre-Loaded Pacific Autoroute Basemap
The Pacific Autoroute Highway basemap includes Asia, Australia, and Oceania, and covers an area from E60 to E180 Longitude, S60 to N75 Latitude.

Standard map coverage includes:

• Oceans, rivers, lakes and major streams
• Principal cities and littler cities and towns
• Major and indispensable highways, territorial arterials, and a heap of local roads
• Political boundaries (state and global borders)
• Large Urban areas (greater than 50K)
• More elaborated coastline with a heap of littler islands
• Railroads
• Airports

What's in the Box
Garmin GPSMAP 196 with Pacific Autoroute Basemap, Free Jeppesen Update Certificate, Yoke Mount, Automotive Mount, Vehicle Power Cable, Low-Profile Remote GPS Antenna, PC Interface Cable, Owner's Manual, Quick Reference Guide

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0 of 0 humans found the following review helpful.
Covers it all!
By jalu
Great instruction DVD for owners of these Garmin GPS's, saves time and gets you started on the right "track". I would recomend this to any person with a Garmin.

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Covers it all!
By jalu
Great instruction DVD for owners of these Garmin GPS's, saves time and gets you started on the right "track". I would recomend this to anybody with a Garmin.

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eTrex Venture HC is an necessary for any outdoor excursion. It features a high-sensitivity GPS receiver for peak performance in any environs and includes 24 megabytes (MB) of internal memory, a elaborate basemap and crisp color screen.

An necessary for any outdoor excursion.

The H series marries high-sensitivity GPS with full-featured mapping, for a superb portable receiver.

Basemap holds lakes, rivers, cities, interstates, national and state highways and coastlines.

Make trip planning simple for your next outdoor adventure with the included MapSource Trip and Waypoint Manager.

Proven Performance and Full-Featured Mapping

Clear Reception
The Garmin eTrex Venture HC helps you navigate through the toughest terrain. The unit is equipped with a high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, which locates your position quickly and incisively and maintains it is GPS emplacement even in heavy cover and deep canyons. The vantage is clear: whether you're traipsing through thick woods or strolling near tall buildings and trees, you may count on the Venture HC to support you find your way when you need it the most.

Intuitive Operation
At the same time, the Venture HC's easy-to-use menu lets you create and view waypoints (up to 500), save and view 10 track logs, access set up features, and more. It even offers 24 MB of internal memory and a elaborated basemap, so you may load waypoints and routes from the included MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager software and add map detail from Garmin's entire line of optional MapSource mapping products.

Besides appreciating it is little size, outdoorsmen will also be happy with the Venture HC's distinguishable button layout, with five buttons located on either side of the unit. The gains of this design are twofold: First, the Venture HC is a breeze to operate with just one hand, and, second, with the buttons on both sides of the unit, the bulk of the front is committed to the 256-color, sunlight-readable TFT display. This makes it easy to distinguish map details disregarding of the time of day.

Comprehensive Basemap
The Venture HC's Americas Recreational basemap, meanwhile, holds lakes, rivers, cities, interstates, national and state highways, railroads, and coastlines--in short, a host of helpful details for your outdoor adventures.

The map covers the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America.

And More...
Other details include an IPX7 waterproof housing, a built-in patch antenna, a USB interface, a hunt/fish calendar, sun and moon information, and a geocaching mode.

The Venture HC, which runs for up to 14 hours on a pair of AA batteries (not included), measures 2.2 by 4.2 by 1.2 inches (W x H x D) and is backed by a one-year warranty.

Trip and Waypoint Manager

Make trip planning simple for your next outdoor adventure with the included MapSource Trip and Waypoint Manager. This computer software allows you to transfer waypoints, routes and tracks amid your Garmin device and your computer. For reference, Trip and Waypoint Manager provides popular global maps that include interstates, motorways, political boundaries, necessary cities and towns, oceans and other general reference details to place your GPS info in context.

What's in the Box

eTrex Venture HC, Basemap, MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager Software, USB Cable, Wrist Strap, Quick Start Guide, User's Manual.

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603 of 611 persons found the following review helpful.
An outdoor GPS receiver as revolutionary as the primary eTrex
By ideas
Before buying this new Venture HC, I had expended some hours trekking with assorted of the original eTrex models over the years. I think it's reasonable to say that while the conception of the introductory eTrex was great, the execution was ofttimes disappointing.

It disappoints no more. The Venture HC is the eTrex perfected. It remedies almost each shortcoming that plagued the basi models. The new high-sensitivity receiver is amazingly effective. Countless times I've stood in wide open spaces cursing my old eTrex because it wouldn't acquire a single satellite. Last night I turned on the Venture HC on the bottom floor of my two story house, and it locked onto 8 satellites...through the roof and the upper floor! No more "need a clear view of the sky" messages. Amazing.

The old monochrome display has become color, and the user interface is now substantially more intuitive, while adding even more functionality. The cable, which was serial on former models, has been upgraded to USB, another welcome improvement. The case is somewhat wider than before, but the design bears a strong resemblance to the initial eTrex.

A basemap is included but it's just that - basic. It shows the greatest highways, bodies of water, and has a heap of fixed capability to display highway exit services. If you need turn-by-turn street directions, an eTrex is not for you. This is a GPS receiver unfeigned to Garmin's outdoor GPS heritage.

Promised battery life (14 hours) is near the bottom of the range when equated to the existent eTrex models, but is still utterly adequate and has posed no problems.

One weakness that remains is Garmin's waypoint manager PC software. It has the feel and functionality of a software product freed circa 1994. Garmin could surely manufacture a better PC interface. For $49 you may buy ExpertGPS from Topografix, or download the free version (EasyGPS)from their website. Either is far more functional than the Garmin OEM software.

Still, the software criticism is a quibble. The Venture HC itself is great. It is a market altering product that renders all former eTrex models (and a great deal of competitors) obsolete. Finally, an lowcost outdoor GPS receiver that I may wholeheartedly recommend.

240 of 244 persons found the following review helpful.
Great geocaching unit at a good price (with notes for Mac users)
By Ken A. Huth
I was exclusively chessed off at Magellan when my Explorist 100 passed away under warranty and they refused to help or repair it (this was a new unit!). So I only considered Garmin based on liking my car unit.

Mac Users:
It's a bit tricky, but I am capable to use the USB cable and the 'send to Garmin' to mechanically load waypoints from geocaching.com. One warning is that they have a Mac firmware web updater and it's very new and froze on my undertake to use it, which blanked my unit. [...]. I did the update for this unit on a friends PC and it went fine.

There are a good deal of Mac caching software, but none of them are working for me with this unit. So keep that in mind if you genuinely want to go beyond the web waypoint downloads. That's a bummer, since Maccaching and GeoJournal look like they'd be great.

The included software does not work on a Mac, so ignore that CD. From the Garmin site, you may download the plugin for Mac to make Safari conscious of the unit so you may do the "send to Garmin' trick. They likewise have the Mac version of their WebUpdater (the one that hosed my introductory unit) on their site. Finally, you don't need any USB drivers for Tiger or Leopard OSX, so don't worry regarding them only being for Windows on the Garmin site.

Usage:
Crazy fast turn on and acquiring satellites. We are thrilled that we may turn it on in the car and it will commence to pick up satellites right away. Our Magellin (an cheap 100 unit) would take awhile even outside in cloudcover.

It likewise seems to save all the time, as the shutdown is very fast, with no 'saving' note like our Magellin made us wait for.

I guess our only complaint is that we like to use the backlight a lot and that sucks batteries. It's winter now, and so a good deal of days and locatings are dim, and without the backlight, the unit may be pretty dim to read. It takes 2 AA's. It likewise has a system pref for the type of battery you use (Alkaline, NiMH or LiOn), why? Maybe to only USB charge when they are NiMH's?? But do not forget to set that to the rectify type.

We in truth love automati loading the coordinates. And even with the free account on Geocaching.com, we get the cache name, GC# and coordinates. That saves tons of time and mistakes. We find ourselves loading up any cache that interests us, just in case.

Accuracy:
The unit seems right on. Our other unit would commonly be more like 20-30 feet exact in the woods, and this one led us right to the cache and showed 16' accuracy at that point underneath normal tree cover. It likewise refreshes more many times than our old unit, so it feels more responsive. No more going 20 feet and then seeing that the arrow just didn't update to show we were going the defective way, or overshot.

Build:
It seems solid and took our last rainy hike well. The back has a bit of a gap, but the seal ought to lock in fine. It uses the 'D' lock, so just half a twist to lock and unlock, which is fast and cherished on a cold cache while altering batteries. We always had to dig to get the Magellin's ring out and turning to pop the back.

Thumb toggle:
If you've applied the old Garmin's with button input, the toggle on the front is actually welcomed. We zip through data entry and you push the toggle in to receive an entry. It's also a shortcut to Mark your current emplacement (holding down the toggle button). Another tip is that keeping down the lower left button brings up the 'Find' menu quickly.

Speed:
One thing I cited was that when I went just one setting more on 'detail' for the maps, it in truth cut the redraw speed (which is a tad slow to begin with), so that was disappointing.

Hope that helps someone and happy caching!
for Team Spiderweb4-2

165 of 167 humans found the following review helpful.
Great for geocaching, astronomy!
By Serge van Neck
I got this unit after much exploration into dissimilar brands and, after settling on Garmin, dissimilar models. It's a great all-around GPS at a great price. It's my first, so I can't comment on the increased sensitivity of the HC chip, but I get a great deal of coverage inside my house, and when I step outside the accuracy goes to in regards to 9'. I would have liked the compass and altimeter of the Vista, but actually don't have much need for them since I'm not an avid hiker, and didn't need to spend the extra money.

The Venture HC is great for geocaching. I took my family out on our original hunt last weekend, and though we only had with regards to an hour to spare, we had a outstanding time finding caches stashed around a park nearby. I may see this as a fun family action on road trips as well. The Venture has built-in geocaching features that let you download waypoints directly from geocacher.com (using the free Garmin browser plugin), and even mark caches as found right on the GPS. The color screen is very readable in sunlight. Although the Venture HC doesn't have a proper compass, the "compass" page is very utile for closing in on the target.

The Venture HC is likewise outstanding for novice astronomers. My computerized telescope needs to recognise lat/long/time to accurately slew to and track objects in the sky. I may get coordinates on general addresses on geocoder.us, but if I just want to set up at a dark web site somewhere, a GPS is a must. Rather than recompense $200 to get the GPS option on my scope, I may use this general intention GPS and just plug the numbers into the telescope's controller, or even connect through my laptop. Although any GPS will give you the time and location, not all have as nice a backlit screen as this one, a good thing when you're out in the dark. The customizable color schemes (with automatic night mode) and the variable backlight intensity are likewise great for astronomy to keep stray light to a minimum.

If I'm disappointed with anything it is with the built-in base map. Again, because this is my introductory GPS I was someways expecting more detail, not inevitably in terms of street names, but surely with respect to canals, mountains, even major cross streets etc. The only features I've been competent to distinguish are freeways, lakes and cities. There are a heap of mountains where I live and none of them are shown on the map. More elaborate topo maps are available, but cost anyplace from $80-$120. I'm not subtracting any stars for this, because I'm sure all basemaps are beauteous much the same. And with 24MB of memory, there's room for decent quality maps.

Garmin altered the firmware for the Venture in February 2008, so one of the initial things I did was download their free WebUpdater utility to mechanically install updates. I had one scary moment when my GPS lost the USB connection in the middle of the process, and I was worried my unit would be disabled. But after turning it off and back on it came right back up and, after a second try, the new firmware was installed in regarding 5 minutes.

All in all, I'm very happy with the quality of this unit. It feels sturdy yet light weight, with a nice rubberized feel to it. It's also waterproof, so no disturb using it in the rain. The interface took a little getting applied to, but after a while it becomes second nature. The Venture lets you custommake closely each screen to your taste; for example, I wanted to have time, elevation and emplacement on the same page for astronomy purposes, so I set one of the screens up to show all these fields. At $130, the price point was perfect: significantly lower than the next model up (sacrificing only the compass/altimeter and microSD slot), and not much higher than plain-vanilla black & white units without geocaching features.

I highly commend it.

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Protect your GPS navigator from scratches and scrapes with this beautiful deluxe carrying case. Equipped with sufficient space to hold a GPS, mounting bracket, cables, batteries, and data cards, the case makes a worthful associate for travelers and GPS hobbyists alike. The case--which is designed for Garmin StreetPilot and GPSMap 176 GPS systems--also includes a storage area for extra data cartridges.

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83 of 85 persons found the following review helpful.
Nice, but could be bigger
By Wally
I purchased the carrying case to use with the Garmin Street Pilot Deluxe package. With the case you may snugly fit the Garmin Street Pilot unit alone. However, when attempting to likewise put it the cigarette adapter/speaker, both don't fit without having the zipper on top partially opened. Also, don't even consider attempting to store the bean bag mount in the case.

I do like the fact that the bottom of the case has a protective cushion so the unit may be stored face down.

I think it would be nice if they had another sized bag -- one which may store the unit, adapter cable, plus the bean bag mount all together. This would be the idealisti size for those who want to carry the unit and all the accessaries at once.

Review update: The firstborn review is for attempting to hold the Street Pilot III with accessories. The case does fit the newer littler Garmin units. I was capable to effortlessly fit the Garmin Street Pilot 2620 with it's cigarette lighter adapter and remote control. I also was capable to add the external power adapter too -- but this was a bit tighter fit when the adapter was added in.

75 of 77 people found the following review helpful.
cheap product at a high price
By David G. Rathbun
This case is tiny and will scarcely hold the GPS unit with the base removed. It's cheaply made and would be over priced at $10 let alone the Amazon cost of $30 +. You're better off with a paper bag!

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Very disappointed with Garmin Deluxe Carrying Case
By Boy-yi Lee
I purchased one of these Garmin StreetPilot carrying case and was very disappointed, as this case provides no interior foam padding to cushion any external force. I ended up returning this case and purchased one of the Gilsson's Neoprene Carrying Case for the Garmin StreetPilot III, Quest and 2610 GPS receivers. I genuinely liked the Gilsson case, you ought to consider it. www.gilsson.com

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