Garmin 14 Mile 22 Channel Waterproof Navigator
About the size of a little cordless phone, the bright-yellow and black Rino 110 has two fixed antennas coming out of the top. One antenna lets you talk at up to two miles using 14 FRS (Family Radio Service) channels. It also may commune throughout 8 GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) channels, providing up to 5 miles of range, even though this requires an FCC license. The other antenna offers the innovative WAAS-enabled GPS tracking you'd suppose from Garmin (see chart at right). Using the big 160 x 160 pixel backlit display you may save up to 20 dissimilar routes and 500 waypoints in the unit's 1 MB of memory. Plus, in addition to the built-in cities database, you may even upload maps from Garmin's Points of Interest CD with an optional adapter. The fun actually starts when you combine these two features. The Rino may transmit it is emplacement to others at up to two miles and track up to 50 contacts simultaneously. So, for instance, you may display a map on the screen with the names and emplacements of all of your friends, or select a friend and have the Rino guide you to their location. The Rino's graphical interface makes it easy to control it is myriad functions with a 5-way cursor, similar to those found on laptop keyboards, which lets you move speedily all over the menu screens. This waterproof device runs on 3 AAA batteries. Once you use the Rino 110, it's hard to imagine purchasing a two-way radio without GPS functionality, the two features go so well together. --Ken Feinstein Pros:
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ReviewImagine a cross amidst a walkie talkie and a Star Trek communicator, that's the best way to understand the Garmin's Rino 110. Not just a powerful GPS receiver, this two-way radio may even track your friends and transmit your emplacement to others. These innovative features and low price makes it idealisti whether hiking, hunting, playing paintball or just checking up on your kids. About the size of a little cordless phone, the bright-yellow and black Rino 110 has two fixed antennas coming out of the top. One antenna lets you talk at up to two miles using 14 FRS (Family Radio Service) channels. It likewise may commune throughout 8 GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) channels, providing up to 5 miles of range, altho this requires an FCC license. The other antenna offers the innovative WAAS-enabled GPS tracking you'd suppose from Garmin. Using the huge 160 x 160 pixel backlit display you may save up to 20 dissimilar routes and 500 waypoints in the unit's 1 MB of memory. Plus, in addition to the built-in cities database, you may even upload maps from Garmin's Points of Interest CD with an optional adapter. The fun in truth starts when you combine these two features. The Rino may transmit it is emplacement to others at up to two miles and track up to 50 contacts simultaneously. So, for instance, you may display a map on the screen with the names and emplacements of all of your friends, or select a friend and have the Rino guide you to their location. The Rino's graphical interface makes it easy to control it is myriad functions with a 5-way cursor, similar to those found on laptop keyboards, which lets you move speedily all over the menu screens. This waterproof device runs on 3 AAA batteries. Once you use the Rino 110, it's hard to imagine purchasing a two-way radio without GPS functionality, the two features go so well together. --Ken Feinstein Pros:
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The Rino 110 is a GPS-enabled handheld that integrates radio functionality to provide two-way communications. It's waterproof, may send communications up to five miles (using GMRS channels), and may let another Rino user know your precise emplacement within a two-mile range (on the FRS spectrum) using position reporting. And because the Rino 110 has standard FRS capabilities, you may likewise talk to friends or family who own conventional FRS radios. The Rino 110 has a built-in city point database, with 1 MB of internal memory for further and added points-of-interest data that may be downloaded from a MapSource Points of Interest CD-ROM. |
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