Magellan Sportrak Water Resistant Hiking
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If you're heavy into the stimulating global adventure game of geocaching, you'll love the powerful Magellan Explorist 400. A GPS is perfectly critical to geocaching, and the Explorist 400 just might be the unit for you. Actually, the whole game is designed around global positioning systems. In fact, all that you actually need to play this fun, stimulating and challenging game is an accurate, dependable GPS, access to the Internet, and a call to adventure. Right out of the box, the Magellan Explorist 400 won't concede you access to a lot of of it's more beautiful features, but once the little 400 is to the full or entire extent loaded, you just can't beat it. WOW, it's like having your own handheld Internet browser but without having online access. You'll unquestionably want to add the optional features that will grant you to put in regular street addresses rather of just the GPS coordinates. Adding these choices will enable you get driving directions to ATM's, restaurants, bars, gas stations, and innumerable other destinations and places of interest, and, with these further and added choices in place, you'll likewise be capable to receive turn-by-turn street and road directions. When any establishment, museum, golf course, or other place of interest that you might be looking for displays on the screen, the Magellan 400 likewise lists the phone numbers and addresses. Talk regarding making a geocacher's life posing no difficulty and so much sweeter, the Magellan Explorist 400 has a high speed USB port that makes downloading info quick and easy, plus the Geocache Manager software enables you to download caches directly into your powerful little 400. It has 8 MB of internal memory that enables it to save 5 track log files, up to 20 routes, and also 500 POI (points of interest). If this doesn't sound like enough, you may get optional SD cards and save an limitless number of caches. Additionally, it has 8 MB of maps already built-in, but you may likewise get further and added SD cards and carry as some maps as you want. While the Magellan Explorist 400 GPS has all the power you will need for any geocaching hunt, it is tiny, only 2.1" x 4.6", without apparent effort fitting into your jeans, shirt or jacket pocket. The unit is lightweight, water-resistant, and it even floats. It's battery lasts an extra long time, a minimum of twelve plus hours. It's Magellan TrueFix feature makes it dependable and exceedingly accurate, and it maintains it is satellite reception even underneath heavy tree or cloud cover or both. With it, you may explore to your heart's content without fear of getting lost. That's always my worst fear when hiking in the mountains, all the boulders and trees get started to look alike. But, then, my sense of direction is so poor, that I could get lost down at the local dog park. Thank God, my canine companions know their way home. I purchased my Explorist 400 principally for geocaching, but I also use if for hiking, tracking and fishing waypoints, and for a navigational aide while driving. Actually, the only downside to the Magellan Explorist 400 handheld GPS is that in order to experience all of it is particular features; you have to buy and install the options. But, now that I have it entirely loaded, I can't imagine geocaching without it.
Built to be both intuitive and easy-to-use, the SporTrak Color lets you rest assured knowing that all it is major functions are described in step-by-step instructions built right into the unit. Start navigating right away with it is 10 MB built-in mapping database of North America, which includes highways, major roads, parks, waterways, airports, cities, and marine navigation aids such as buoys, beacons, lights, and other items. You may exaggerate your mapping capablenesses by uploading elaborate maps from optional Magellan MapSend software (up to an further and added 22 MB for North America). Store up to 20 routes, 500 waypoints and 2,000 track-points to effortlessly find your way back again. The Save Track-to-Route feature lets you convert perplexed track files into easy-to-follow routes. Save hundreds of routes by transferring them to a PC using the optional MapSend software. Nine customizable graphic navigation screens include a map, compass, and speedometer with text readouts of heading, bearing, speed, direction, and ETA, among others. Choose from 12 built-in coordinate systems and 76 datums, including Latitude/Longitude, Universal Transverse Mercator, and Military Grid Reference System. Built with rubber-armored, impact-resistant plastic, the unit nonetheless weighs in at a mere 6.8 ounces, keeping it compact and light sufficient to slip into your pocket and accompany you wherever your road leads. Further, the water-resistant SporTrak Color is sealed to IEC-529 IPX7 specifications--and it even floats. The SporTrak Color uses WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) to provide the greatest or most complete or best possible GPS accuracy and reliability available. A built-in barometer helps you forecast the weather, while an innovative three-axis compass offers superior navigational accuracy no matter how you hold it. Other features include the capacity to show when the sun will rise and set and the phase of the moon for any date and emplacement in the world. Want to recognise when the fish are likely to be biting in your corner of the world? The SporTrak Color tells you that, too. It may also monitor the GPS satellites in view and get info when it comes to their status. If you speak English, French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, or Dutch, you're in luck--so does the Magellan SporTrak Color. A pair of AA batteries powers the device for up to 14 hours of continuous use. What's in the Box Navigate through all your outdoor adventures in vibrant color with the Magellan SporTrak Color. SporTrak Color provides superior tracking and accuracy, showing your position to within 3 meters, even in difficult environments such as cities or mountains. Featuring an impressive 10 MB North American or 11 MB European, built-in mapping database, SporTrak Color puts rich color maps at your fingertips. The large, high contrast, full color 240 x 160 pixel display enables you to effortlessly find your location, heading and route. An further and added 22 MB for North America or 21 MB for Europe of memory enables you to exaggerate your mapping capablenesses by uploading elaborate maps from optional Magellan MapSend software products. A clear vantage over the competition, SporTrak Color also offers a built-in barometer, giving you an advance on the weather and an innovative 3-axis compass for superior navigational accuracy no matter how you hold it. Built tough, SporTrak Color is waterproof and rugged sufficient to go with you on any adventure. The features of the SporTrak Color give you all of the outstanding vantages of GPS navigation in a full-color, compact, lightweight, rugged package: Full Color Barometer 3-Axis Compass Accurate Easy to use Built-in mapping of North America or Europe and expandability Full Featured Navigation Store routes and track-points Save Track-to-Route Sun/Moon positions Fish and game calculator Satellite status Built to carry out on the most challenging and stringent adventure. Large backlit full-color display Compact and lightweight Advanced power management Rugged construction Waterproof Built-in help database Multiple language support Warranty |
Great Reception, sturdy, BUT so-so Interface and screen
1st Timer
Disappointed
