Re: Portable GPS Nav system

I use:
* Palm Tungsten T (NOT T2, T3 etc.)
* Magellan GPS companion for M500 series
* Bracket for above
* power cable for above - with car lighter type plug, takes 12V with a
wide margin
* SoaringPilot software( http://www.soaringpilot.org/ )

Total cost: <$200, for hardware (only on e-bay!), $0 for software

Advantages:
* Stick the bracket to the canopy with suction cups
* plug into available 12V lighter plug or to your own 12V battery
* GPS also charges PDA
* superb daylight readability of color screen
* excellent software - puts to shame some of the commercial ones (not
all..)
* fantastic software support

Uri
4X-GGG
P.S.: if you find the charger in the GPS module interferes with the
radio, reduce input voltage to 9V...




On Apr 1, 5:18 pm, "Mike Baldwin" <baldw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 1, 7:23 am, "Paul Remde" <p...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:





Hi Guy,

Yes, Please take a look here:http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/pdagps.htm

Is that what you are looking for?

I use systems like that often.

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

<guyache...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:1175403599.531225.22330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Looking for suggestions on a portable GPS Nav system. I was wondering
if a portable system could be cobbled together using a plug-in GPS
module on a PDA using Glide Navigator II or any other current software
like SeeYou mobile. I want a system I can use in rental planes.

Guy

I have used a small GPS unit to plug directly into the PDA, but the
issue then becomes power. Unless you can power the PDA the PDA
battery is quickly exhausted when it's driving the PDA and a direct
connect GPS. I found it better to use a Bluetooth GPS unit (which
has it's own power), connected to a Bluetooth enabled PDA with a large
capacity battery. Surprisingly (to me) the Bluetooth consumed less
power than the direct attached GPS card and I was able to soar for
many hours.
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