Re: [not so] Sad Tale of Greed and Aspiration.

On 8/25/2010 6:35 AM, I wrote:
I got excited when I read about the cheap chinese PNA tablets around
$100: 600MHz CP, Wince 6.0, fast GPS built-in.... On this NG.

Then it took a month to show up, after an attempted order cancellation
from the vendor (??) - Ever hear of such a thing?

I thought it would make a nice moving map update for my Garmin IQue with
Approach Systems MM app (called APIC for <$20, would you believe)

Then I found that the MM app I was using didn't know wince 6.0.
Too bad.

Then I found that LK8000 DOES know Wince 6.0 - Good!

Then I found you couldn't download LK8000, perhaps because a copyright
owner of XCsoar was objecting. Too bad.

So here I am sitting on my hands....

Brian W


.....but not for very long! By lunch time, I received a note with a URL which provided access to the manual and the executables for the PNA version he is testing. And within minutes of downloading those materials I was looking at the rather interesting possibilities that LK8000 provides on a Chinese cheapie.

I suppose, out of an excess of confidentiality, I should only mention that it was one of the responders to this note who made his 122a version available to me, though my inclination is to bless his kindness in public and likewise all the people who came back so quickly.

For what it's worth: an app that runs as advertized out of the box, needing only a pointer from the nav soft button to the micro SD address where the whole ball of wax resides, has won me over already.
It picked up the GPS immediately and displayed the sat count lat/lon/elevation when that display was selected.

I regret that I had previously put the PNA where a bottle of sun screen could leak onto it, so I can confirm that the screen surround is not liquid-proof, from the faint tide mark it left round the edge (Darn it!)

People might consider the virtues of a slim line of silicone bounded
pro temp by masking tape around the chrome screen edging (A tip given me long ago for water proofing the rear transparency on my airplane)

I see that speeds and distances are presently in clicks and altitudes are in meters though I see a ft conversion too and I suspect that units are (or will soon be) selectable.

Someone somewhere has made useful display choices for number sizes, colors and contrasts. I like the idea of sound coding the touch menu - nifty touch! Now I need to find topography and a map (preferably the whole US with airports though that is probably distinctly un-glider-pilot-like....

Gratefully,

Brian Whatcott
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