Re: Garmin 60CSx initial comments ..


GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote:
OK, it (60CSx) finally arrived, and I have to agree with whoever said
the transflash card looked like you wouldn't want to swap it every day.
The transflash card itself looks slightly fragile. The metal holder for
it (under the batteries) looks like it was designed by the folks who
also brought you Mayfly wing joints. 8<,

Other comments .. the sensitivity is every bit as good as people claim,
although that does result in it 'walking' while on my desk .. several
dozen meters in one leap sometimes. I guess the multipath is getting to
it.

Also seems to have aversion to ESTB satellite (PRN33) - it locked for a
while, downloaded some differential corrections, and then decided to
quit playing - didn't look for any other birds (37 and 39 are sometimes
available, and a vanilla 60C/CS will cycle through everything from 33 to
51 .. to no avail), just gave up - looking for 11 GPS satellites, and a
-- where it could be hunting for WAAS/EGNOS/ESTB. The manual does say
something to the effect that it'll stop using WAAS if 'without' gives
better results.

Oh, and the new USB connectivity doesn't work with Tracklogs V2 (for our
UK users) .. only with V3.11 and up. I don't know what Tracklogs did
wrong, because it works like a hose with an extremely old version of
Oziexplorer (and, of course, with Mapsource).

Apart from that I'm well pleased. Redraw, and everything else, is pretty
snappy compared to a 60C. I could have done without the games, and with
the cartoon stile logos on the menu pages, but basically it's a nice
unit.

One other thing I noticed, when averaging waypoints

I read about how the csx can average waypoints but I don't know what it
means, can you help?

the accuracy
estimate now (mostly) goes down over time, as more estimates are added.
With the 60C it would leap around all over the place, as if the accuracy
was only for the last point (or else the algorithm was bust).

And finally (shameless plug) the 'old' (well, replaced under warranty
last August) 60C is available for purchase - on Amazon.co.uk
marketplace, rather than Ebay (I have an aversion to Ebay).

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GSV Three Minds in a Can
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