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At 06:23 AM 10/23/2003 -0500, Ed Burkhead wrote: >Hartmut and others with older moving map GPSes, > >If you upgrade and don't want your old moving map GPS, you might >advertise the old one here. There are some of us who might prefer an >older moving map GPS to the non-map GPSes we're using. The problem is that a lot of them (like the Airmap 300) are being phased out of support by the manufacturers, and are developing glitches. That's why Lowrance is offering a price of $399 on the 500 to owners of the 300-series. My 300 now has two glitches...a long 'warm up' time to acquire satellites (15 minutes), and an external power jack that is a bit intermittent. (I just use the rechargeable pack, and plug IT in to the power, giving me redundancy.) Add to that that the back-up GPS II needed some attention to its battery springs, and my Dead Reckoning skills have gotten some polish of late. Kind of enjoyable, actually, setting a course for an airport 30 miles away and finding it :-) The occasion of the failing GPS You do see GPS's offered on EBay quite frequently. Greg ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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