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Great but with Limits.
My Wife brought this for me for Christmas. She also brought me the Mapsource micro SD Southern, to go with it.The base map preloaded on the GPS is awful and not worth been sold on the gps.The topo map is much better, it shows roads and lakes and topo lines but thats all, if you want OS maps you need the SatMap at £300 plus maps.Works well with the USB cable downloading waypoints and routes from Memory Map very quickly.Used for Geocaching and it is easy to use with a geocache funct...
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Good product, let down by poor maps.
The first thing to say is that it is only worth buying this model if you are going to buy the Garmin mapping software as well. This is because you can't download maps from any other supplier. The mapping software doesn't include many footpaths, which is major short coming.The high sensitivity receiver works very well, in trees etc. It aquires possition very quickly. It is so accurate you can see which side of the road you are on. Following the same route multiple times and overlaying the...
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Excellent piece of kit
I always find these product reviews helpful as they are based on personal experience and hopefully not predjudice.This is my 3rd e trex and is a fantastic navigation tool.The first was left in my walking trousers and endured a full wash cycle to survive another day and function perfectly well! Such is the reliability of Garmin products.The Legend HCx acquires a fix extremely quickly and hotstarts within 3 seconds or so.This means out in the field,it can be switched on and acquire virtually insta...
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28/06/2008
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First one faulty second one perfect
I too had a faulty one which locked up at random times.I emailed Garmn and they told me to return it and a week later they sent me a replacement which is faultless. I bought the topo Southern England map which is fantastic, shows virtually all pathways so I would recommend this to anyone as it is a great bit of kit,
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Jon
Unfortunately I seem to have had a similar experience to Martin. My unit too hangs/freezes without warning, which is rather unhelpful to say the least if you are trying to use it to keep a track log in areas with few marked paths.Fortunately, after switching off and on again, I was able to get grid references to confirm my position on a paper map but this seems a very expensive way of getting that sort of information intermittently.I have not owned a handheld GPS before and bought th...
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Functionally good, but faulty
I had 2 of these from new, returning the first for the second. Both of them exhibited the same fault - namely they hang / freeze during use. They hang at random points, any time from switch-on to several hours later, so very unpredicatble and very unreliable.They hung / froze regardless of battery type, or whether the Micro SD card was plugged or not.I updated the software in each of them to the latest - v2.6. No difference.I can only conclude that there's a bad batch or design...
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Purchased for Christmas present for my husband
He thinks it's fantastic.He uses it in conjunction with Tracklogs Digital Mapping V3, so he can easily plan walking/cycling routes and drop these onto the eTrex. Track logging is very accurate and can easily be downloaded from the eTrex onto Tracklogs - so he can see and record on his PC exactly where he's been.We also used it to locate some geocaches and so far it has proved to be extremely accurate, beeping when you are within just a couple of feet of the target.The mapping provided i...
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a worthwhile upgrade on the vista c
As a previous owner of the garmin etrex vista c, this is a great upgrade. The increased sensitivity and map drawing speed is true (not hype). Whether in cities with tall buildings or in forests reception is vastly improved.The addition to use micro sd cards, means I no longer have to use my laptop to swap maps. I just swap chips (eg the UK topo for walking and Metroguide for city streets). Buy the metrogold software ($6) to convert any metroguide maps to a fully routable city navigator packag...
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Unreliable??
The third time I used this Garmin eTrex Vista HCx the device would not work, it was just dead. Fortunately I was not out 'in the field' or 'on the moors in the fog'. It was returned for a refund. I am now considering whether I was just unlucky with it and should I try again, or just purchase a different make/model. No feedback from Garmin.
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eTrex Vista
Quite an impreesive gps but spoilt by the need to buy expensive software to make it useful!!The product description does not make this extra expense clear.
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