Woody - Garmin was amazingly available by phone today. The tech rep said the tracking function does not work at speeds lower than about 3.3 knots. I pointed out that this means it wouldn't be useful for most kayakers, or for hikers or climbers. He agreed that is the case - have to use your bearing compass for that. The track function on my unit was still wildly inaccurate while paddling at a steady 4 kn speed, so I think the tech rep is being "disingenuous", as the diplomats say. Also, he pointed out that the map will only display the 12 nearest waypoints, so that's why my waypoint wouldn't display. In the case of my unit, I had to delete all but **six** of the waypoints before the new waypoint would appear on the map display. Nearby towns and villages apparently count as "near" waypoints, and they can't be deleted from the unit. A "near" waypoint, says the tech rep, is anything within 10 miles of your current position, and there is no way to adjust what the unit interprets as "near". Bill *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 25 1999 - 08:44:43 PST
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