>Allan Singleton said: > The Silva seems to have an advantage in that you can turn on > the compass without the GPS and get extremely long battery > life - up to 60 days claimed. Hi Allan, I have the GPSmap76S, with the compass. Our reason for getting the S was not so much the barometer or compass, but that it comes with 256meg of memory while the non-S has a lot less. The display is much better than the smaller ones because unlike when hiking, I often lay the GPS on the spray skirt and glance at it while paddling. The smaller screens are hard for my old eyes to see at that distance. The compass can be turned off when not in use, so battery wise it's a wash. I do find myself using the compass however when figuring out what I'm looking at. Putting the map in course-up mode allows the map to self-orient to the surroundings without needing to move the boat. I can point the unit at a feature and the map places it top center. Overall I like it. It is more costly of course. Carey *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 18 2004 - 19:17:33 PDT
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