Garmin eTrex Vista H

Garmin eTrex Legend HCx

Good value unit with mapping. It locks on quickly and reliably and you'll never get lost again. Also has all the features you're likely to need if you buy it with a City Navigator NT map. There are some problems: the bicycle mounts are poor quality so the unit rattles insufferably in them and may even switch itself off. People have used black insulating tape to pad out the mount, or buy a more robust aftermarket RAM mount which cradles the whole unit. Auto-routing (the follow road navigation option) works like a car satnav but sometimes picks blind alleys, forcing U-turns, and generally the routing is worse than a human could achieve with a map and a grain of common sense. ...

Garmin eTrex Legend HCx

Good value unit with mapping. It locks on quickly and reliably and you'll never get lost again. Also has all the features you're likely to need if you buy it with a City Navigator NT map. There are some problems: the bicycle mounts are poor quality so the unit rattles insufferably in them and may even switch itself off. People have used black insulating tape to pad out the mount, or buy a more robust aftermarket RAM mount which cradles the whole unit. Auto-routing (the follow road navigation option) works like a car satnav but sometimes picks blind alleys, forcing U-turns, and generally the routing is worse than a human could achieve with a map and a grain of common sense. ...

Garmin eTrex H

I bought an eTrex about 14 months ago primarily to help me GeoCaching (which is a hobby finding hidden items often in remote or countryside locations around the country). My main use for the eTrex was to use the built in GPS. This model is the cheapest in the range but has a lot of functions that can be useful. I found the GPS pretty good, it normally picks up the signal within 20-30 seconds in clear weather, and it can get a little slower in cloudy condition or under tree cover. The accuracy of the reading in my experience is also very good; I can normally pinpoint locations to within 1-2ft without any problems. It has a nifty little feature to save up to 50 ...

Garmin eTrex H

I bought an eTrex about 14 months ago primarily to help me GeoCaching (which is a hobby finding hidden items often in remote or countryside locations around the country). My main use for the eTrex was to use the built in GPS. This model is the cheapest in the range but has a lot of functions that can be useful. I found the GPS pretty good, it normally picks up the signal within 20-30 seconds in clear weather, and it can get a little slower in cloudy condition or under tree cover. The accuracy of the reading in my experience is also very good; I can normally pinpoint locations to within 1-2ft without any problems. It has a nifty little feature to save up to 50 ...

Garmin eTrex Legend C

I bought the eTrex Legend C as an upgrade to a Garmin Emap. The unit is smaller, has a colour screen, and seems to go on longer on a set of AA batteries. Uploads now happen over USB, which can also be used to power the unit, and this is a very welcome addition, particularly as many modern laptops don t even have a regular serial port, only USB. The memory capacity of the Legend C is fixed, and it is only 24Mb, and this is one of the main downsides to this unit. It hasn t got enough capacity to store the metroguide map for the whole of the UK, which means that you have to load the device with the regions you ll be travelling in, rather that just putting mapping for the ...

Garmin eTrex Legend C

I bought the eTrex Legend C as an upgrade to a Garmin Emap. The unit is smaller, has a colour screen, and seems to go on longer on a set of AA batteries. Uploads now happen over USB, which can also be used to power the unit, and this is a very welcome addition, particularly as many modern laptops don t even have a regular serial port, only USB. The memory capacity of the Legend C is fixed, and it is only 24Mb, and this is one of the main downsides to this unit. It hasn t got enough capacity to store the metroguide map for the whole of the UK, which means that you have to load the device with the regions you ll be travelling in, rather that just putting mapping for the ...