Name: E. Lhommedieu
Location: Illinois
Date: 2004-05-13
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Solid, accurate, waterproof. What's not to like?
Comment: I originally purchased the Geko unit from the local Shack. This was my first experience with GPS and I was pretty well hooked. I was out of town at Best Buy a few weeks later and picked up the yellow Etrex for the same price. They talked me into the warranty for the extra 10 bucks. I bought it for search and rescue training, and for an upcoming trip to Central America where we will likely find ourselves hiking thru mountainous terrain. I have been testing the unit for about 3 mos now. Great unit. Get one, and get yourself some good rechargeables and you are in like Flynn. Spot on accurate, and the ability to know where you are, anywhere on the planet, at any time, and in any weather for a fixed investment of $100.00 -- Impossible to go wrong here.
Name: Mark Scheier
Location: CYPRESS, CA United States
Date: 2000-09-07
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Great value
Comment: I own several GPS receivers and have followed their evolution for the last few years. Garmin produces some of the easiest to use and best product in the GPS arena. The etrek is one of the smallest, very rugged, fast acquistion time, and even has an upload waypoint capability at that low price. The bright color makes it easy to spot in your backpack whether on an urban or mountain hike. I also use it as a backup for my marine gps.
Name: Patonzon
Location: México City
Date: 2002-04-05
Customer Rating: -
Summary: A few cons of a great product
Comment: I use my etrex for mountain biking in Mexico, and I found it to be a great deal for its low price. You can read about all the pros at garmins web page, but I'm going to tell the cons I found:
-There are only a few simbols for marking a waypoint, there isn't one for summit, road, road intersection, etc, wich I think are esential and are avaliable in more expensive models.
-You have only 6 characters for naming a waypoint.
-You can't pan trough the trak map, the only option is for changing the scale, so it makes it very diffcult to see the portion of the map you want. Plus, the names of the waypoints overlap each other and the line path is too wide, so it can get very confuse.Over all, I thik this is a superv product for its low price and I would definitely recommend it.
Name: Dale Drechsler
Location: Elizabeth Park, SA Australia
Date: 2002-05-22
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Excelent GPS for use with Streets & Trips
Comment: I use my GArmin eTrex with a laptop and Microsofts Streets and Trips and it works a treat. Makes my driving so much less stressfull having my exact location being plotted along.I dont seem to have any trouble acquiring a signal and the startup time after the initial first time is quite reasonable
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Location:
Date: 2003-03-02
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Best Bicycle Entertainment Device Ever
Comment: I've used one on a daily bicycle commute for over two years,
letting it draw a map of the city with the track it lays, and
marking intersections. It's terrific entertainment.NiMH rechargeable batteries are almost a necessity; they last
about 10 hours (vs. 17 for alkaline, but you can't reuse those).
I like the Maha MH-C401FS charger. It helps if you use NiMH
batteries for other things too, to justify the cost.
The thing that broke eventually first was the PAGE button, which
fell off, being the button most used. You can still use it
by poking inside, but it's no longer waterproof. I gather
the rubber wore out and the rubber is what supported the button.
This happened after 2.5 years of 7 day a week use, so probably
about 20,000 button pushes on that button.
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