It's Earthmate GPS LT20 by DeLorme. Less than a hundred bucks. The GPS is
a small yellow puck that plugs into your USP port and sits on the dash.
Reads the satalights (sp) through the wind shield. Works realy great.
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"Jerry Barton" wrote in message
...
There's a program that Doc is probably using called "MS Streets & Trips",
which comes with an antenna for the roof of your car. It actually shows a
little car moving across a map as you travel.


"Joe Haubenreich" (removethis)swljoe-at-secretweaponlures.com wrote in
message ...
I don't guess you'd want to take your laptop out on the boat, would you?
If
so, you could just connect the two and use the entire laptop screen map.
Doc
Pentheney has a gizmo he hooks into his USB port. Its a little GPS module
with an antenna cord that he lays on the dashboard, and he just drives
along
with his laptop open on the passenger seat. It tracks him all the way on
his
big screen... even has a female voice that alerts him before he reaches
an
intersection where he needs to make a turn.

Maybe you could set it up so this female voice says, "cast just toward
that
cedar tree... there's a submerged brush pile about fifty feet from you in
that direction." Wouldn't that be useful?

Joe
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"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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I bought a small handheld GPS unit earlier this year, when the fish
started
moving deeper, I began marking anything I got hung up on out in open
water,
well it has paid off. I'm catching fish and eliminating a lot of useless
water( I think) the problem is with the 3 lakes I fish, my GPS map looks
like a sprinkeled donut from an ariel view, dots everywhere. Any good
handhelds with larger screens? I am currently using a Garmin E-trex

Thanks everyone

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"Jim Laumann" wrote in message
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Randy

Do what Ronnie suggested - zoom out. Use the buttons on the left side
of the Etrex when you are viewing the waypoint map on the screen (I
have the same unit). When you get to the 200-500' range, you should
see waypoint seperation.

I have a data cable for mine that I can hook up to my PC - handy for
working w/ maps. One mapping program (shareware) is Ozi-Explorer -
a pretty good tool. If you can lay your hands on a contour map of your
water, it can be very useful.

The shareware version will only allow you to "sync" two co-ordinates,
but if you pay the fee, you can really zero in w/ 16 positions.

Shoot me an email if you have more questions.

Jim



On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 05:22:23 -0400, "alwaysfishking"
wrote:



I bought a small handheld GPS unit earlier this year, when the fish
started
moving deeper, I began marking anything I got hung up on out in open
water,
well it has paid off. I'm catching fish and eliminating a lot of useless
water( I think) the problem is with the 3 lakes I fish, my GPS map looks
like a sprinkeled donut from an ariel view, dots everywhere. Any good
handhelds with larger screens? I am currently using a Garmin E-trex

"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
...


I bought a small handheld GPS unit earlier this year, when the fish
started
moving deeper, I began marking anything I got hung up on out in open
water,
well it has paid off. I'm catching fish and eliminating a lot of useless
water( I think) the problem is with the 3 lakes I fish, my GPS map looks
like a sprinkeled donut from an ariel view, dots everywhere. Any good
handhelds with larger screens? I am currently using a Garmin E-trex



I find that handhelds have the perfect size screen. If you think you need
more screen area, maybe a combo LCD/GPS is in order for your boat. Yeah,
mucho $$$, but that is the next step up IMO.

As an aside, you do know that you can "zoom" in on your waypoints (or I can
on my eTrex Venture) so that they are so clumped up appearing, right? At
least I assume the zoom feature is onboard the entire eTrex line anyway...so
long as you can see where you are, and where you want to go, the little
handhelds can tell you bearing/distance as good as anything much more
expensive IMHO, so long as you're zoomed to the proper level.

I like my little eTrex, as it works pretty good on my little boat, with
little need for a perma-mount LCD/GPS or GPS standalone. Out of my 500
available waypoints, I have a shade over 300 stored on various lakes, bays
and ICW spots among the various NC waterways I haunt.