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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:06 am Post subject: Garmin eTrex Venture & PDA
I have a Garmin eTrex Venture GPS unit. I use it with my laptop and Street Atlas 2003 when traveling. I have a USB to serial convertor because my laptop doesn't have a serial port. I also use it with my Kenwood TH-D7a transceiver for APRS, usually on my bicycle but sometimes in the car.
Now, I'd like to add a PDA so that instead (or maybe in addition to) of running APRS from my bicycle I could see the route on the PDA and listen to instructions on when to make the next turn, etc.
What I need is information on which PDA to purchase and what software package would best suit my needs. This will be my first PDA, my wife has a Palm Zire and it was strongly suggested by her PDA instructor that I purchase the Palm Tungsten E. However, in looking at that unit there doesn't appear to be any method of attaching my GPS unit to that PDA. I was wondering about the Sony TJ35 unit. I would also like voice navigation but the Street Atlas 2004 handheld version only supports Pocket PC voice navigation. That means I may have to go with a Pocket PC PDA rather than Palm which may cause a problem in sharing data with my wife's PDA (Palm Zire).
Suggestions, Recommendations?
Thanks, Tom Adams
P.S. I'm up to constructing special cables, adapters, etc. if necessary and I have a schematic.
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:41 pm Post subject:
Street Atlas 2004 for the HandHeld is not yet a serious software. It has some nice aspects (attempts at vector topo) but the street navigation capabilities are ridiculous.
If you want to stick with the Palm platform have a look at Mapopolis (www.mapopolis.com). They currently offer one of the best street navigation programs for the Palm and support various Tungstens and Clie's
If you decided for a PocketPC version then -hey - welcome to the big world! Dozens of decent navigation programs out there, with all kinds of voice support and automatic rerouting, and with cable connectors for all receiver-PDA combinations. Most of the newer combinations are using BlueTooth so you don't need any cables anyhow. _________________ Lutz
Joined: 17/05/2003 02:26:21 Posts: 3747 Location: Bedfordshire, UK
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: Garmin eTrex Venture & PDA
tadams61 wrote:
I also use it with my Kenwood TH-D7a transceiver for APRS, usually on my bicycle but sometimes in the car.
If I had some more strength and the money to buy the SDK, I'd love to create an APRS plug-in for TomTom Navigator.
For those familiar with the 'location' functions in CoPilot 4, that's basically what APRS is - it's a way of using a radio channel to broadcast your GPS location to anyone who is monitoring that channel.
Unfortunately I don't have a very small packet radio setup - and tend not to operate packet at all these days. My handheld is the very good but getting somewhat old TH-79E, which, of course, has no built in TNC. In fact, I've hardly been on the air for a while - my antennas at home are very poor. One day soon I must fire up my station again.
73 de G0WZA
(for the non-radio amateurs in the group, they're Morse prosigns - 73 is best wishes, de is from, and the rest is my callsign; I do hold a UK 12 words per minute Morse certificate as, until recently, you had to in order to get a full licence to operate on amateur frequencies below 30MHz)
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