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 Topic: Goodbye Quest 2 |
bigbob
Replies: 15
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 Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:17 pm Subject: Goodbye Quest 2 |
Hi yamkwak
Am interested in your proposal re county court action I am sure if enough folk got together that are genuinly effected by the Q2 issue then something would have to be done in our favour I ... |
| Topic: Goodbye Quest 2 |
bigbob
Replies: 15
Views: 9611
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:22 pm Subject: Goodbye Quest 2 |
Hi yamkwak
I am going through the same process as you with GPSW my Q2 was replaced by Garmin mid June and still does not work to my satisfaction I even suggested to GPSW that I would be prepaired to ... |
| Topic: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
bigbob
Replies: 11
Views: 5785
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:04 pm Subject: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
Hi Biking Buddy
Sorry re negativity about Q2 I did try to be objective about the small review round Eu and to be fair it got me to the place where I was staying everytime except one and the one time ... |
| Topic: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
bigbob
Replies: 11
Views: 5785
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:09 pm Subject: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
Hi yamkwak
I must admit to have lost confidence in the unit myself and would be very wary of buying an other GPS unit I think they are all not without problems. I might even go back to the GPS 12 wit ... |
| Topic: GPS upgrade for bike |
bigbob
Replies: 2
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Forum: Motorcycle GPS Users Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:55 pm Subject: GPS upgrade for bike |
| I have just returned from a Euro trip and used Quest 2 and although it did get me to my destinations eventually I was generally disapointed with it the original Quest is quicker and if you are pleased ... |
| Topic: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
bigbob
Replies: 11
Views: 5785
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:54 pm Subject: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
Hi Locksmith
I suppose its swings and roundabouts the Q1 is quicker and the Q2 has whole of western Europe on board plus the Q2 has more map detail but I believe uses compressed data which has to be ... |
| Topic: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
bigbob
Replies: 11
Views: 5785
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:15 am Subject: around Europe with the Quest 2 |
Hi
this is my impressions of the Quest 2 after using it on a motorcycle tour of 3400 miles in Europe. Firstly anyone who has been reading the forum will know that I had problems downloading routes fr ... |
| Topic: Problem transferring routes to Quest 2 |
bigbob
Replies: 5
Views: 3275
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:52 pm Subject: Problem transferring routes to Quest 2 |
Hi Skellum
Have just returned from France and my Quest 2 was a bit quirky downloading Maps as well before I went so what I did was download waypoints to Q2 and let the unit calculate the routes (see ... |
| Topic: Problem with antenna |
bigbob
Replies: 12
Views: 5482
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:18 pm Subject: Problem with antenna |
I would be inclined to get an external antenna :-
http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/c-accessories-apla3669c94.html |
| Topic: Quest2 not Booting Up |
bigbob
Replies: 8
Views: 4122
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:25 am Subject: Quest2 not Booting Up |
| I am off at the end of this week on Friday I'll have 2 days in the lake district and then off to France,Switzerland,Germany,Belgium and ending up in Netherlands for Ferry home will be doing mostly Fra ... |
| Topic: Quest2 not Booting Up |
bigbob
Replies: 8
Views: 4122
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:28 pm Subject: Quest2 not Booting Up |
Hi Adrian
fine on building waypoints into routes I too am trying out something logical for the naming of waypoints so they are easy to make a route. You can input the waypoints far more quickly than ... |
| Topic: Quest2 not Booting Up |
bigbob
Replies: 8
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:00 pm Subject: Quest2 not Booting Up |
| adrianh I think you have a lot of routes and data on yours due to Euro trip you are planning soon. I also had the same on mine and I must admit it made my Q2 a bit quirky with all this info in so I du ... |
| Topic: Quest2 not Booting Up |
bigbob
Replies: 8
Views: 4122
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:56 pm Subject: Quest2 not Booting Up |
| Have you tried a hard reboot (power+Page+OK Button) you will delete all your waypoints and Data but if you can get the usb working you should be able to download all data via mapsource and then save i ... |
| Topic: Using the Route Tool in MapSource |
bigbob
Replies: 3
Views: 2220
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:39 am Subject: Using the Route Tool in MapSource |
Hi adrianh
Interested to read your post about trunicating routes etc I have simular problems to you (see posts) and what I have done is download all the waypoints I need from mapsource to the quest a ... |
| Topic: QUEST 2, LOADING ROUTES---HELP!!! |
bigbob
Replies: 5
Views: 2898
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:13 pm Subject: QUEST 2, LOADING ROUTES---HELP!!! |
Hi yamkwak
Fine on fitting routes onto Q2 my waypoint experiment worked fine and managed to get 20 routes on although it seems to make the unit a bit slow and quirky with all routes on so I have dele ... |
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