GPSMAP 60CSX Computer Software Web Tips Guide
GPSMAP 60CSx For Site Navigation
By Rainbow Spear
The Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx is a great mid-range, hand-held site
navigation device. It’s a little heavier than the cheapest or
most expensive Garmins, but it still floats, if need be.
It comes with a 128 microSD card and is geocaching/game friendly.
Compared to your bare bones GPS, you’ll get a barometric altimeter,
an electronic compass, turn-by-turn directions, tide tables, a
high-sensitivity receiver, which will give you reception even
in those remote areas, and custom points of interest.
Three Important New Features
The Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx retails around $535.70, but can be found
for as low as $191.50 at www.bestpriceaudiovideo.com
or $339 at www.zappos.com.
Compared to the $249 Garmin GPSMAP 60, this upgraded version comes
with three important new features.
First, the new SiRFSTARIII chip set has received wide acclaim
for its ability to beam signals under canopies, around buildings,
down into canyons and in typically hard-to-reach places.
Includes A MicroSD Card Slot
Secondly, this new Garmin model has traded in the dated internal
memory system for a microSD card slot that can be upgraded instead,
giving you unlimited storage capacity and the ability to use any
new map software that comes out. Thirdly, the 60CSx comes with
an electronic compass and barometric altimeter that the GPSMap
60CS doesn’t even have.
There are many pros to the GPSMAP 60 CSx, when compared with
its predecessors. From the moment you turn it on, you can review
the perfect reading and it is available in less than a minute;
within three minutes, all bars will be reporting from 10 satellites
with an accuracy of 10 feet, which is impressive as far as GPS
devices go.
Even Better In Hard To Reach Areas
Even in hard-to-reach areas like basements, the accuracy is reported
with 3-6 satellites and within 46 feet. The older model Garmin
GPSMAP 60cs would normally get zero to one satellite readings
at the same location. In cities and urban canyons, old GPSMap
60s had jumpy readings and sometimes even lost the signals entirely.
However, the new and improved GPSMAP 60CSx boasts 7-8 stable
satellites in the same spot with an accuracy of 20 feet. Perhaps
this is why so many geocachers like using this GPS site navigation
to find their hidden treasures.
Twice As Fast Calculations
If you’re used to the old GPSMAP 60CS, then you may notice there
are some modifications in auto-routing with your new GPSMAP 60CSx.
For starters, you’ll notice the newer version calculates a route
twice as fast as the old version. In a 140-mile trek with 26 turns,
the 60CSx takes 18.8 seconds to route, compared to the 39.4 seconds
it took for the 60CS.
Additionally, the recalculations if you miss a turn are much
faster on the new version too. Some people like turn warnings
well in advance, but the 60CSx turn warnings are presented much
later.
The one true con for this newer version, however, is the battery
life. While you’re likely to get 27 hours from your AAs, you’ll
still have about 30% less battery life, no matter how conservative
you try to be.
About the Author:
Rainbow Spear has written a number of articles on GPS Systems, Computers, Computer Games, Data Recovery, Internet Security, Identity Theft and
Computer Software including
GPS,
GPS Software,
Computer Troubleshooting,
Computer Forensic Evidence,
Identity Theft Statistics,
Accounting Business Software,
Zone Alarm Download,
Internet Banking.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
Give Me Just The GPS Facts.....
Do you remember the days when the only way to get somewhere new
was to draw the route on a paper map? Sometimes you ended up exactly
where you needed to be and sometimes you got so lost that you
had to stop for directions many times.
The days of the paper map are over. GPS units are the solution
for finding out where you are, where you need to be and even if
trouble is ahead. Most units are easily portable and can go wherever
you go.
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