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Old May 20th 08, 07:41 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
brianDG303
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Default GPS for PDA

On May 20, 11:27 am, Cats wrote:
On May 20, 6:42 pm, "Morten Wartou"
wrote:

Hi!


I recently bought a Holux M-1200 bluetooth GPS receiver to be used with my
PDA. It sort of works - but has one "minor" problem - when I curve, it often
can't acquire good signal and gets really confused. Ofcourse I could just
avoid curving, but living in a very flat country, it's the only way I can
stay up.


Has anyone else had these kind of problems with the M-1200?


Any suggestions for a GPS receiver (preferrably bluetooth, but CF could be a
possibility)? I like the M-1200's ability to do 5 updates/sec. and I'd like
the new one to do that too.


You could experiment with where you put the bluetooth GPS in the
glider. Or, if you use a data logger you could see about taking a
feed from that to the PDA - that will mean that you can be absolutely
sure that your trace won't include any airspace infringements!
However you might well not get 5 updates/second going down that route.


I have great results using a 'freedom keychain GPS' into an IPAQ 3790.

http://blog.treonauts.com/2008/02/freedom-keychai.html

but I don't think the 5/sec. update is going to happen. Nice $100
backup GPS though.