On Nov 5, 1:10*pm, Uncle Fuzzy wrote:
On Nov 5, 12:22*pm, Brad wrote:

On Nov 5, 7:42*am, Uncle Fuzzy wrote:

I just put together a REALLY cheap system for budding LVVSA XC pilots
to use. *Here's the breakdown:
iPAQ 3870 - ebay $22.50 including shipping (I bought a 'lot' of 5)
New battery - $20.00
Bluetooth GPS from Semsons $23.60 including shippinghttp://www.semsons.com/amabg108blgp.html
XCSoar - Free
I haven't determined if I can make OLC valid files yet.

make sure you have the GRECORD.DLL file in the root directory, that
has been working for me to generate valid files using XC soar.

Brad

Mike/Brad,
* Thanks for the info. *I'll try to get a flight in this weekend to
try it out.
The cigarette lighter adapter that comes with the GPS outputs the same
voltage required to keep a PDA happy, so I'll probably just make an
adapter to go from it to the PDA. *Another 7 bucks added. D'oh! The
manual for the GPS unit says it's good for 12 hours, so I'm not going
to bother with power for it.
Jim

I've used a similar gps (Freedom Keychain) and the battery life was
never an issue. I have to say that a HP310 for $150 was worth the
extra money not to have to keep track of the level of charge and
location of that little gps, or getting them to link up, ect. Works
great though.