Re: 76CS -- not my favorite GPSR (a bit lengthy)
From: Fred (kaufmanfl_at_att.net)
Date: 06/16/04
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:08:06 -0700
I've the newest firmware and also had two lockups this past weekend
that required me to pull the batteries. 76cs
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:36:35 GMT, "Bob Longo" <none@none.com> wrote:
>Well, I just got my 76CS yesterday. It does make an attempt to display the
>Next Street (but it works very poorly). Let me explain and compare with how
>this feature worked on my old GPSmap 76S.
>
>On the 76S, the Next Street would always be shown and would show the
>distance to the street. As you passed that street (or off-ramp), the
>display would change to show the next street. This worked very well.
>
>However, on the 76CS, enabling the "Guidance Text" usually shows the road
>you're traveling on. For example, "East on I-210". If you watch very
>closely, you may see it breifly show the name of the next off-ramp before
>switching back to the road you're traveling on display. I watched this
>today traveling several miles down the freeway. Of the 5 or so off-ramps I
>passed, I think I saw it display one briefly just before the indicated ramp,
>one after having already passed the indicated ramp, and the rest were not
>displayed at all. Pretty useless!
>
>The unit seemed to perform this function much better when traveling on
>residential streets. It actually showed all of them prior to reaching the
>upcoming street and didn't miss any that I saw. Don't know exactly what the
>difference is - maybe the processor isn't fast enough to keep up with
>upcoming off-ramps while trying at the same time to keep determining what
>direction/road you're traveling on?
>
>Maybe the performance of this function could be improved on the 76CS if
>there was a way to turn of the "what road/directiion your currenly on"
>feature while still leaving the upcoming ramp enabled.
>
>Other comparions between the 76S and the 76CS:
>
>1) The 76CS doesn't have tide tables. I miss that feature!
>
>2) Granted I've only had it for 2 days, but so far I haven't seen any
>indication that WAAS is working on the 76CS (even though it is enabled). I
>used to see that little "D" on the Satellite view on the 76S quite
>regularly. I'll give this a few more days before really deciding that the
>76CS has a problem with this...
>
>3) The 76CS has hung requiring the batteries to be removed twice so far -
>always when "working..." shows in the Map screen. I'm sure they will fix
>this in some future version of firmware and am not too worried about it.
>
>4) The default for track logs on the 76CS is 3000 points. I was on a hike
>today and relatively quickly 50% of the track log was used up. So I went
>into setup and changed it to 10000 (the maximum), but the track log still
>showed 50%. Something wrong here - maybe you can't dynamically increase the
>side of the active track log storage? 3000 (and even 10000) seems like
>very few points for track logs. With so much memory, why can't the number
>be MUCH bigger?
>
>5) The 76CS is much faster when scrolling maps. This is a great
>improvement.
>
>6) The battery gauge on the 76CS is pathetic compared to the 76S. Four bars
>up in the status bar make it very difficult to accurately determine how much
>battery life is left.
>
>7) The 76CS still does not have a way to convert track logs into routes!
>Neither did the 76S, but at least the 76CS can store 20 track logs (compared
>to 10 on the 76S). For what I do track logs are much more useful than
>routes (hikes, bike rides, etc.). I wish Garmin would either provide a way
>to convert track logs into routes, or to store a lot more track logs.
>
>8) There are no names on the waypoint symbols page when picking the symbol
>for waypoints on the 76CS. So you have to guess what the symbol means.
>However, on another screen where you can find all waypoints by symbol, the
>names associated with the symbols are shown! So the only way to really know
>what a symbol indicates, you have to set it on a waypoint, then go into the
>"find waypoints by symbol" and look at what the name is for the symbol you
>used. I expect this is an oversight that will be corrected in a future
>firmware version.
>
>More later as I spend more time with the unit.
>
>-Bob Longo
>
>
>"Jack Yeazel" <Jack@FinalApproach.net> wrote in message
>news:40CC9A7D.D0DB692E@FinalApproach.net...
>>
>>
>> Roger Mundy wrote:
>>
>> > > Oops. Sorry.
>> >
>> > That's OK, some of the review covers some of the same features the
>> > 76CS has. Just got mine on Thursday and LOVE it. The only feature I
>> > would like to see added would be the "NEXT STREET" feature that the
>> > old E-Map had. It comes in handy when you are going throug
>> > subdivisions at night looking for a particular street, and also when
>> > going down the road looking for a street that the 76CS does not have a
>> > name for on the screen.
>>
>> This is puzzling, since the 60C announces each upcoming cross street...???
>> It's "Guidance Text" on the Map Menu...
>>
>> --
>> Jack
>>
>> Get general GPS information at: http://www.gpsinformation.net/
>
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