Re: Garmin 60CS, saving tracks

From: William Wood (spamthisbastard_at_biteit.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:33:50 -0600

"H.W. Stockman" <stockman3@earth-REMOVE_THIS-link.net> wrote in message
news:PjPqd.6914$NU3.6499@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >
> The maximum number of points in a saved track (saved on the GPS) is 500.
> You can have up to 20 saved tracks.
>
> If you save an active log to GPS storage, and the active log is more than
> 500 points, the GPS will resample the log to get 500 points total, so some
> detail will typically be lost (however, I've found the saved log is
> usually
> adequate).
>
> You can also upload "tracks" from your PC to the GPS, and they go into the
> "saved track" storage. I've found that is a good way to load complicated
> potential routes -- I draw them on the PC, then upload them as tracks. If
> you do that, you must set the uploaded tracks to be a color other than
> "transparent."
>
>

My plan is to alpine snow ski with an external antenna connected to the
60CS, track log on with an interval set to about 5 seconds. That should
give me 13 or 14 hours of track time. My reasoning in having a large
number of points is that instantaneous speeds change a lot. Was hoping to
get an idea of max speeds on different runs, etc.

-William Wood