<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Apollinaris Schoell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aschoell@gmail.com">aschoell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Garmin calls it high sensitivity but thats marketing .... <div>Maybe better than very old Garmin devices but much worse compared to a SiRF III </div><div>I have a new Hcx and compared multiple times. <br><div><div>Only 60, Oregon, Colorado use a SiRF III and they are much better in accuracy but drain batteries like crazy.</div>
<div>Still like the Hcx because it's smaller and battery life is very important on long hikes.</div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>No, the 60Cx/60CSx are the only handheld Garmin models that have a Sirf Star III (well, maybe some niche units like the Astro or Rino have it). The Colorado has a MediaTek just like the Vista HCx. The Oregon has a STM Cartesio chipset, same as the Delorme PN-40. I haven't used a 60Cx or 60CSx model, but I had a Vista HCx and it performed quite well. There was a rough series of chipset firmware for the Vista HCx that had a problem with drifting from the true position under difficult conditions, but recent firmwares have fixed that (or you could use the old version...). It was definitely able to hold a signal under difficult conditions better than the PN-40 I have now.<br>
<br>Karl<br>