[OSM-talk] Sale on RoyalTek BlueGPS

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:39:18AM +0200, Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> On Saturday 08 July 2006 01:32, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > I was helping someone look at GPSes tonight, and I stumbled into the
> > fact that http://www.semsons.com/roybluegmobd.html has RoyalTek BlueGPS
> > units on sale for only $99.99. These units are excellent -- they have
> > the ability to log up to 30,000 points at 1, 2, or 3 second intervals,
> 
> I was searching for GPS logging devices these days too. And I think 30K is 
> quite an ammount of points, but if you really want to log long times, you 
> should use something like the NaviGPS, which loggs on a 2GB-SD-Card.

Yes. THis is not meant for 'set it and forget it', but 'take it with you
wherever you go, upload your tracks at the end of the day'. I recorded
my 11 hour 15 mile hike through San Francisco with this, with an 
hour to spare -- and that's on the highest setting.

> The other thing I throw into considdering: I think this device is only 
> equipped with a SIRF-II not a SIRF-III chipset.

This is correct.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer