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\r\nSo the main reasons I bought the Navilink were the:<\/p>\r\n
- \r\n
- Rechargeable battery<\/li>\r\n
- USB Cable (more convenient than the more common serial cable)<\/li>\r\n
- Automatic data logging with adjustable interval<\/li>\r\n
- Accepts SD Card (also has it’s own internal storage of ~2 Mb). It seems to take about 20 kb per 100 records with NMEA data (which you don’t really need) and 7 kb without. I could have messed up the decimal but I think that translates into 100 continous months<\/em> of 10 second interval data on a 2 Gb card.<\/li>\r\n
- Waterproof (Almost all the handheld GPS’s are though)<\/li>\r\n
- Bluetooth real-time communication (can make a PDA into a powerful GPS)<\/li>\r\n
- USB real-time communication (can make a laptop into an even more powerful GPS)<\/li>\r\n
- Screen (unlike most data loggers)<\/li>\r\n
- Car, usb, and house power charging<\/li>\r\n
- Fairly cheap<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>
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\r\nNow so I don’t sound like a total shill, I did have a few problems with it: <\/p>\r\n
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- I never tried the bluetooth so I can’t vouch for that. <\/li>\r\n
- The USB connection to a laptop worked easily and well. Except for one time when the mapping software decided to plot it’s location about a minute off from the true location being displayed on the GPS. I assume this was some sort of input setting in the mapping software that got messed up because it only happened once.<\/li> \r\n
- It doesn’t like fog. Any thick fog caused it to lose it’s signal. I haven’t tried enough GPS’s to know if this is a common problem. The boat’s GPS did not lose its signal.<\/li>\r\n
- It really needs to be in a window. In a boat cabin it lost signal pretty quickly if it wasn’t right next to a window. Perhaps a car would have better luck though.<\/li> \r\n
- It went crazy a couple times and decided I was moving 999 miles per hour to an incorrect location. Turning it off and on did fix this immediately and it appears that the recorded log did not show this.<\/li>\r\n
- The battery only lasted about 14 hours for me (10 second logging if it that mattered). I didn’t test this rigorously though since after the first failure I kept it plugged in. It’s also possible the non-Bluetooth version would last longer. This could be a problem for real wilderness applications since the battery is internal and you can’t carry spares.<\/li>\r\n
- It can’t display maps. I didn’t buy it planning on that but I thought I better mention it.<\/li>\r\n
- A minor annoyance is that if it loses signal, it no longer displays your track or last know position. This could be bad if you were say lost in the fog.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n
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\r\nSo overall I was very satisfied with it. I was just looking for a GPS logger and all the extra features were icing. After three months of almost daily logging on the ocean, it still appears to be working perfectly. I would be worried about battery life if I was going for a long outdoor adventure but it’s great for boat or car trips. It also works very well as a USB plug in for a laptop with mapping software but can still function independently. And the logged track looks very good. I can see where we stopped to do some work and see the path we went through the islands. So if you’re looking for a very basic handheld GPS combined with a very good logger and Bluetooth and USB connectable, this is your gadget.<\/p> \r\n
1\/21\/2007-Edit: There’s another NaviGPS review<\/a> up and if you’re looking to use the NaviGPS with Linux<\/a> it looks like he’s put some work into that too.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This summer I needed a GPS logger for some field work. After looking through a few different possibilities, none of which were particularily satisfying, I finally found the (ununiquely named) NaviGPS GPS from GPS Central for $200 Canadian. At the time, there weren’t any reviews of it online. I’ve come to depend on reviews whenever […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[83,78,80,79,77,75,82,76,81,85,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}