From waypoint@pacific.net.sg Sun Aug 26 09:02:29 PDT 2001 Article: 4382 of sci.geo.satellite-nav From: w a y p o i n t Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: Garmin 12XL versus 48 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:57:08 +0800 Organization: S T I N G R A Y - F I G H T I N G 5s Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3B8881A4.70EFEA83@INFANTRY.com> References: <7c2f986b.0108251333.492ade9c@posting.google.com> <3B881FAD.1A8F4153@qubicle.com> Reply-To: w a y p o i n t NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp135.dyn120.pacific.net.sg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB,en-US,zh,zh-CN,zh-TW Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!newsserver.pacific.net.sg!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:4382 The only major thing I really don't like about the newer range of GARMIN handheld units is the lack of the 16-character comment that came with every saved waypoint. They stopped having it from the new eTrex onwards. Frankly, it's about the only thing that's stopping me >from getting the GPSMAP76/ GPS76. The lack of WAAS capability is no big issue since we don't have it here *YET* in Singapore. Regards, Collin... ========================= GPS? - N1°23.368' E103°54.399' (WGS84) ICQ - I am one only, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. Just because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do. =========================