Article: 25242 of sci.geo.satellite-nav From: Zork Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: Trimble Scoutmaster accuracy test Organization: None Reply-To: l8tb2wd6001@sneakemail.com Message-ID: References: <3CCA964A.A61D1D78@mindspring.com> <3CCABAB4.226F1B41@mindspring.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 26 Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:32:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.118.110.161 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telenet.be X-Trace: hestia.telenet-ops.be 1019921525 213.118.110.161 (Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:32:05 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:32:05 CEST Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!skynet.be!skynet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!hestia.telenet-ops.be.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:25242 On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:50:42 -0400, Nace wrote: >> I have been using my Trimble ScoutMaster for as along as I can >> remember and I am still impressed with the performance just one thing >> .. my LED display is worn out so useless when walking around with it. > >My display turns purple if I let the sun shine on it for very long, but it >goes away in a few minutes. It does have a slightly uneven purple cast to >the display, but nothing really troublesome. As mentioned earlier my display is almost gone. Still a great unit using it with my notebook so no need to look at the display for lat and long :-) >It's been such a great unit, I'm really sorry there aren't new Trimble >consumer handhelds...... I think I remember that I paid $637 for my >Scoutmaster in 1995 or 96, which seemed like an awful lot at the time. I bought mine in Singapore, the unit itself, power cable and data cable for 900 S$ 1994. GPS Pos : 51°02.171 N, 003°44.431 E, 6m (WGS84) Zork.