Fri, 08 May 1998 16:04:00 +0200 - Message No. 2927
From: Jorn Ronnow

Subject: Re: re hand held GPS units


At 18:23 98-05-05 +0100, Pete wrote:
>> Thanks for the help everyone, Ive just bought a GPS12, and I'm off to play
>> with it, shame about the 1500km/h limit guess I'll just have to take it
easy
>> on the @  still I'll save on fuel too I guess.  :)
>>
>> Pete

Sounds like a vast improvement: My old Garmin 45 has a 160 km/h limit, so
you'd have to back off a bit, some 1340 km/h, before reading your GPS
position. That's quite a nuisance: subsonic speeds suck!

The reason for the old 160 km/h limit is that Garmin wanted their cheaper
GPS units to be useless for aviation. The GPS was still reading the correct
position up to some 900 km/h, but it didn't display anything. Thus, Garmin
could sell almost identical "aviation models" without the speed limit, at a
much higher price.

The guys who got this idea probably never drove on the Autobahn, and
thought that 160 was a high speed (maybe it is by American standards?).
Anyway, the limit has never nothered me, so I guess I'm too slow even for
the old GPS :-)

Keep sliding (and mind the sound boom)
-Jorn


dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de