Fri, 8 May 1998 20:51:32 +0100
- Message No. 2929
From: VIPER-1@universal.nl (Fels R. Th.B.)
Subject: AW: re hand held GPS units
Hello there,
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Van: Jorn Ronnow
Verzonden: vrijdag 8 mei 1998 15:04
Aan: xrv@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de
Onderwerp: Re: (XRV) 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
I don't understand the speedlimit problem on the cheaper GPS systems??
I don't have a problem there. (Only that my Twin doesn't go faster than 185).
My GPS is a Garmin 38 with software version 3.05.
It did show the 185 Km/h speed and without problems.....
Greetings from The Netherlands,
Raymond Fels.

dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de