[geeks] Good, cheap GPS?

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:03:55PM +0000, William Enestvedt wrote:
> Ten to twenty minutes? Good heavens! Either you live at the bottom of a well,
> or _anything_ will be an improvement for you!

Don't remind me! ;-)

Checking quickly, the Etrex 10 looks like a great little unit. I could
afford a new one. Price here from retail stores is about 210 bucks. On Ebay
looks like I could get one for around 120 including shipping if the customs
guys here don't grab it and ransom it on the way in.

They charged me ten bucks to ransom a laptop drive that was sent as a
warranty replacement from China, so I never know...

>    It's like this: I have a DeLorme PN-20 handheld that takes, oh... five
> minutes to get a lock, most days -- and I consider this slow. (It was pretty
> expensive when it was new, like $250 on sale.) I have since replaced it with a
> PN-60, their current model -- which is a few years old now -- which locks on
> in perhaps a minute.

That's great. I'd be real happy with a minute, even a couple minutes with a
solid, accurate report would be fine.

>    The Geocaching.com web site has a discussion board, with a "Garage Sale"
> section where you can go to get a feel for what things might cost these days:
>         http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=13
>    Looking at it right now, someone is selling an original etrex for $40.
> *shrug* I am not saying you should buy that particular thing, but it's an
> example of what's available. (You could certainly sign up for the free account
> and then go into the section on GPS Hardware and ask for suggestions -- but
> like any other specialist forum, you'll likely get "upsold" pretty
> quickly.

Thanks a lot. Lots of stuff to read up on.