GPSFix

If you haven’t heard by now REI’s Anniversary sales starts today.  This deal on the GPSMAP62s for $279.99 caught my eye so I thought I would pass it along.  The sale runs until May 30th.

Zagg’s timing on this product could have been better.  About two weeks ago I dropped my 62s on a gravel drive and dinged the screen — I’m sure one of these would have prevented the damage given my experience using these on my 60csx, Colorado, Oregon and Dakota.  I guess I shouldn’t blame Zagg for [...]

Yesterday Groundspeak announced that they will approve chirp-enabled geocaches on geocaching.com, putting to rest a several day long chirp thread on the geocaching forums.  While Groundspeak prefers that cache hiders provide an alternate means of finding the cache, a chirp cache can be listed as a mystery cache with a new “wireless beacon attribute” if [...]

Updated 11/4/10: I’ve added a chirp FAQ page on the Garmin Oregon wiki if you are looking for more detailed help with your chrip. After getting my hands on a Garmin chirp this morning I’ve been able to play with the tiny transmitter to see exactly how it works. The chirp is a simple wireless [...]

Updated 8:00am: Garmin product page for chirp is available. That was quick.  After last night’s flurry around the Garmin chirp, Garmin has posted an announcement for the new wireless geocaching beacon on their blog this morning.  A few items to note: Price of the chirp is noted as $22.99 Size: 1.3″ x 0.9″ x 0.3″ [...]

Garmin seems to be on the verge of announcing a tiny programmable wireless beacon that can transmit information to compatible Garmin GPS receivers.  The so called “chirp” seems to be aimed at geocache designers who are looking for something a little different with their next cache placement. To get an idea of how chirp might [...]

I was hoping for a something new when the GPSMAP 62 FCC photos became available, but as we anticipated the GPSMAP 62 looks like another STM Cartesio design, similar to the Oregon, Dakota and now the GPSMAP 78 that we’ve been testing for the last two weeks.   FCC internal images show a similar cluster of [...]