Although I’ve never completely understood the benefit of using WAAS in an outdoor handheld GPS there has been quite a bit of stir on the Oregon wiki about poor WAAS/EGNOS performance. We posted about the problems with WAAS when we first tested the Oregon 400 almost two years ago and reiterated the same concern on [...]
Like many other Oregon users I’ve been putting the beta 2.93 software through its paces since it was released a little over a week ago. The biggest change in 2.93 according to Garmin’s release notes is an improvement in GPS performance. After running a number of tests, several head-to-head against the Garmin 60csx, I would [...]
Last Tuesday Garmin released firmware for both the Oregon and Colorado which seemed to be aimed at providing GB Discoverer support on both platforms prior to the release of the new Garmin cartography product. The Oregon release also added several nice enhancements including date selection for tide and current charts and a battery saver [...]
Updated 12/8: New bug: 3D View does not work.
Updated 12/9: New bug: Relief shading always defaults to “Do not Show” even if set to “Show if Available” after power cycling
Updated 12/9: Some reported issues with the altimeter page not displaying data, although make sure the Track Log is set to one of the “Record” modes.
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After completing some recent GPS accuracy comparison tests between the Oregon and Colorado I thought it would be interesting to compare the two GPS units with WAAS/EGNOS enabled. Almost immediately I ran into issues. As noted in the Oregon Wiki Issues List I’ve observed problems with the Oregon acquiring WAAS/EGNOS.
This morning I watched [...]
