By Garyk (Garyk) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 06:01 am: Edit

Where can you get a good deal on a portable GPS unit?

Gary

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 06:27 am: Edit

Internet.
But I bought mine from Sports Authority since they had a few there to look at. They are not cheap though. E-Trex was $130 there.

Dean

By gp (Garrett) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 06:42 am: Edit

$85 for a ETrek here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1271872526

By Mike B. on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 03:42 pm: Edit

What do you want to do with it? I.E. what features are you looking for?

Thanks,
Mike B.

By Wes Legaspi (Wes) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 03:49 pm: Edit

Try here...http://www.gpscity.com/

By Chris Welch (Asigiam) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 03:56 pm: Edit

I know this isn't the cheapest, but I use DeLorme Topo 3 with my laptop. It's the bomb. I'm ordering the USGS dvd rom for my state that has more info for 4 wheeling than I will probably ever use. Very cool stuff. Just for fun, check out the perfect laptop for this setup. I'm trying to talk my boss into "testing" this
http://www.panasonic.com/computer/notebook/html/01apdrc.htm
looks pretty cool

By Garyk (Garyk) on Wednesday, September 05, 2001 - 04:47 am: Edit

Thank you for all the suggestions. I checked out the web sites you guys gave me and found plenty of choices. I'm hoping to find a unit so I can follow GPS coordinates off road. It would be nice to have the road mapping system for my laptop as well. Chris, the panasonic unit is the coolest thing I have seen. It's a little too pricey for me at present but I would like to find something similar I can adapt to my laptop. Do you know of anything like that?

Gary

By Chris Welch (Asigiam) on Wednesday, September 05, 2001 - 11:53 am: Edit

you can find a toughbook on ebay sometimes or buy refurbished ones. You can use it as a touch screen laptop and just put some kind of mount for it up front. That's how I do my laptop now.

By Slider on Wednesday, September 05, 2001 - 05:16 pm: Edit

for the cheapest antenna deals try: gpsaccessories.com

tell Ed, Slider sent you...and your looking for the good price!!!

By ErikS on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 03:40 pm: Edit

I've got the delorme also. The gps receiver that works great is the earthmate. It has a 9 pin serial that will plug into your laptop or even a palm pilot. I use the palm on backpacking trips, and the laptop in the disco. You can get the software and receiver at delorme.com the cheapest.