Navigation & Audio Finally a GPS that works... Sort of.
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To acquire satellites you’ll have to set the region you are located in so the GPS knows what ones to look at. It should be part of the initial setup of the GPS. Once set you will never have to change it unless to take it to a different region of the world. It may take a bit before it locates them the first time but after that should find then in a minute or less.
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I have a Magellen in my car and a Lowrance on my motorcycle. Both work great. Just enter the address of your destination and it will tell you how to get there. You can even program them to avoid toll roads, interstates, use shortest distance or shortest time... I like both of mine.
Both also will locate points of intersest, like gas stations and restaurants (sorted by distance or type).
I did not have to program anything with the satelites. I just turned them on and they found the current location.
Both also will locate points of intersest, like gas stations and restaurants (sorted by distance or type).
I did not have to program anything with the satelites. I just turned them on and they found the current location.
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I got a Garmin StreetPilot i5 (http://www.garmin.com/products/spi5/) for my wife. It is slick! This is truely a marriage savior. I am no longer wrong when the directions are not correct.
I did set the voice for the British accent. My wife calls the thing Ms. Garmin when talking about it.
The only down side I found is that I have not found a "mark this spot" button. This would be useful if I am out in the middle of no where and wanted to get back to the same spot. It may be in the program and I have just not found it yet.
John
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I did set the voice for the British accent. My wife calls the thing Ms. Garmin when talking about it.
The only down side I found is that I have not found a "mark this spot" button. This would be useful if I am out in the middle of no where and wanted to get back to the same spot. It may be in the program and I have just not found it yet.
John
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I got mine for the fact that I can plug her into a spot wedged under the tach and on top of the steering column. And it pretty much did all I needed it to do. I can't get the dinking thing to work off my Mac (even with SoftWIndows running) but I have a PC around that does the job so.
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Now to hook it into the sound system and power and I'm 100%.
By the way, I call her "Moneypenny".
And yeah, I almost went into a one way in San Fran. Not good. It's also good to keep the freshest maps on it, as it had me positioned about 50' off a bridge that was "moved" last year. Thought my MINI was running on water!!
![](http://hallowcreek.com/mangoland/_here/Mini/GPSincar.jpg)
Now to hook it into the sound system and power and I'm 100%.
By the way, I call her "Moneypenny".
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