1. Best antenna?
I noticed people touting the diamond srh320a are there any other antenna suggestions? If you get an antenna meant for just dual or a single range is it going to have a significantly higher gain? any good sites for handheld antennas?
2. Has anyone transmitted APRS in the GMRS range to see if it works with the Garmin Rino?
I have friends/family with Garmin Rino's they can transmit APRS messages in the FRS/GMRS band ex. Garmin channel 1 is 462.5625
3. GPS -> the FGPS-2 is a 12 channel GPS, but...
Does anyone know if it is DGPS or WAAS capable?
Has anyone opened one up to take a look at what it looks like inside? if so please post photos...
Or have you tried to power it without the handheld and hook up some leads to see the raw NMEA sentences it is transmitting?
I'd like to be able to know the current position estimated accuracy (based on # of satellites) reception but don't see it as something it will show from the manual (page 76) has anyone found it to be shown anywhere?
Lastly it looks to only have accuracy reporting up to a hundredth of a nautical mile (.320 or .330) no thousandths place (.321). Anyone find it doing thousandths? I ask this because there is a big difference between hundreths and thousandths... for geocaching etc. hundreths gives you ~60 ft accuracy and thousandths gives you ~6ft accuracy (i know there is still error but at least you are starting from something an order of magnitude better!)
I have good reasons for all of these questions.. but don't want to bore you with the specifics. I am very much going to buy one soon, but just don't know if I want to even bother with the GPS it comes with and instead work on a mod to attach a more accurate external GPS.
I noticed people touting the diamond srh320a are there any other antenna suggestions? If you get an antenna meant for just dual or a single range is it going to have a significantly higher gain? any good sites for handheld antennas?
2. Has anyone transmitted APRS in the GMRS range to see if it works with the Garmin Rino?
I have friends/family with Garmin Rino's they can transmit APRS messages in the FRS/GMRS band ex. Garmin channel 1 is 462.5625
3. GPS -> the FGPS-2 is a 12 channel GPS, but...
Does anyone know if it is DGPS or WAAS capable?
Has anyone opened one up to take a look at what it looks like inside? if so please post photos...
Or have you tried to power it without the handheld and hook up some leads to see the raw NMEA sentences it is transmitting?
I'd like to be able to know the current position estimated accuracy (based on # of satellites) reception but don't see it as something it will show from the manual (page 76) has anyone found it to be shown anywhere?
Lastly it looks to only have accuracy reporting up to a hundredth of a nautical mile (.320 or .330) no thousandths place (.321). Anyone find it doing thousandths? I ask this because there is a big difference between hundreths and thousandths... for geocaching etc. hundreths gives you ~60 ft accuracy and thousandths gives you ~6ft accuracy (i know there is still error but at least you are starting from something an order of magnitude better!)
I have good reasons for all of these questions.. but don't want to bore you with the specifics. I am very much going to buy one soon, but just don't know if I want to even bother with the GPS it comes with and instead work on a mod to attach a more accurate external GPS.