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Nice Unit, Bad Support
The review is more for how well Garmin handles/supports their product.. E-mailed their tech support a few days ago because my new 60CSX isn't indicating a "D" fix (WAAS)or any signal from a PRN above 30. Got this in reply: "I'll be glad to help. The new SiRF units are not really capible of obtaining a WAAS fix at this time. Alone, the units can get down to 6-7 feet of accuracy without WAAS, and according to engineers, even with WAAS the correction is less than 6 inches at best. At this time, I am not sure if they will go though the effort to make the units work with WAAS or not. Most likely the option will be dropped with future updates because of the lack of benefit." Umm right.. First of all the box indicates that it's WAAS enabled, the website says it's WAAS enabled, and there are gobs of other users on the Groundspeak forums who are getting DGPS fixes and much better EPE's than I am. My older units are outperforming circles around this thing. It has some of the worst positional drift that I've seen in a HH GPSr. (sitting on a chair in my backyard for 30 minutes this afternoon, the trip odometer logged .6 miles) As such, I've had it for a couple of weeks and consider it not much more than a pretty paper weight. The unit has excellent TTFF, is great to look at/use in any condition. But having been sold on a WAAS unit only to have a tech rep tell me that the packaging doesn't match the product gets me a little riled up. Truth in advertising anyone? I'm gunna confirm this issue with others at Garmin, and if what the rep told me winds up being true, I'm going to pursue it with the FTC....
April 2006 · Electronics
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Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Navigator (Discontinued by Manufacturer)
4.6★ · 860 ratings, as of 2023
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