Thread: GPS Receiver - USB or Bluetooth?

When you drive a Land Rover that is what the giraffe windows are for, my receiver USB type sits inside under one of the giraffe windows (alpine lights) works fine no wires going out or rain etc.
Dennis

Check this place out GPSOZ - for all your GPS requirements.

I'm sure they will be able to help.

Originally Posted by dennisS1

When you drive a Land Rover that is what the giraffe windows are for, my receiver USB type sits inside under one of the giraffe windows (alpine lights) works fine no wires going out or rain etc.
Dennis

I never thought of that... that's a good tip, thanks Dennis!

I recently bought one of these (see pic)

brilliant thing, mag base sticks to roof, and very waterproof (drove over an hour 100km/h in a downpour with it still connected and working.

I use OziExplorer and found it very accurate.

good price too, $68

GlobalSat BU-353 USB GPS mouse receiver G-sat - eBay, GPS, Electronics. (end time 21-Apr-08 06:51:13 AEST)

good luck

My bluetooth one came from jaycar. Sometimes it disconnects, actually a lot of the time it just seems to drop out. I have had this problem on both laptop and pda so it isn't 's problem as I thought the pda.

This is not just my experience, I have spoken to many people who g thorugh the same thing. The biggest issue with this is when you don't notice and your trying to log a track or make a route and you miss a few km's of it.

Xav

Originally Posted by simonl8353

I recently bought one of these (see pic)

brilliant thing, mag base sticks to roof, and very waterproof (drove over an hour 100km/h in a downpour with it still connected and working.

I use OziExplorer and found it very accurate.

good price too, $68

I'll vote for the BU-353 as well. I have mine mounted under the dash in the freelander 2 and it is still very accurate and quick to aquire a signal.

I briefly thought about a Bluetooth one, but having to charge it or connect it to a power source kind of defeats the purpose of it being wireless.

Originally Posted by simonl8353

I recently bought one of these (see pic)

brilliant thing, mag base sticks to roof, and very waterproof (drove over an hour 100km/h in a downpour with it still connected and working.

I use OziExplorer and found it very accurate.

good price too, $68

GlobalSat BU-353 USB GPS mouse receiver G-sat - eBay, GPS, Electronics. (end time 21-Apr-08 06:51:13 AEST)

good luck

I like the look of that! I'm currently using my Garmin Etrex Summit handheld which is a bit cumbersome and I need to remember to put batteries in it, etc.

I was wondering if this will work with the 2 Garmin software products I use (MapSource & nRoute) because I know that the Garmin software specifically looks for a Garmin device for it to work.

Is one of the protocols listed for this device Garmin specific?

I think I read about a patch / program that can be installed to fool the Garmin software to think it's still connected to the Garmin device even when it isn't, but I've not been able to find anything just yet.

Jon

I have a laptop and gps mouse and works fine anywhere in the car.

Recently bought a Nokia Phone that is compatible with a Blue tooth GPS mouse. The blue tooth mouse also works well anywhere in the car or in the house and connects easily to both phone and computer. Batteries take 3 hours to charge and is advertised to run for 20hours and uses the same charger as the phone - no problem except that the battery only lasts about 8 hours and about four days after getting it the bluetooth side died but it still picks up the satellites. So I have a GPS reciever that cannot communicate to anything. They are cheap $50 so am getting another one that is also solar charging as well as power charging and is advertised to run for 30 hours between charges.

On a side issue a Bluetooth GPS will not connect to more than one appliance at a time - I was hoping it would talk to the phone and laptop in the car at the same time but it doesn't - only connects to the first one. I thought it might just broadcast trannsmit and not need two way comms with the phone or laptop but they are obviously talking to each other all the time when connected.

Garry