Marine GPS Data Logger
Pete Lawson
catch as it comes on board. What I can't find is anything with big buttons (for
cold, gloved hands on a pitching deck) and programmable. I envision an event-
driven device: assign a meaning to each button (species, size, disposition) and
record time, location, maybe sea-surface temperature, upon pushing the button.
I have tested the idea with a notebook PC and a Magellan Nav 5000 -- it works
fine. Now I would like to get the same functionality in one small box.
Any ideas?
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Harry Banbury
Lawson) wrote:
> I want to put GPS data loggers on fishing boats to enable the crew to record
> catch as it comes on board. What I can't find is anything with big buttons (for
> cold, gloved hands on a pitching deck) and programmable. I envision an event-
> driven device: assign a meaning to each button (species, size, disposition) and
> record time, location, maybe sea-surface temperature, upon pushing the button.
> I have tested the idea with a notebook PC and a Magellan Nav 5000 -- it works
> fine. Now I would like to get the same functionality in one small box.
>
> Any ideas?
>
The Eagle or Lowrance AccuNav would certainly be worth investigating.
You can put it in plot mode and whenever you want to record a location,
you can hit the <F6> button twice and it will save your current Lat/Long
into the next available waypoint and it will tag the plot with the waypoint
number on the plotted trail. You can then save the entire plotted trail
and
refer to it latter. You can store 200 waypoints and 10 trails. You can
also
connect the GPS to acomputer latter and download/uploads waypoints
between the computer and the GPS. There is a great windows program
called WINGPS that will has a waypoint/route database and will allow you
to plot the waypoints and overlay them on top of a scanned in chart.
The difference between the Eagle & the Lowrance is that the Lowrance
has charting capabilities with a built in GROSS chart of the US and an
interface that you can plug in detailed C-MAP cartridges into. Eagle is
selling for about $475 and the Lowrance is quite a bit more expensive,
around $800 as I recall.