GARMIN Announces Low Cost Fixed-Mount Marine GPS with WAAS

[Clifton T. Sharp Jr.]

Sam Wormley wrote:
> In addition to larger memory, the GPS 152 is compatible with the
> Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), a technology designed
> to improve the accuracy of GPS positioning to about three meters.
> [snip]
> Specific features of the GPS 152 include:
>
> WAAS capable for GPS accuracy to approximately three
> meters

There we go again. "IS COMPATIBLE WITH". "CAPABLE". How much will the add-on
cost?

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[Dale DePriest]

I suspect it doesn't cost anything. The 152 looks like a repackaged
etrex unit that already supports WAAS. I suspect all new units from
Garmin will support WAAS but of course this is just a quess.

Dale

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[Dave Martindale]

the newsgroup writes:

>>The GPS 152 is a 12 parallel channel GPS receiver loaded with a
>>database of worldwide cities and U.S. nautical navigation aids such
>>as lights, buoys, sound signals, day beacons and tide data. Built-in

>Can anyone explain to me what is a "fixed mount marine" unit going to do
>with a database of world cities?. Does Garmin expect anyone to be sailing
>the streets of beautifull downtown Durbin or Warsaw?

It's OBVIOUSLY for mounting in land yachts - you know, things with
names like Cadillac and Lincoln.

Dave

[Dave Martindale]

the newsgroup writes:

>>It's OBVIOUSLY for mounting in land yachts - you know, things with
>>names like Cadillac and Lincoln.

>Duh, of course, like HMCS Fearless, home port Calgary ...

Is that like HMCS Discovery just off Stanley Park? For non-locals,
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Discovery belongs to the Canadian Navy,
and is commissioned as a ship - in terms of having the usual hierarchy
of command for a ship. However, the geographic reality is that it's
a small island in Vancouver Harbour.

So it's a "ship", but I don't imagine they have much need of navigational
equipment.

While land yachts, on the other hand, *do* move around from time to time.
Sometimes it seems that the drivers need navigational aids even to stay
in their own lane.

Dave

[Peter Halls]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Karl Pollak wrote:

> x-no-archive: yes

> da...@cs.ubc.ca (Dave Martindale) wrote:
>
> >Is that like HMCS Discovery just off Stanley Park? For non-locals,
> >Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Discovery belongs to the Canadian Navy,
> >and is commissioned as a ship - in terms of having the usual hierarchy
> >of command for a ship. However, the geographic reality is that it's
> >a small island in Vancouver Harbour.
>

> Actually, the concept of a "landship" is common to both the Canadian Navy
> and the Canadian Sea Scouts.

And possibly inherited from the (British) Royal Navy who have done the
same for shore establishments for centuries.

Indeed I gather that during WW2 there were many German claims to have sunk
HMS whatevers, clearly obtained from a list that did not differntiate, and
so to have sunk shore bases - including some in teh centre of the island!

P.

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