Jack Erbes

Clyde wrote:
> I have an old Magellan 4000XL which has a feature that I truly love --
> viz., 2 position pages -- a primary and a secondary one -- that you
> can toggle between using the arrow keys.
>
> What that means is that you don't have to work down to the setup menu
> to change your coordinate system from UTM to Lat/Lon, and then retrace
> your way back to the setup menu to return from Lat/Lon to UTM. You
> just use one press of an arrow key to go from one system to the other.
>
> I place a very high priority on having 2 position pages -- does anyone
> know if any current hand-held GPS receiver has that capability, and if
> so, which one that might be?
>

The Magellan Meridians had one page called the Position screen that is
probably similar to what you describe. That screen displayed your fix
in lat/long or whatever coordinate system selected from the setup up
menu at the top of it. If you pressed the right or left cursor pad
while on that page, the data in the center of that screen (date, time,
and fix/WAAS status) changed to display your fix in UTM coordinates.

So on that, you could see the lat/long and UTM locations at the same time.

That was a feature that was added in one of the software updates, I
don't think it was ever described in the manuals.

I have a 6000XL, the Meridians were a great leap forward from those.
The difference in speed was simply breathtaking at first. And having an
SD card for map storage was wonderful.

Jack