Clyde

On Jun 12, 5:31 am, Jack Erbes <jac...@midmaine.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the response, Jack.

The Meridian does seem to be what I'm looking for. But in checking
Magellan's home page, I find that about all they offer now is the
eXplorist series, and I don't know if they offer the "toggle
advantage."

Does Magellan still make the Meridians? I can't find hide nor hair of
'em on their website.

It's not for lack of trying: I called Magellan, but I could only talk
to someone whose expertise seemed limited to the particular eXplorist
he knew (each eXplorist model seems to have it's own tech group -- so
you're screwed if you want someone with some general knowledge of
which features various Magellans have). Plus, the guy I talked to
didn't quite seem to understand what I was after.

I've tried reading a couple of on-line manuals from Garmin and
Magellan, but again, no luck.

Which is why I decided to ask here -- if anyone out there is really
into GPS receivers and their features, I figure they probably lurk or
post here.

Thanks again,

Clyde