DeLorme is great!

[Lloyd Smale]

I decided to go with there gps and called there company and talked to a service man there and told him i was about dumb with a computer. To say he helped is an understatement. I dont even have to download into the unit. For a 120 bucks extra hes taking two cards and filling them with all the maps for my camp area and my home area (arials topos quads and satalite) and one one hes putting there program with all of michigan on it too. I still get another blank card and an additional credit for a 100 bucks worth of arial and sat images. To say that the guy i delt with was a good rep. is probably the biggest understatement ive ever made. He spent about an hour on the phone zeroing in on my camp. (i didnt even have the lat and long) If you know me i would have spent days doing what he did even if i could have figured out how. Hell it was about as much fun as talking to a custom gunsmith to design a new custom sixgun!! I dont know gps units and dont know if what i bought was near as good as a gamblin but with that kind of customer service theyll have a customer for life.

[Siskiyou]

Lloyd,
 
I guess you know you are now the closes thing we have to being a DeLorme expert.

Looking forward to you experiences using the unit on your home turf.  The DeLorme packages look like they come in at a competitive price.

http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10106

[longwinters]

Well Lloyd, I hope you get a lot of use out of it.  It sounds like they do all they can to make it user friendly.

Long

[Lloyd Smale]

im lmao at that one! Expert!! Hell its going to take me 2 weeks to figure out how to turn it on!!

Lloyd,
 
I guess you know you are now the closes thing we have to being a DeLorme expert.

Looking forward to you experiences using the unit on your home turf.  The DeLorme packages look like they come in at a competitive price.

http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10106

[Siskiyou]

Lloyd,

If you have not seen it this is a good video link on how to use your new gps.  It even shows you how to open the box and a lot more, including how to turn it on.  Batteries provided.   A good get started video.

Earthmate GPSŪ PN-20 Getting Started Video 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7gJQyh9Hjg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQC30tZBWP8

I found these well done.

[Lloyd Smale]

ive got it in hand and fooled a little with it yesterday. It will lock on to a 3d fix in about 5 seconds inside my house and that impresses me. Its going to be a long learning curve with this thing. Theres just to much it will do. The only experience i have with any gps units is quite a few years ago i bought a very basic magellan and it wouldnt lock on to satalites in my front yard! It would work at camp but there better not be a tree in the way. I probably should have boughten a more basic unit to start with but in time ill get the hang of this thing.

[Siskiyou]

Lloyd I think you bought the right unit, forget that basic unit.

After watching the two videos about the the PN-20 I am enthused for you. 

[Lloyd Smale]

it is pretty cool. I can sit in my livingroom and see pictures of camp and scout for possible deer channel spots without even taking a step. Only possible compaint i could have with it is that when scrolling a arieal picture or a satalite pic its a little slow producing a map. But then ive got nothing to compare it to. By slow i mean the screen will go blank for about a second. I guess were just to spoiled these days with computers with dsl.

[Martlet]

it is pretty cool. I can sit in my livingroom and see pictures of camp and scout for possible deer channel spots without even taking a step. Only possible compaint i could have with it is that when scrolling a arieal picture or a satalite pic its a little slow producing a map. But then ive got nothing to compare it to. By slow i mean the screen will go blank for about a second. I guess were just to spoiled these days with computers with dsl.

Are you loading the maps onto your memory card, or onto the unit memory?  The unit memory is quite large.  I have 3 hunting spots loaded on it, complete with USGS, sat, and aerial maps.  I always transfer to the unit memory and keep the card as back up.  I find the draw times are much faster that way.

[Lloyd Smale]

I had them fill up to cards with data from around my camp and around my house and about have a third filled up with data from my buddys camp. i havent even used any of the unit memory yet. I was told that the least ammount of internal memory you use the faster the machine will work.