Phil on November 17th, 2008

I got some road time on the GPS this weekend – I think it’s a winner.  It got me to my friend’s house in Aurora, through the re-vamped I-25/I-225 interchange (stuff like that is THE reason to buy new map upgrades, IMO.  If I was a tourist trying to get through the Mousetrap with a [...]

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Phil on November 14th, 2008

Well, the GPS does its thing, all right.  The MapSource routing software’s pretty frustrating, though.
My big complaint is that it doesn’t make it AT ALL easy to route you along a particular highway.  For example, going from Ft. Collins to Michigan it would like me to take little state highways out to Nebraska – claims [...]

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Phil on November 13th, 2008

I love being home when Santa comes.  I got the GPS in the mail over lunch.  Came with the latest firmware and 2008 maps, all accessories nicely packaged.  Garmin does a nice job of making their refurbs not look very refurbished.  Were it not for a sticker on the box that says “Newly Overhauled”, I’d [...]

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Phil on November 10th, 2008

I was browsing around some motorcycle forums and stumbled across a deal for a Garmin 2730 (refurbished) WITH the GXM30 XM antenna/receiver for $180 on eBay.
That’s an astonishingly good deal, even for a refurb – that antenna’s around $180 just by itself.
Seller’s got a lot of recent history, so it’s not likely to be a [...]

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