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Garmin 305 Tips - Article Updated and Group Created

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Badger
Badger
Apr 2008
7:54pm, 1 Apr 2008
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That might be a red herring - Fetch's course interpolates between the points that you put into the route (9 clicks just got me 45 trackpoints in the xml)
flanker
flanker
Apr 2008
11:12pm, 1 Apr 2008
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yep, it does seem to do 'clever' stuff like that.

but it's still a lot less points than memory map. I am never able to d/l MM courses or routes to the 305 - it reports out of memory and truncates (helpful!) the course. Not been bothered to work out why yet - it works fine on the 301 and the Legend. If anyone knows and wants to save me the effort...
Hendo
Hendo
Apr 2008
11:13pm, 1 Apr 2008
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I lost you after "stuff" flanks, sorry
flanker
flanker
Apr 2008
11:15pm, 1 Apr 2008
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you didn't miss much:-)
Badger
Badger
Apr 2008
11:58pm, 1 Apr 2008
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Phew. I've been standing on one leg for the last three hours.
Just looked at the Cambridge Boundary Run, which beeped exactly twice in 13.1 miles, once to say "off course" and two seconds later to say "back on course", and that has a trackpoint every 65 metres on average - even fewer than a Fetchtrack. Worked a treat.
island991
island991
Apr 2008
1:26pm, 12 Apr 2008
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anyone tried charging their 305 from a car? is there a car charger? thinking about using it for walking routes when camping for a few days but would need to charge it somehow.....
island991
island991
Apr 2008
1:33pm, 12 Apr 2008
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or a portable charging device? some kind of battery/rechargeable portable charging what-not........im not tech minded as you can tell!!
philbo
philbo
Apr 2008
2:15pm, 12 Apr 2008
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I dont think their is a car charger Island , I've just had a look on the Garmin site .
Hendo
Hendo
Apr 2008
2:16pm, 12 Apr 2008
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Mine charges from my laptop, which is portable....
flanker
flanker
Apr 2008
3:25pm, 12 Apr 2008
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you can get solar powered chargers and portable chargers that run off 4 AA batteries, both of which can provide enough power to get through MdS, so probably OK for a weeks walking too.

And if walking in the UK, you wil probably have chance to buy new AAs too.

There are generic USB car chargers around too that shoudl do the job.

Or take a laptop with a car charger and charge it via that?

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