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Foretrex 301 Portable GPS System
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The new Foretrex 301 is an brilliant product (not to be confused with the ancient Foreunner 301 also presumably OK– even Garmin sometimes gets them mixed up.)
The improved GPS receiver is very fine — you can get reception while driving, wearing it on your wrist. Fuctions are much like those of the obsolete eTrex, plus new things, such as a compass heading readout.
The vendor, Mountain Gear, is very excellent, with extremely prompt shipment, and their customer service, in the unlikely event you need it, it also brilliant.
Software is not furnished with the Foretrex 301.
The Foretrex 301 acts as a hard drive on your computer, through the USB port. Unfortunately, I know of no Garmin software that recognizes the Foretrex 301. But, Garmin’s Trip and Waypoint Manager running on Windows XP Professional (and presumably Vista) will read Foretrex 301 data using the File option on the manager, so waypoints etc., can be read, mapped, and stored on your computer. This is not obvous, but simple to use specifying the GPX format.
Oddly, the Trip and Waypoint Manager does not work properly on the Microsoft VirtualXP under Windows 7, and the software is not yet supported for Windows 7 and will not run on it (I am using manager version 3).
My husband is in the military and wanted it sent to him in the desert. I am not really sure to be honest with you how simple it is to use or how compatible the software is but once he gets back I can question
On the plus side, you can wear it like a watch (although it’s too huge for most sleeves), takes normal batteries, has a usb port, and seems sensitive and rugged. (Might buys satellites a few seconds quicker than my ancient Venture HC). Acceptable trade offs are, low res mono screen, no maps, no style. The crippled tracks, but, are not. You can’t just have them showing on the screen, you have to be in the process of “navigating” one. When you are on any part of the ONE track that is allowed onscreen, your distance and eta is based exclusively on the end point(s) of the track. The wrist band is tight and the stitching is off at points. It comes with an extra band for wearing over clothes, which you may need to do, but looks dreadful (and gets furry). There is a crash bug at one point in the menus (avoidable after some experimentation). The “mass storage” is very small (4 mb, as in mega, not giga). No program I know can write to the active log (but GPS Trackmaker can read).