🌲 Adventure Awaits: Your Ultimate Hiking Companion!
The Magellan SporTrak Pro Waterproof Hiking GPS is a high-performance navigation device featuring a 12-channel GPS receiver with WAAS technology for precise location tracking. It includes a 9 MB North American basemap and 23 MB of memory for additional maps, all housed in a rugged, waterproof design with a user-friendly interface.
M**H
Love
Still have. Love it
H**Y
Did not work.
Refurbished GPSr would not acquire signal. Blue House used WAY TOO MUCH plastic packaging which all had to go into a landfill. USE PAPER PACKAGING!
B**N
Just an amazing technological marvel
After researching handheld mapping GPS units for weeks, the choice came to this or the Garmin Etrex Vista. The latter got eliminated after I read all the horror stories about the problems it has catching satellite signals. The Garmin unit has a couple of extra features (such as "road lock" and an aneroid barometer), but also costs at least [more money]. And anyways, I couldn't understand what the point of having those extra features was if I was not going to pick up any satellite signals!This is one impressive piece of hardware. It is very ergonomical and has a good feeling in one's hand. You can operate it with one hand, and the wrist strap comes in handy so that you don't have to worry about dropping it. The buttons are laid out very logically and the operation is simple and easy to understand. The screen is easy to read and you can adjust the level of detail on the map screens to eliminate unwanted clutter.The unit is amazingly sensitive and manages to get signals from 8 or 9 satellites under most circumstances (including inside my house). It is frighteningly accurate both in terms of position as well as speed. Backtracking back to my vehicle after a long walk was a breeze with this unit (though, to be honest, I already knew the route. I just used the GPS for fun and made sure it wasn't asking me to do stupid things!).You do have to remember that this unit can not do automatic routing for you using its built-in or uploaded maps. If you want units with those capabilities, you have to go for dash-mounted units that cost $$$ more. But the map information in this unit is good enough for most reference purposes. The 9MB basemap is quite detailed with most major roads and highways well-marked. The 23MB additional space for maps uploaded from Mapsend CD's is quite spacious. I uploaded the rectangular region bounded by Milwaukee in the north, Peoria in the south, Galena in the west and Grand Rapids in the east into the unit and it occupied only 11MB (it did take 20 minutes to do the upload because of the slow serial connection).My only complaint regarding the unit is that it sometimes shows me driving where there is no road, and then the road gets displayed when I go into a higher level of zoom. I don't know what the criteria are for whether a given road is displayed at a given level of zoom, but the algorithm is not very intelligent or adaptive.Also, make sure you stock up on rechargeable batteries. I have to recharge my batteries after every 10 hours of use (the manual says 15 hours, but I think that is only with alkaline batteries).Bottomline: I think this is the most capable GPS unit at this price point.
D**R
Amazing device
This is the second GPS receiver I've owned. I started out with a Magellan 315, which was perfectly good for most purposes. (I actually have no REALLY good reason to have a GPS receiver, but I've always loved orienteering and maps and related stuff ever since I was a Scout, many years ago.) However, lately I discovered geocaching, and the 315 just didn't seem to do the job, whether it was because of cloud cover or tree cover or my own inexperience, so I upgraded. I like this one very much. It feels "natural" in your hand, and the grip is secure (and it has a wrist loop, just in case). Under most conditions where I've used it, it's extremely accurate, particularly when it can set up WAAS averaging.I gave it four stars. One, no Mac compatibility, although I understand there's a work-around. Two, I drive a principal highway regularly, and the track, compared with the base map, always shows me at least 50 feet off the highway. I left tracking on for a dozen trips, and my track was always about 50 feet off their base map. Fifty feet is quite a bit when the claim is accuracy within three meters. (And yes, I'm using Magellan's default map datum, so it should correspond with their base map.)All that being said, I'm very pleased with the device. BTW, if you use it in the car, spring for the cigarette lighter external power cord. A data cable comes in the package, so PC users can download or upload waypoints, or even track their route on a laptop in the car, but I find the power cable more useful. There's a combination cable, too -- both data and external power.
F**K
Accurate GPS unit but has some problems
I bought the SporTrack Pro GPS about a month ago. The first thing I did was to download the new 3.02 software from the Magellan site. Follow the instructions and you won't have any problems. The second thing I noticed was that the database map is at least 5 years out of date and downloading data from the optional CD ROM helps some but its still old inaccurate data. I drove downtown (20 miles) then used the GPS to get me back home. Most if the time the unit showed me off the road but it did get me back to within 9ft of where I started. I also noticed that the unit emits a high pitch sound when the light is turned on and gets louder when the light is set to high. I phoned Magellan and told them about the high pitch sound and they asked me to return the unit to the vendor. After getting a new unit guess what, it emitted the same annoying sound when the light is turned on. I went down to my local store and asked to see the same GPS unit. They all emitted that high pitch sound when the light is turned on. I'm sure folks who use it out in the wilderness want every animial to hear them coming half a mile way. If I had to do it all over again, I'd go with another manufacture. The vendor was great to bad I can't say the same about the manufacture (Magellan). Magellan, your customers don't mine paying more for up to date software but they hate paying for obsolete data at any price. Magellan, get it together because your SporTrack Pro unit can be a real winner if you get your Mapsend data updated.
F**K
Internal Map Not Accurate
This is my third GPS and I generally like the features and screens. The built-in map, however, is terrible. It contains major errors that are inexcusable. For example, the Parks Highway - the main route from Anchorage to Denali is labled as another highway. Roads and trails in Denali also way off. Near our home in Arizona, the Map calls the Verde River the Salt River, which is nearby, but way different for navigation purposes. Mapsend maps are better - but not good enough to rely on 100%, which is what you want in a GPS. Magellan could solve this problem by spending a little more for higher quality maps.
B**E
Did not work!
Did not work!
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