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Hopperdhh(at)aol.com
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:21 am Post subject: Garmin Foretrex 101 -- great cheap GPS

I hesitate to post this to these sophisticated lists, but I can't resist!

  

 Last week I bought a Garmin Foretrex 101 GPS at ALDI (a grocery store) for $59.95.  It will operate about 15 hours on two AAA batteries and weighs about 3 ounces, and has a 12 channel receiver with WAAS.  It has NEMA out which means it could conceivably send data to an autopilot -- I don't have the serial cable to try this yet.

  

 Yesterday I tried it out in my RV-7A on a 50 mile trip.  Wow!  It worked perfectly.  You have to program the airports manually out of the Airport Directory, but you can assign an airplane icon and name them with the identifiers, etc.  It will hold up to 500 waypoints.  You can set the units to NAUTICAL for speed and distance.  It may be possible to download a data base from a PC since it has the serial interface.

  

 This is an amazing little GPS.

  

 Dan Hopper

 Walton, IN



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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: Garmin Foretrex 101 -- great cheap GPS

In a message dated 6/11/2007 4:25:11 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  Hopperdhh(at)aol.com writes:

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		  Last    week I bought a Garmin Foretrex 101 GPS at ALDI (a grocery store) for    $59.95 	


 

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 My brief search for this product shows $129.00 retail. $60 only at  ALDI?

  

 ~Den~

Bothell,  WA



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Hopperdhh(at)aol.com
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:40 am Post subject: Garmin Foretrex 101 -- great cheap GPS

Den,

 

Yep, I wouldn't lie!  They said it was a special purchase.  Our local stores 

are sold out now, but hopefully someone will find a store that still has some. 

 ALDI does not list telephone numbers.  In the store, just ask for GPS.  The 

Foretrex 101 is the only one they have had that I know of.

 

The Foretrex 201 is a better model (more expensive).  It is very similar but 

with rechargeable battery and a serial cable included.  I haven't seen it but 

the manuals that you can download from the Garmin sight are almost identical.

 

do not archive

 

Dan

 

 

In a message dated 6/11/2007 3:14:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, 

DENNCO2(at)aol.com writes:

In a message dated 6/11/2007 4:25:11 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 

Hopperdhh(at)aol.com writes:

Last week I bought a Garmin Foretrex 101 GPS at ALDI (a grocery store) for 

$59.95

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My brief search for this product shows $129.00 retail. $60 only at ALDI?



~Den~

Bothell, WA



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