GPS Information » Vehicle GPS http://gps-information.com Information about all things GPS Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:50:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Garmin Fishfinder 340C is Awesome Fishfinder http://gps-information.com/gps-device/garmin-fishfinder-340c-is-awesome-fishfinder/ http://gps-information.com/gps-device/garmin-fishfinder-340c-is-awesome-fishfinder/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:26:19 +0000 GPS_User http://gps-information.com/gps/garmin-fishfinder-340c-is-awesome-fishfinder/ When it’s time to hit the high seas, you’ll want to make sure you’re equipped with the Garmin Fishfinder 340C. Featuring a brilliant 12-square-inch 256-color TFT display and an ultra-dim backlight mode of nighttime viewing, the Fishfinder 340C makes the job of reading the sonar displays as easy as it gets.
The Fishfinder 340C is enabled with Garmin’s new CANet — a one-megabit Controller Area Network that allows users to connect their unit to one of the new GPSMAP-series chartplotters. This allows boaters to read sonar displays on chartplotters located elsewhere in the boat and even adjust the settings from the plotter. Enhanced software features in the 340C include drift alarm, timers, and a temperature log that graphically records water temperature data. A new AutoGain technology allows users to see more fish, while an enhanced sounder design offers excellent shallow water performance. Garmin’s See-Thru technology shows weak and strong returns simultaneously, and the Fishfinder 340C includes both 2x and 4x automatic and manual zoom.

This compact unit measures 6.3 x 6.2 x 3.1 inches (WxHxD) and comes pre-loaded with over 15 user-interface languages and alarms for fish size, shallow water, deep water and low battery.

Note: This model does not include a transducer. Garmin also offers the Fishfinder 340C for salt water performance with a Dual Frequency configuration, and for inland anglers needing a wider fish-finding cone, the 340C is also offered as a Dual Beam model.

What’s in the Box
Fishfinder 340C, tilt/swivel mount, data/power cable, flush mount template, protective cover, flush mount hardware kit, owner’s manual, and quick-reference guide.
Technical Details

* Brilliant 12-square-inch 256-color TFT display and an ultra-dim backlight mode of nighttime viewing
* Garmin’s Controller Area Network allows you to connect compatible GPSMAP-series chartplotters
* Includes drift alarm, timers, and temperature log, and 2x and 4x automatic and manual zoom
* See-Thru technology shows weak and strong returns simultaneously; helps you see more fish
* Measures 6.3 x 6.2 x 3.1 inches (WxHxD)

]]> http://gps-information.com/gps-device/garmin-fishfinder-340c-is-awesome-fishfinder/feed/ 0 GPS Systems | What is GPS? http://gps-information.com/gps-system/gps-systems-what-is-gps/ http://gps-information.com/gps-system/gps-systems-what-is-gps/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:55:16 +0000 GPS_User http://gps-information.com/gps/gps-systems-what-is-gps/ GPS became fully operational in 1995 and since it’s introduction Global Positioning Systems have become one of the most widely used aids to worldwide navigation, land surveying, tracking and cartography. At the core of transportation systems such as aviation, maritime and land navigation is a GPS system. GPS provides accurate timing and locality and has become an essential tool in many commercial and agricultural industries too.

Offering a wide variety of functionality GPS Systems are becoming more and more popular in the worldwide transport industry and penetrating into the domestic markets with hand held models and car sat nav systems growing in unit sales year on year.

The most common types of satellite navigation equipment are:-

  • Portable Satellite Navigation Systems for cars
  • Handheld GPS systems
  • Mobile phone GPS
  • Built – in Satellite Navigation Systems for cars

GPS Systems or Global Positioning Systems to give them their full name are one of the worlds most widely utilised communication, positioning and time reference technologies, expanding into homes, transportation, recreation and cellular phone arenas. Increasingly Satellite technology is becoming a part of our every day lives.

By receiving coded reference points from a network of satellites circulating earth, GPS systems provide an exact location point on the globe.Producing reference points in longitude and lattitude giving detailed information dowm to minutes and seconds.

An example of a latitude specified in this way is 13°19’43″ N which is translated into 13 degrees 19 minutes and 43 seconds North.  The following are gps system results for well known global reference points:-

  • Arctic Circle: 66° 33′ 39″ N
  • Tropic of Cancer: 23° 26′ 21″ N
  • Tropic of Capricorn: 23° 26′ 21″ S
  • Antarctic Circle: 66° 33′ 39″ S

Whether you are on foot, in a car, on a bike…Satellite Navigation will come into play at some point during your journey through life.

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