[50mhz] Garmin GPS

[Ray Brown]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stanley" <staniw@abq.com>

> Hi All You Six Meter Experts:

  And a Happy Christmas to you. :-)

> I need help (no, not just psychiatric). Santa Claus brought me a new
> Garmin eTrex Legend GPS with WAAS enabling, and it is a little
> beauty. Works great: EXCEPT, no matter what I do, I can't get it to read
> position in GRIDS instead of Lat/Long. All else is perfect.
> I have read the instruction manual and there is a Menu Function wherte
> you can change the "Units" but no mention of  "British
> Maidenhead". Boy, that is real frustrating. Antbody out there have one
> of these little gems and can tell this dumb old man how to
> use it???

  It's gotta be in there somewhere. I have a Garmin eTrex here that I bought
a couple of years ago. (I was planning on doing APRS with it, but I'm using
my TravelMate instead. :-) I have (counting up)18 choices under my Units /
Position Format, and Maidenhead is just after Irish Grid. There IS a
British Grid on mine, if you really want to run in that mode. :-)

  So, methinks you want to go to the Maidenhead setting.

  BTW, I'm in EM27, but not QRV at the moment, getting ready to go out
for Christmas Day Brunch. :-)

                _Ray_        KB�STN