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Bought this to replace an old Meridian Gold. The color screen is more battery intensive but it is easier to distinguish details than the B&W. This unit provides a great amount of functionality and with a WAAS lock is very accurate horizontally. The controls are also large enough to use with gloved hands. It is a shame that they are no longer supported. I was also able to use an existing data card and it will store enough data from the TOPO USA program to handle 5 states, much of it with search capability. The unit is a little large for cell phone pockets etc but it does provide a nice screen size as well. The units are also very rugged, I had dropped my old unit several times, including in water and it just kept working- however it did not survive being run over. Overall, bought used at a quarter of the new price in 2004 it is a great bargain.Read full review
Top of the line when introduced in 2002, these units are still working with info that's in place now. Very good for Geocaching but eats batteries! Not sure if you (I) really need a color GPS. It's the color that sucks up the juice! The user manual is a MUST READ! Only 102 pages, but good info. Many key strokes require hold down time to access other screens. So on and so forth. Built tough!!! Slid off my dash and out the window of my car while making a turn onto the highway at about 25mph with a hard landing. It put a scuff mark on the rubber case but did not break or upset the electronics! WOW, I though I was going to have to get another one. My first UPS was a Garmin E-Trex. A good starter unit for Geocaching. When a friend showed me her Meridian I was impressed so I E-bayed one at a good deal. Did you ever drive a VW Beatle (E-Trex)? Well, the Meridian is like driving a Lexus! I know that there are better units out there for more $$$'s but for the money, this was a good buy.Read full review
Well, I bought this GPS new in 2004 at a retail store to replace a GPS 315 I got in 1994. I still have it and it works great. I have a preference to Magellan GPS's because I also had a Roadmate 700 that I gave to my dad, I got a TomTom to replace it. (This was only because mom got it for me for Christmas.) So back to the Meridian. First, I bought this Meridian because of the color screen. In 2004 this was the newest thing and I thought it was awesome. The colors are vibrant and it makes it very easy to distinguish items on the screen. The second selling point for me was the SD card slot. I installed a dedicated 512MB card just for my Meridian. I bought the TOPO USA software about 3 months after buying the GPS in 2004, it is awesome! It is somewhat hard to figure out at first, because the data cable is a 9-pin serial. So I bought a serial to USB adapter from Radio Shack, and this is probably the worse part of the setup because it needs a driver installed. So once it gets setup it is really cool though. You highlight a point on the map you want and download it to the card. Then going into the Meridians menu you load the map and viola, you have streets and TOPO data for the selected area. Other good features of the unit are the rugged casing, the large buttons, the SD slot is sealed within the battery door. This is both good and bad because you have to remove the batteries to access the card. The screen is large and well lit. As are the buttons. The screen are: 1. Satellite info screen and power bar. Also shows when WAAS satellites are enabled. 2. Map Screen shows installed map or downloaded map, and has two customizable data fields. 3. Compass screen with two customizable data fields. Due to the technology, it is not able to turn on its axis, so you have to move to get a new direction. 4. Large data screen with four fully customizable data fields in large font. 5. Position screen shows Lat/Long, MGRS and a dozen other ways to give position coordinates, and has two data fields and the odometer. Displays your two selections on the same screen, pushing left or right brings up another detail screen of the coordinates. 6. Road screen shows a graphic of a road, and has 4 customizable data fields. 7. Data screen has six customizable data fields and a compass ribbon at the bottom. 8. Speed screen has a speedometer, odometer and four data fields. The choices for the data fields are: Bearing, Distance, Speed, Heading, VMG, CTS, ETA, ETE, XTE, Turn, Elevation, Time, Date, EPE, Avg Speed, and Max Speed. Not all of these can be selected on all fields but the Data screen allows up to six and can be any. The menu allows Database management, Route management, Setup, Vert. Profile, Sun/Moon, Fish/Hunt, Contrast, Alarm/Messages, Card Utilities, Help and an about screen. There are 3 different backlight settings. I have used it as a vehicle GPS when Roadmate 700's were $1500, but thats kinda hard to do, but it can be done. In conclusion, I have had this GPS since 2004, and have used it frequently. I have "kid gloved" it, just because I paid over $400 for it when I got it and I like to take care of my stuff. It has performed flawlessly. Another note about the Map Send TOPO, there is SO much data stored in the unit that you can only view with the software, I replayed a continous data stream of a trip and had constant data information. I am out of space.. I LOVE THIS GPS!!!Read full review
I prefer using Magellan units to the Garmin or other brands. I've been geocaching for more than 10 years now. This one works as well as any of the others I have used.
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I do a lot of hunting and fishing in remote places or out of sight of land. Even in warm weather it only takes 1 freak storm to turn a nice day into a disaster. These Magellan GPS units are easy to use and have backtracking to bring you right back to within 9 feet of your original starting point. I have one in my hunting pack, and another in my float bag for fishing. I pretty much won't leave home on a trip without one, because they've saved my life fishing offshore.
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