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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Functional & Practical, but basic Jan 10, 2006
By CMD
"CMD"
The GARMIN 60 GPS is a nice GPS that is "base" no-frills model. I was able to plug it in, load the software, and start entering waypoints within 5 minutes. The plug and play USB port worked without a hitch.
The unit itself is very accurate -- although it took me 5 minutes to realize that I didn't have to wait and watch it synch with satellites each time I turned it on. The Unit's GUI is somewhat counter-intuitive - with 9 buttons -- some of which you hit all the time, others which are never used.
Entering coordinates does not appear to be possible (except onto the GARMIN software on your computer and transferring to the GPS unit), but this method works reasonably well.
The screen is fine, but not overly large (you should have 20/20 vision) and is black and white -- no color. This is not a complaint as the screen is perfectly read-able.
Battery life was approx 4 hours on 2 AAs. The belt clip and attachable hand-leash were nothing special, but utilitarian.
INSTALL: A
EASE OF USE: A
GUI on GPS: B-
POWER/BATTERIES: C
SCREEN: B
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Good upgrade over the eTrex Apr 17, 2006
By Captain Wafer
We had an eTrex, which my clumsiness sent to the bottom of a creek, never to be seen again. I like this unit a lot more than the eTrex:
- the screen is much sharper and easier to read
- the device's softwre is more sophisticated; you can store much more information about each waypoint
- the USB connection is really handy. Downloading waypoint information from the computer beats entering it by hand on the eTrex!
- this unit is easier to use
Don't expect much from its built-in basemap; it has dots for cities, and that's it (meaning it's basically useless, unless you have just arrived from another planet).
The biggest disadvantage to this unit is that Garmin has a proprietary interface, so it won't speak to mapping software which is expecting a standard NMEA serial-port interface. Fransom GpsGate handles the translation, though, and it's not particularly expensive.
Note: I am not affiliated with Fransom in any way.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Good solid unit Apr 16, 2006
By On the Lake
"UpNorth"
Nice unit, locks on fast and keeps the signal, it even worked inside my house. The base map that is loaded isn't much and only has some cities. The Garmin web sites indicate a "Marine Data Base" is loaded but I can't find it and we have a number of buoys near our house. It does have larger cities loaded. The Trip and Waypoint Manager software is pretty weak and I had problems getting it to load on my XP machine. Good crisp display and many options for the displays. I upgraded from an old Garmin and I would recommend this unit for a non-mapping use.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Repeatable locations to one inch, if you average for days! Jan 08, 2008
By C. Bailey
"cbailey139"
This will be an oddball review. I own four GPS60 units and use them in amateur surveying. I bought them because they do waypoint averaging and accept an external antenna and external power. I leave all four averaging their waypoints for minutes or hours or even days at a time, typically with external antennas (from Garmin or Gilson). When I'm not out surveying I usually leave one or two doing waypoint averaging using a couple of external antennas on my roof. After a few days the estimated accuracy shown on the display is usually down to 0.3 or 0.2 feet, sometimes down to 0.1. I've analyzed months of data collected this way and found that the accuracy estimate is a good estimate of one standard deviation, and most of the measurements are closer to my overall average antenna position than the estimate on the screen. Most of the ones that say "0.1 feet" are closer than one inch to the overall average. Note, though, Garmin's software insists on rounding the coordinates off to lower resolution than this - I have to use mapping software by Fugawi to get enough digits reported in the coordinates.
Any product that can report your position to an inch, based on satellites, is pretty impressive - even if you have to leave it running a week!
Not sure, but I think all Garmin's 12 channel products, which must be almost all of them, use the same GPS engine.
And another reviewer was wrong to say these can't output NMEA data. They can - you just have to menu over to Setup > Interface and select NMEA instead of the proprietary Garmin. I just checked to make sure!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Great Unit Sep 03, 2007
By Eric Burchfield
This is a great gps... very easy to use. I didn't want a complicated interface, and this one is about as simple as it gets. The page key navigates you thru the different functions, and you can mark a spot with two keystrokes. It automatically leaves a trail of where you've been, so as long as it's on you can't get lost, (unless the batteries run down, but one set lasts for five or six trips, at least). I use it on my kayak and it handles getting wet and salty pretty well- I just dunk it in fresh water after every trip.
My only regret is that I didn't buy the next one up- the one with the maps and marine charts. But this is a great unit for the money.
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