GPS Training Podcast – number 71
Can you navigate with just a GPS watch? We discuss this and lots more in this month's GPS Training Podcast * When are watches best suited - our personal experiences - EPIX or FENIX 7?* Transferring your planned activity to your GPS using the Connect app to a compatible GPS unit and then following ‘a course’* And then finally we have - Andy’s top tips 1. When are watches best suited compared to a GPS unit - our personal experiences.This discussion has come about after my experiences last week. For the latest ‘walk and talk’ video I was creating with the Garmin Epix (Gen2) We planned a route on our free OS route planning software and headed off into the Cheviot Hills. I have walked many long distance/ waymarked trails with just a watch BUT Could I navigate a pre-planned route that was put together by linking undefined footpaths together? Struggled, needed to use an OS mapOR A OS map on a GPS unit IT ALSO through another question into the equation 1:25k maps – You need these to show you the open access in England and Wales – I could picture these in my mind. * Video comparing Fenix v Epix* Walk and talk with Garmin Fenix 7* Walk and talk with Garmin Epix (Gen 2) To find out more and watch the ‘walk and talk’ I refer to please go to our website – gpstraining.co.uk > Homepage and halfway down the homepage you will see a link to ‘walk and talk' – let me take you on a walk with a GPS unit 2. Transferring your planned activity to your GPS using the Connect app to a compatible GPS unit and then following ‘a course’ What are we looking at here? Traditionally we have planned a route in Garmin BaseCamp (or another route planning software) and transferred this to a unit using a USB cable.We then follow either the route or track But with a number of the ‘new generation units’ we can do this wirelessly using the Garmin Connect App, this converts it to a ‘course’ though. * Navigational experiences – Route, track and course* Compatible GPS Units - GPSMAP 66 series, 86 series and Montana 700 series* Use our free route planning software - so easy to useOver the coming months we are going to bring this bringing into our physical GPS Training courses we deliver around the country.Garmin GPS Training Courses (two day, nationwide) -South DownsNew ForestNorthamptonshireGloucestershirePeak DistrictLake DistrictNorthumberlandScottish Borders To find out more about our GPS courses please go to our website – GPSTraining.co.uk > GPS Training Courses (top Menu bar) > Garmin Classroom based courses 3. The next thing on this month’s GPS Training Podcast is Andy’s top tipsMontana 700 – Raining there is a setting for Rain hidden away – Home screen - Setup – Accessibility – Touch Sensitivity change from normal to RainRain: ...