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Other Stuff => Your other hobbies => Topic started by: EL34 on August 14, 2009, 12:17:33 pm

Title: More CNC fun
Post by: EL34 on August 14, 2009, 12:17:33 pm

I am going out to Utah in a couple weeks and needed to have my handheld GPS in the rental car, as well as on the trails.

I could not find a suction cup GPS holder that I liked and so I made one.
I came out pretty nice thanks to Cambam

Way more details and larger pics on this page.
http://www.el34world.com/Misc/Cnc/CNC16.htm

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(http://www.el34world.com/Misc/Cnc/images/IMG_1583_small.jpg)

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Title: Re: More CNC fun
Post by: billcreller on August 15, 2009, 07:22:27 pm

That looks great Doug. The antenna should work good there too..  I've installed a lot of GPS rigs in airplanes, the panel-mounted moving-map type (big bucks) and the antenna permanently mounted on the top of the cabin.
  You seem to have fun with your CNC set up :smiley:

Title: Re: More CNC fun
Post by: supro66 on August 17, 2009, 04:05:40 pm

I see the GPS

Why the compass

I had them both on my boat

GPS= CLOCK=KNOTS PER HOUR=DIRECTION

Man overboard button so you can come back into the chum slik

Title: Re: More CNC fun
Post by: EL34 on August 17, 2009, 04:43:10 pm

Bill,
I have a plug in external antennea that has a 8 foot cord.
It has a magnet on it that sticks to the car roof.
It gets awesome reception.
So much so that you can have the GPS in a bag inside the car and it still works.

The compass is in my truck, in my driveway, not the rental car in Utah.
The GPS has a compass in it if you need one.

Title: Re: More CNC fun
Post by: billcreller on August 17, 2009, 11:15:02 pm

 That sounds great.  I've also installed just the antenna on the cabin top, with a jack for the portable hand-held GPS units.  Folks with the panel mounted units also like a hand-held portable as a back up for instrument flight conditions.

Title: Re: More CNC fun
Post by: EL34 on August 18, 2009, 05:50:37 am

My hand held one has kind of a tiny screen, Not really a good automobile GPS.

We are also bringing Ginny's Magellan, which is a regular automobile GPS unit.

The cool thing I use mine for is that is hooks to my Notebook computer via a USB cable and then sync's up with Ozi Explorer (My mapping software) to do regular moving map type stuff.

All the maps I use in Ozi scroll across the screen similar to how an auto GPS does, but the maps also show all the tracks and waypoints and custom data I have loaded in Ozi Explorer.
I can set a proximity alarm to go off when we get near something that you want to stop and look at.

I use topo maps and satellite maps from terra server in Ozi.
Wish that Google Earth was not $400 for the version that lets you use a GPS with it.