Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Navigator
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Customer Review: Garmin GPSMap 60CSx Handheld GPS Navigator
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent product, although somewhat pricey. I work for a startup requiring extensive travel to out of the way locations worldwide. Very easy to operate.
We have placed locations around the world on our corporate servers, so that all will access to client locations. This also will work in countries where maps are not available. The first person in the country maps out locations and routes and uploads to the server. Those that follow have an easy time downloading and making their way to the client.
Battery life is average, but as advertised.
I travel in mountainous central Washington and have always gotten a signal, even in heavy snow and rainy conditions.
This is great addition to my travel kit and I would recommend to anyone that is serious about having this capability in a small, efficient form factor.
Unit arrived in two days with standard shipping from Amazon direct.
One thing that would make this unit perfect would be a complete package including the Garmin travel kit in a bundled configuration with the 60 CSX.
Fortunately, one of my colleagues provided the information on the Garmin Automotive Navigation Kit with City Select North America from Vann's. The Automotive Navigation kit is a must have. Vann's pricing included the car power adaptor and sandbag holder for your dashboard at a much lower price than purchasing separately.
****If you drive a car in California, you cannot mount the GPS to your window. This will result in unwarranted attention from the Highway Patrol. It is a ticketable offense.You must leave it on the car seat or use the sandbag to place on the dashboard.******
Vann's provided a lot of information including updates on status and shipment tracking.
My satisfaction with this product is very high.
I also purchased a Pelican 1030 Micro Case to protect the GPS when not in use.
Customer Review: Impressive
Summary: 5 Stars
When I buy this unit, it will be my 4th hand-held GPS. My current is an eTrex Vista, which does everything I could ever want except work when I really need it! The Vista looses signal in not-so-steep canyons, under moderately dense trees, and when storm clouds get too thick.
I took the CSx for a spin at REI. It wouldn't lock inside their big metal wearhouse building, of course, so I took it outside. It worked fine and did NOT wander when I was standing still. If I took one big stride (~5 feet) it noticed, but added some noise into the odometer too. (said I went 9 feet instead of 5. I can live with that)
Next I held it right up against the 30 foot tall concrete wall of the store, expecting it to lose 1/2 the satelites. Nope. Signal strength dropped but it stayed locked.
Finally, I took it back inside the store, which again has a solid sheet metal roof and only occasional skylights. It struggled there, but kept enough satelites locked (throught the skylights?) to tell me where I was. That's VERY impressive.
In a car, I have to throw the vista on the dashboard so it can see through the windshield. I expect the CSx will work fine in the passenger or back seat. I also expect I can leave the CSx in my pocket or daypack while hiking and it will track. (The vista only works if I rig it to the shoulder strap of my backpack)
The e-compass was just a toy. I always carry a paper map and old-school compass anyway, just in case the batteries die or I drop the thing and break it. (learned that one the hard way, when my first GPS's batteries froze on the way down shasta)
Can't tell if I'll use the barometer and altimeter or not, but I'll give it a shot. At least you can shut it off to save batteries.
Overall, I'm very impressed. I'll keep this unit for a long time, I think.
Customer Review: Excellent Product
Summary: 5 Stars
I originally bought a 60CS in 2004, so the only thing holding me back from the 60CSX was convincing the financial director that a second unit was justified.
The main changes are the use of a removable SD card and better reception. Better reception is fantastic.
This is a general purpose GPS so it can be used on the road and on the trail. It hangs on your side like a cellphone and is often mistaken for one. On the road I use a windsheild suction mount and a dual powercable/serial connection. There are no voice prompts, however the beep notification and text and graphic are sufficient for me. Some navigators may not like taking their eyes off the road to check the unit however if located properly this is not an issue. On the trail use with TOPO maps is also very good.
The unit is designed around Geocaching and I have done this a couple of times and was easily able to find the cache.
As far as "City Navigator North America 2008", the complete map set takes about 1.7 GB of a 2 GB Micro SD card. 2GB is the maximum size that you can use. Private data can also be stored on the SD card.
Pre "City Navigator North America 2008", Garmin allowed two units to register with each map purchase, however retrictions imposed by NAVTEQ have forced Garmin to only allow one unit per licence.
Overall, an excellent product that covers a lot of applications. Satellite aquisition is extremely fast and I am able to get coverage in my house.
If you are going to only use the GPS in your car and are looking for voice prompts and fancy features, then you are probably better off with a NUVI, however if you want general GPS in the Car, on your plane, on the handlebars of your Motor Cycle or Bicycle or strapped to your belt, then this is the unit.
I love my 60CS and 60CSX.
Customer Review: Just about the best Garmin GPS for hikers
Summary: 5 Stars
I have quite a few Garmin GPS units and this one is my favorite ( it was so much my favorite that I purchased a second one a couple of days ago )
1) It has the SiRF GPS chip and it locks onto a GPS fix much faster than the now obsolete 12 channel units ( Don't waste your time buying a 12 channel unit; wait until a SiRF upgrade comes out ). When you first receive the unit, of course the first thing you want to do is to experiment with it. This unit is so sensitive that it locks in quite quickly indoors. (BTW, the Pharos GPS unit that comes with Microsoft Streets & Routes 2007 is equally sensitive )
2) This unit has good disability accomodation ( there is no accessibility menu, which there should be, of course ) but if you are color blink, have poor eyesight or have epilepsy you can set up the unit to be reasonably usable. The only problem epileptics will have is with the blinking GPS satellite icons on the GPS page as the unit is in the lock-in process. It would be nice if Garmin would do something about this. Otherwise, you can just page to the next page and wait for the position fix to be achieved. ( One trick, since most of the other pages are very configurable, include the position accuracy as one of the fields. Rather than getting clobbered by the blinking GPS satellite icons, you can just watch the position accuracy improve to a reasonable value such as 20' and then do what you want to do
I have the Garmin 100K topographic maps on my unit. One extremely annoying "feature" is that the waypoint labels, which are displayed on the map, block the actual contour lines. So, what I want to see, is blocked by the label. It would be nice if there was an option that they would only be displayed a short time.
Customer Review: unbeatable - with reservations
Summary: 5 Stars
I've used the 60CSx for three months and carry it with me on all my hikes - mostly bushwhacks in deep, old-growth pacific northwest forests - often in deep canyons - and have never lost signal - (and I'm talking 200 foot trees and thousand foot deep, steep-walled canyons, too.) Accuracy suffers in such challenging terrain but seldom gets worse than +/- 100' and is usually in the 20' range. As previous reviewers have noted, the unit's standard base map is worthless so you will have to purchase another $100 worth of software to correct that problem. Unfortunately, and again as other reviewers have noted, there is a lot to be desired with the extra Garmin software but I've found it to be pretty good for my purposes on the trails and most city data is pretty accurate but there are some glaring mistakes and ommisions here and there.
The unit has a few idiosyncrasies such as adding up distance on the odometer while sitting still for long periods in poor reception areas but, oddly, not recording all distance covered in poor signal areas when you are moving. Strange - but a minor annoyance. Another annoyance is that in an airplane, the unit will only give pressure altitude, not GPS altitude on the readout. You can get GPS altitude by going into the setup screen, but it won't stay on the readout. Again, a minor annoyance.
I download all my hikes into NG TOPO! and there is no comparison with old tracks I've saved from my older 60C Garmin. In tough terrain, the older unit would lose signal constantly and often record data points 1,000 feet off when it did manage to get a signal.
If you are a hiker, hunter, explorer, mushroom gatherer, geocacher or just want a highly accurate GPS, this is the unit!