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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by Philipp » 21 October 10 8:28 am

rogerw3 wrote:If they do not work well inside a metal container will they work inside a car? Perhaps you can hook it to the radio aerial for better transmission.
Since it's HF it works - just like a mobile works in a car. It's quite amazing where you get reception sometimes: I remember one phone-call me being in a full scale sub (German type 205). My brother is an engineering for HF techniques and he said if you got a "leak" in your cage it's kind of hard to keep HF out.

Just received shipping confirmation so that stuff is on the way to Elwood *freu* :mrgreen:

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by Map Monkey » 21 October 10 10:30 am

umm, isn't ANT operating in the UHF band? :wink:

mm

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Post by Philipp » 21 October 10 12:34 pm

Map Monkey wrote:umm, isn't ANT operating in the UHF band? :wink:

mm
jep - right my mistake.

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by riblit » 21 October 10 1:06 pm

ANT uses the 2.4Ghz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band.

For the technically inclined, this pdf explains it.

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Re: Garmin Chirp

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by riblit » 21 October 10 10:23 pm

shrek4 wrote:http://www.gpscity.com/garmin-chirp.html

Not a bad price. :-k
Did you check the shipping price to here?
USPS $US25.00
Economy $US50.00
Priority $US75.00

Add another $4.99 USD for Insurance.
For something that weighs 2.208 ozs packed.

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by shrek4 » 21 October 10 10:27 pm

I did. Still if buying 3+ it's stll cheaper than http://www.rei.com/search?query=chirp which is $32 (not sure if that includes insurance).

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by Skippy » 22 October 10 7:15 am

It took about 3 days to get these published in Texas
http://coord.info/GC2GX9Z
http://coord.info/GC2GX81
http://coord.info/GC2GX8P

Found them about 3 hours after coming online
Took awhile finding a working Wifi hotspot to download the new firmware.
at one of the location I couldn't get the Oregon 300 to receive the chip signal, I'm now glad I brought the new Garmin 62S before leaving home :)

BTW all 3 FTF's :P :P :P
plus the bonus FTF

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by MtnLioness » 23 October 10 10:24 pm

Uh....Skippy, you haven't logged two of them.
Congrats though, what a wowzer of a cache series to find!


My only problem is I only have an Oregon 200, just below the lowest required to use this chirp.....But I am still sooo temped to get one. But how would I use it?

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by Zytheran » 24 October 10 3:21 pm

MtnLioness wrote:Uh....Skippy, you haven't logged two of them.
Congrats though, what a wowzer of a cache series to find!


My only problem is I only have an Oregon 200, just below the lowest required to use this chirp.....But I am still sooo temped to get one. But how would I use it?
You can't ...and that's the problem. :( When you turn them on for the first time they need to pair with a suitable Garmin GPS, which is also needed to download the waypoint coord and short message to them. They haven't been reverse engineered yet but I imagine it will be soon and then other options might turn up, like what happened with Whereigo.
The big issue will be whether they take off enough to survive the market.
(They should have had a much bigger memory for the message and a PC based way of programming them)

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by riblit » 24 October 10 4:47 pm

As they are locked to a GPS, if it breaks or you lose it. Gather up all your chirp thinggys and drop in nearest rubbish container.

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Post by caughtatwork » 24 October 10 4:57 pm

riblit wrote:As they are locked to a GPS, if it breaks or you lose it. Gather up all your chirp thinggys and drop in nearest rubbish container.
Not quite. They can be cleared by another GPS as long as you have the original GPS Serial Number.

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by MtnLioness » 24 October 10 11:25 pm

Wow, what a colossal waste of time and effort then....Poo!
I really wanted one! #-o :( :(

Why won't they make it work for the 200 then, they work for all the others!!
What, is it just too crap or something?!
No fair!

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by gmj3191 » 24 October 10 11:32 pm

MtnLioness wrote:Wow, what a colossal waste of time and effort then....Poo!
I really wanted one! #-o :( :(

Why won't they make it work for the 200 then, they work for all the others!!
What, is it just too crap or something?!
No fair!
The cheaper GPSs probably don't contain the necessary radio components to utilise this sort of thing.

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Re: Garmin Chirp

Post by tatty » 25 October 10 3:10 am

Yes the 200 is the only oregon without the wireless which is why they are not chirp compatible.

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