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Feb 19, 2007 | 08:09 AM

Bob Ayers

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Check out this screen image from my laptop, taken from the plane on a flight from Las Vegas to Dallas on Saturday. I'm using a US GlobalSat BT-359 GPS receiver, with DeLorme Street Atlas 2007 Plus gps/map software. This is one of my favorite toys...:

Feb 26, 2007 | 01:05 AM

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wow, look at that speed..

Feb 26, 2007 | 05:28 AM

Bob Ayers

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wow, look at that speed..

Remember, this was taken from a plane.....look at the elevation.

Feb 26, 2007 | 11:40 PM

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i know. somehow, maybe when i was on my buddies bike, i had my garmin in my pocket, now the top speed is at 196 mph. i never deleted it. kind of a reminder on how fast i could die.

Feb 27, 2007 | 12:48 AM

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You have a TON of crap in your system tray. I bet it takes 10 min for your computer to boot... Go to run and type in msconfig then the start up tab then "disable all". That will make things a lot faster...

Feb 27, 2007 | 05:32 AM

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Nope, it's a T41 Thinkpad with 1.5GB of memory, and a 80GB HDD...it boots fast!!

Feb 27, 2007 | 07:45 PM

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Well remove all that crap and you will see what fast is all about.

Removeing all that could easily cut down the desktop load time by 300%. My desktop loads in about two seconds. Why? Well for one I have a good computer but partly because I have only three items on start up.

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Feb 28, 2007 | 10:04 PM

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I'm impressed that you could pick up the GPS signal while inside a plane... did you have the GPS right next to a window?

Mar 1, 2007 | 05:27 AM

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I'm impressed that you could pick up the GPS signal while inside a plane... did you have the GPS right next to a window?

Yes, the BT-359 fit's perfect betwen the pulldown shade, and the window.
This GPS receiver also receives and locks better than DeLorme GPS receivers I have owned in the past. I think this is due to the BT-359 using the SiRF Star III chip.

I did a comparison test between DeLorme's BlueLogger, and the BT-359, and
you can see the results here:

http://forum.delorme.com/viewtopic.p...460&highlight=

Last edited by Bob Ayers; Mar 1, 2007 at 05:31 AM.