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I want to know what is the best and the easyest to use so please help me on this thanks

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What brand / model is it?

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look inside the box, there should be a bound collection of pages numerically indexed, read thouroughly starting at page one untill complete.

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Lowrance sent back cover was broke

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ive had a bunch of different ones, i just got a Delorme Earthmate and its the best one ive had


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I just want one easy to use and is cheap to put lake maps on

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Lowrance h2o


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Garmin 60csx. Pretty easy to use and pretty descent maps

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I use both Lowrance (personal) and Garmin handhelds (work). I originally bought the lowrance so that I can use if I'm not fishing out of my boat (which has lowrance head units in it) and save the wayponits to the sd card which can be transfered to the units in my boat. I find the H2O is more userfrienly IMO because you can make a route on the handheld where as with Gamin 60CSX you have to make a route on the computer then transfer it to the gps. The Gamin is pretty neat in that you can save the trail you made and when returning to the computer you can upload your trail to google earth and see where you went in satelite imagery. I find the H2O takes a little longer to lock in on the satelites where as the Garmin is realitively quick. As far as mapping I prefer mapcreate for running the marsh and coastal areas which is only supported by Lowrance I think? Garmin uses mapsource which aint bad but its not as good mapcreate. If your putting just lake maps on it I think but will support the major mapping software like hotmaps and navionics but double check me on that.

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Lowrance h2o or hunt easiest. Don't buy bushnell


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I've heard the delorme is badazz, but never used one. I have an H2O, works great for me. I don't do a whole lot on the computer with it. Just use it to mark trails through the stump fields...


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I use a garmin oregon. Touch screen, pretty easy to use. Still works covered in water and fish slime. Eats batteries though.


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I was wondering about GPS as well. I am gonna look hard at the lowrance h20 all i have now is a compass so anything will be an improvement lol.

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They don't have the Lowrance h2o they don't make it any more

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Found a few on ebay refurbished

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I have a Garmin Oregon 200 and I like it. Pretty much all GPS's are the same as far as functioning goes. Once you learn to use one, you learned them all.

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Had a Magellan Explorer, something hit it and broke the screen, it was a very simple gps, nothing fancy, just what you need pretty much. Just got a Garmin Etrex for xmas, I'll let you know how it works.

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Garmin 78


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Ended up going with a DeLORME PN-60 and they are on sale right now at best buy online.

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DeLorme best software around!


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it still hasnt came in i think ups lost it

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ups lost it ?
maybe they should have turned it on lol

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Yeah i tracked it and it should have been here thursday and it didnt show up then the tracking changed and said it was out for delivery friday. It never showed up friday either so i tracked it again and it said it was in Hogkings Il. lol now they saying its back in Houston so maybe it will get here sometime this week. :? :?

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