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Old 10-28-2005, 11:37 AM
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Default Bigger screen to display GPS info?

Anybody out there know of an accessory readout screen that can be driven by a handheld GPS??

I am thinking about something that will mount in the same width hole as a com or xpndr etc--------6 1/4, I think, should be about same tall, and most of all it needs to be reasonably priced, not like the $8k one that King makes.

Doesnt need a lot of "bells and whistles", just needs to show what the GPS is telling it.

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Old 10-28-2005, 12:02 PM
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Default check out anywhere map

try: www.controlvision.com
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Old 10-28-2005, 01:12 PM
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Default Larger GPS display for Experimentals.

Perhaps an 8" diagonal Tablet PC with daylight readable display, like the Motion Computing 800 series or Fujitsu equivalent, with a Garmin 10 glareshield GPS module, running Anywhere Map or one of the many moving map applications ???
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Old 10-28-2005, 04:12 PM
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Build 9a, and Billy Bob, thanks for the ideas, you both gave me some good info, which I have looked into.
However I must not have made myself clear in my original post. Sorry about that, I will try to be more clear.
I am looking to use my existing garmin 195 to drive a larger screen. I have a fine GPS that does all I need, I just cant read the screen.
Hopefully something in the under $500 range if such a thing exists.

Thanks again,
Mike Starkey
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Old 10-28-2005, 10:06 PM
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Default Maybe not possible

I think we answered the way we did was that adding a larger display "directly" to a Garmin GPSMAP Unit may not be possible and/or cost effective as it is a proprietary design....

If you stay with an external device interfaced to the GPS 195, all you get is the Nema datastream and probably no internal map information??
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