Like the highly expensive in-dash type that needs to be certified.Looks like Magellan was bought out by the Thales group. Magellans do not have any external antenna capability. It's a possibility.From my experience, Magellan equipment sort of sucks. Well, the Vista might be the cheapest with an integrated electronic compass.I don't know about them being Garmin shills. Your unit can still function as a direction finding instrument instead of a paperweight.(Conspiracy mode off Hey what do you know, a black helicopter just flew over my house!Go here for great in-depth GPS info and reviews: guys are serious GPS geeks! That might be good for laying on dash in car and not needing antenna.(Conspiracy mode on Electronic compass is great for when the govt./aliens/killer grackle army turns off the GPS system. Altimeter, electronic compass, etc.Garmin eTrex Vista is $200 range at Wal-Mart, has electronic compass, barometric altimeter, etc. The new Garmin GPSmap 76S has all the toys built in for $400 or so. Garmin GPS 76 is like $200 or so and can be had at Wal-Mart. The Garmin 76 series all have external antenna ports. It's not necessary to use one, just makes for faster lock ons. Most good handheld GPS units can accept an external antenna. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif It can use WAAS satellites to augment the main GPS signal boosting the accuracy by quite a bit.They make a special serial to USB adapter that will supply power to it also.And finally, it's BLACK!Let me know what you think about that. If I had to pick a puck style unit, I would get the Garmin GPS16 WAAS: is the most modern of its kind.
Don't know much about them though.If you must have a "puck" style antenna, check out this link: guys have serious equipment. They have the new version of Street Atlas coming out then (SA 2003).Newegg has cheap "hockey puck" serial port GPS units made by Leadtek. Hold off till after Aug 15th on the Delorme software.
Delorme Street Atlas will work fine with any NMEA device. Most handheld GPS units will transmit standard NMEA output.
You can pick up Garmin handheld GPS units for $99 that will work standalone AND hooked to laptops. It's output can only be read by Delorme programs (It's some Rockwell crap).
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