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I'm not krik3tt, but I owned/used Scepter MFCs for a few years. They the stunk up any room/shed/storage area I kept them in. Last I checked, the armed forces doesn't care much about smells.

I bought the CTEK US 25000 (25 Amp max) because it was on Odyssey's list of recommended chargers for a 62 AH...and larger... battery.

I don't remember whether whether or not wifi was turned on at the time; I'll certainly try turning off wifi next time it happens.

I was camped at one spot for about 36 hours. I had cellular service , so was able to restart** the phone several times over a period of hours. I'd quit Gaia, then turn Gaia back on, then maybe get my real position for a few seconds, but quickly Gaia would revert to placing me back in that...

They could scramble/degrade the accuracy of the signals, but there is now so much civilian commerce based on the availablilty of GPS that if the DOD did it, they'd have the people of multiple nations screaming at them. They're trapped. I recently read that they are building a a new...

Most of the time, the Gaia app on my iPhone is accurate enough for my amateur purposes. However, I have occasionally gotten a false location from an iPhone Xr running Gaia. It's unknown to me how much is iPhone/iOS, how much the Gaia app, and how much is the interface between the two. I have...

What printer(s) are you using? Can you recommend a certain printer model for printing maps? I noticed that Epson makes a 24" capable printer for about $800. Of course, there are higher/more expensive ones as well. I have an Epson "professional" photo printer at home, but it is limited to...

I have no opinion yet; I haven't used mine enough. On my recent trip, the 700i always showed where I was accurately, unlike GaiaGPS on my iPhone Xr, which kept trying to place me 35 miles away from my actual location for about 24 hours.

Having just recently acquired an inReach device, I have learned that when the SOS button is pressed, you are put in 2-way communication with the GEOS dispatch center in Texas. The SOS button, on this system, is not only for all-out, life-threatening emergencies. Having received the signal, GEOS...

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[Now Sold...thanks for looking] Hardigg Storm iM2950 case in the now unavailable Desert Tan color. No foam or dividers. This is very close in size to a Pelican 1650. Bought new in 2007, used for one trip as airline luggage, never used since. Perfect functioning latches, hinge, wheels, and...

Yeah, I [am pretty sure I] turned CN off. I tried different settings as I went. At my present level of knowledge, the 700i does many things that I didn't think I told it to do, one of which was go into some kind of 'street nav' mode. I'll load the US 100K map into it when it comes ($49 at...

i’ve been puttering through the Mojave National Preserve this weekend, bringing along an iPhone with GaiaGPS, and the Garmin700i with Garmin’s TopoActive maps, plus some topo maps previously downloaded from GPS file depot. Results so far: TopoActive is not very complete; I was driving on known...

On the Mac platform, my experience has been that within a few months of Apple moving to a new edition of the OS, GaiaGPS.com ceases to display maps using the previous iteration of the OS, and Firefox must be used to get the GaiaGPS website to display maps. 99.9% of websites work fine with my old...

My 650t was a faithful companion for about 9 years, then the touchscreen started to fart out... in the lower left corner. I seriously considered buying a 610t from GPS City ($350...Wow! Cheap!) to replace it. But then I remembered that it was also a sad companion next to the smartphone running...

Removing maps from the 700 before I returned it was easy---Google how, it's pretty trouble free. I think I used Garmin's online instructions. In my research, I came across a few warnings that when a map is sold as pre-installed on a unit, the map cannot be 're-located' to another GPS unit or...

Outdoors, in the daytime, the backlight is not needed due to the transflective screen. Many customer reviews on Amazon, etc complain about battery life. I suspect that those people are probably using the backlight---unnecessarily---while hiking in the daytime. Interesting about the old 24K...

Spent a few days with a Montana 700 unit. Everything about it is a major improvement on my old Montana 650t, EXCEPT: The brightness of the display, when used in a car interior, such as mounted at the dashboard, is very, very low. Using a Minolta Spotmeter F, I measured the brightness of the...

The Montana 700 series comes with what Garmin calls "Topo Active" maps. They are new, and seem to be a combination of the old 100,000 map with data from Open Street Maps. The 700 display, OS and these new TopoActive maps combined are, IMO, much nicer than the old 100,000 OR the old 24,000 as...

I just bought a new Montana 700 to replace my 2011 Montana 650t, whose touch screen started to fail at about the 9 year mark. Wow---for a company having 13,000 employees and $694,000 net income, the interfaces are a bit feeble. However, they're pretty much the only game in town. The last...