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03-23-2008, 12:15 AM
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Fusion Brain Creator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Colorado, but Canadian!
Vehicle: 2001 Honda Civic EX Coupe
Posts: 6,852
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12channels, slow locking, not sirfIII
And where do you get $100 from? A BU-353 is much less
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03-23-2008, 12:17 AM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 162
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Not sure what all that means.
12 Channels sounds like a lot.
Slow locking, I assume that it just takes a bit longer to find the satellite?
No idea what sirfIII is...
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03-23-2008, 12:21 AM
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Fusion Brain Creator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Colorado, but Canadian!
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Quote: Originally Posted by ArcaneDreams  Not sure what all that means.
12 Channels sounds like a lot.
Slow locking, I assume that it just takes a bit longer to find the satellite?
No idea what sirfIII is...
If you don't know what it is, then save your money until you do know or you will be buying multiple things.
A quick search will reveal it all. |
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03-23-2008, 04:25 AM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Covina, CA
Vehicle: 98 Lexus GS300
Posts: 296
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U can't go wrong with the BU-353, sweet GPS unit.
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03-23-2008, 05:20 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Socal
Vehicle: 2006 Evo MR
Posts: 568
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I agree. BU-353 is very nice.
At least get something with SirfIII.
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03-23-2008, 06:10 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 783
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The unit linked in the first post has -150dBm tracking sensitivity. Don't buy. For the same amount of money you can get better. Do as others in this thread have suggested: buy BU-353.
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03-23-2008, 06:27 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Top o' the world Ma!
Vehicle: 2004 Chrysler 300M Special
Posts: 1,235
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Meh, I've got an old sirf II gps puck I grabbed off ebay a few years back. It was 12 bucks or something close to that. AY-ay sir I think is written on it.
Never had any issues with lock on or response for in car use.
But then again, I'm happy with it positioning me on the road and I use iguidance which isn't exactly "fluid" when moving the image across the screen. Maybe the refresh rate doesn't matter so much with that program.........
I would listen to marvin though, he tends to know what he's talking about 
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Last edited by greatwhite : 03-23-2008 at 06:33 PM.
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03-24-2008, 05:55 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 783
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Well, the older SirfStarII isn't bad, we all lived with it happily for a long time, but if he can get the newer SiRFstarIII for the same money, why not... |
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03-24-2008, 06:05 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Bristol/Cambridge, England
Vehicle: Ford Mondeo 96
Posts: 237
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Bought a cheap ebay random thing first. It was RUBBISH. Bought a BU353, much happier.
Do it right first time, trust me.
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03-29-2008, 05:54 PM
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Newbie
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North Central PA
Vehicle: 1999 Toyota Tacoma
Posts: 39
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What software do you use with this BU-353?
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03-29-2008, 05:57 PM
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Fusion Brain Creator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Colorado, but Canadian!
Vehicle: 2001 Honda Civic EX Coupe
Posts: 6,852
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Quote: Originally Posted by rizaydog What software do you use with this BU-353?
For drivers, they supply you with them.
For actual nav software, you can use any that accept a NMEA data stream |
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