New Bushnell Onix400

[Green Bay Paddlers]

Sorry if this was posted already, but I searched under Onix and no topics came up.

Backpacker Magazine has a full page ad for the new Onix400 in this month’s issue. I’m doing some snooping, and it looks like it will be released later this summer.

Topo maps and Satellite imagery are the backdrops and it also includes XM radio. The XM radio will download updated weather radar maps to your GPS receiver! I coach high school track and field. This would be a great tool for a coach to have in iffy weather. We also paddle the Boundary Waters every year and this too would help protect ourselves as well.

Good stuff.

[RSplash40]

If you really want to go nutz, several airplane receivers do that too, my old boss takes his out the plane and mounts it in his durango.

[Green Bay Paddlers]

Tell me about it. I’ve been eyeing up those aviation systems for awhile. The reason I’m so excited about this Onix400 is that it seems to be “reasonably” priced!

[hogrod]

When I saw this about six months ago I was also very excited( I also posted a topic on the forum about it). bushnell already has been selling the Onix 200 model and after reading some reviews I hope this is much better.

Besides bushnell making the onix GPS recievers, delorme now makes the earthmate PN-20 that can do aerial photo maps. There are Major flaws in all of these models so far, the worst being dismally slow map draw speeds. another issue I have is the aerial photo maps can be off by hundreds of feet in some areas.

I like it but I think I’ll wait until there are more options for models like this, a little competition from Garmin or Magellan may cause them to be cheaper or have even more features.

[hogrod]

@Green Bay Paddlers wrote:

Sorry if this was posted already, but I searched under Onix and no topics came up.

Now if you would have searched Bushnell, you may have found my old post.
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looking at my old post I see this was originally suppose to be out in February, maybe they have worked out some of the bugs.
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4771&highlight=bushnell

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