Hands on trucker review of the Garmin dezl 560LMT
UPDATE: A new 7″ model is available, the Garmin dezl 760LMT.
The Garmin dezl 560LMT
Archives for April 2011
Garmin dezl 560LMT review
April 5, 2011 By 70 Comments
Garmin TOPO Alaska Enhanced
April 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Garmin has quietly rolled out TOPO Alaska Enhanced, which includes 1:24,000 and 1:63,360 scale topo maps, routable roads, urban and wilderness points of interest, and public land boundaries.
SPOT Communicator recall
April 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
UPDATE: DeLorme tells me that SPOT units have been tested and sorted, and that “any new package from DeLorme heading to retail will have a blue sticker on the bottom of the box as the indicator it is a new or tested good unit.”
I received an email overnight announcing a recall of SPOT Communicator units sold with the DeLorme PN-60w. Apparently there is an issue with messages not being sent when temperatures are below 40 degrees F. Affected units include all those with an ESN number range between 0-2000000 and 0-2019999. To make amends, the company is offering a six-month extension on service plans. Hopefully, the company discovered this issue without it impacting any emergency situations. This just goes to point out that there is no substitute for good old-fashioned wilderness preparation.
