IC 400pro Nuvi 660

G'day Trendsetters.

After much thought and deliberation i have come a conclusion and purchased myself the above two items. This post is to thank the people that made my decision much easier and hopefully one day when the search function works better other newbie's may get some advice. If looking on the net at GPS try Members Doug and Dustys home page a lot of good info for the beginner not just on GPS.
The GPS decision on brand, for me was easy Garmin but what model, for city driving and a future trip around the block i needed a navigator and i also needed the device for the bush tracks. This lead me to the nuvi range with the nuvis own software and program called tracks 4 Australia i believe this is all i will require. If you are in Melbourne i can highly recommend JA-GPS great advice and they are not 16 year olds working for drink money.
The best advice i can give is don't just research the thing get out and play with a few, i was looking at the 310 but when i physically looked at them the 660 is so much easier to use (physically bigger)

With the IC 400 it was a last minute decision originally GME 4400 was my choice but after looking at the units the IC 400 seems to be a better build unit, and you also get 88 programmable stations. Not too shaw on this or what it does exactly, time too read the manual.
The aerial for me was also not an easy decision to make but as a lot of people on here said get it up high.
After a trip to see Ms Lucy it became a lot clearer on the aerial decision making also if you want a good coffee maker see Ms Lucy great cuppa, not too shaw about the bonnet mods just yet, but that numatic contraption on the trailer controlling the tent very nice.
After looking at the options i decided on a heavy duty spring base and an elevated feed antenna with a flexi 1/4 wave whip with an additional aerial for a higher gain. The conclusion that i came too with aerials is no one aerial will do every thing you want, so if you have a heavy duty spring with a connector that you can change your whips on you have the best of both worlds depending on your conditions. Well that my little blurb on this topic.

Thank you all again, this forum is an excellent source of info.


Regards

Stephen Farrell