My thoughts on the 60csx Earlier in the summer I made the plunge and purchased a hand held GPS unit. I researched for a couple of weeks. Using the internet of course and also asking friends who are or were familiar with units as civilians, law enforcement as well as a couple of former soldiers. Garmin was the brand that most of the guys came up with. Various units were discuss and after considerable time weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various models I made my decision. I purchased a Garmin 60csx. Once I ha...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 |  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/23/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (40 of 40) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Outstanding accuracy and versatility I cut my GPS teeth on an eTrex Vista (a great little handheld in its own right) for a couple of years before stepping up to the 60CSx. After five months of use, I have only positive things to say about my latest purchase. I was aware of some owners' early concerns about "wandering" and the seeming inability to enable WAAS, but figured Garmin would eventually address such firmware issues, and so decided to take the plunge. The first thing I did (the first thing any purchaser should do) was to ...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review by H. Schoch can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | H. Schoch | | Review Date: | 12/11/2006 | | User Location: | Fruita, CO | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (38 of 38) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Complete Versatility I am nothing less than completely impressed with this GPS unit. I have been using this model for over a month now and I am totally and completely satisfied with my purchase. I travel all over the US for my work by airplane and I was interested in purchasing a GPS that was versatile and portable without being too bulky and cumbersome to pack when traveling through airports. Now that I have acquired all the various parts and pieces (i.e GPS unit, software, mounting bracket, and charging cable) ...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 12/03/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (27 of 27) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Git-R-Done with the 60csx ! If all you are doing is navigating to a campsite or back to your car in fairly open country the Etrex units will do just fine at a much lower price. Plus the 60csx is bigger and heavier than an Etrex. However if you ever need a gps in steep or heavily wooded country the 60csx is amazing. Being a GIS (geographic information systems) professional the thing that gets me excited about the 60csx is that it starts to bridge the gap between recreational grade and mapping grade gps units without having...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 12/02/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (19 of 19) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Can't go wrong with this one! Let me start by saying there is no perfect GPS. I don't care whether you go Garmin, Lowrance, or Magellan, none of them will be perfect. But the 60CSx comes close enough to make me one happy user. I use it while driving as well as for geocaching and hiking in the woods. I use City Navigator North America NT version 8 for street navigation, and it works very well. The basemap that comes with the unit is junk and you won't want to use it for driving, so the City Navigator software is a mandat...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review by J. Good can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | J. Good | | Review Date: | 01/31/2007 | | User Location: | Pennsylvania, USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (16 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Excellent features, but doubtful accuracy I have been using this GPS for about a month and I have come to some conclusions you may find useful.
I bought this model to use for both adventure touring on motorcycles and as a back up GPS when I go sailing. It has worked well on my motorcycle up to a point and it has proven unreliable for navigation inside harbors.
On my motorcycle it rides on the bike mount, which does manage to hold it securely (but I still tie a lanyard from the GPS to the handle bar) and it is ...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 6.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 11/14/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (15 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great GPS unit for the money Rugged design, waterproof, compact, and with a great color screen.... what more could you ask for!
I use this unit for boating and in my car. I recommend the vent mount over the windshield mount for the car.
The unit gets fair-good reception inside my house and perfect reception outside or in the car.
The color screen is top notch. Very clear display when the back light is on. Fair display with it off.
Mapping is super easy and the unit comes packed with so many features...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review by Thomas Mattison can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | Thomas Mattison | | Review Date: | 10/14/2006 | | User Location: | Miami, FL | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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GPS60csx Awesome product. Very happy with the screen size (it's larger than my buddies Etrex Vista but the overall dimensions are quite similar.) SIRF chipset kept me locked on even in the fairly dense pines of northern Arizona during last weeks camping/geocaching trip. Most times it was locked on 9 or 10 satellites. My only complaint is one I new about going in...this is a 'two handed' unit as the navigation buttons are located way at the bottom. The larger screen size more than makes up for this i...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/18/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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HOLD IT UP! I have had this unit for about two weeks. At first it tended to drift, get a bad signal and drift. I discovered something very interesting about the use of this unit. Hold this unit at a 45-90 degree angel and the reception improves greatly. Now it gets nine foot accuracy all the time, when I average a position I can get it to improve instead of jumping around. Apparently (according to my father who was an Electronic Warfare specialist) antennae can be polorized based on the expected use, some f...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 02/14/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (13 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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They don't get much better than this I purchased this model after losing my old 60CS, and while I would have originally preferred not to spend the extra cash to replace it, I am now convinced it was worth the money. I didn't have much to complain about on the 60CS, and I certainly have nothing to complain about with this model.
Some highlights compared to the 60CS:
I love the microSD card. I certainly don't need to store all of North America in my GPS, but it was nice to be able to load my entire home st...
[Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Handheld GPS Unit review by A. Perkins can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | A. Perkins | | Review Date: | 11/28/2006 | | User Location: | Southern California | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
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