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<blockquote data-quote="Red Sparky" data-source="post: 1004149" data-attributes="member: 37223"><p>WildRose--I have the Garmin Rino and I bought Topo 2008. That is one of the radio and gps combo units. The radio is good for hunting parties but drains the batteries. Most times I have the unit off but with my daughters starting to hunt here a a few pluses for the radios. I can set them up to send locations to any other Rino user. So I know where my daughters are IF, yes that is a big if, the radios can reach each other. In the mountains don't expect the radios to reach as far as manufactures state. I can poll their location and it will tell me where they are. I can also talk to them and set up places to meet. The other thing I tell the wife if something happens and a search party has to be sent out for us we will be on channel 9, frequency 11. Yep 911 so any rescuer that has a Rino can locate my position. We usually use a different channel and frequency but if something bad happens we will change to 911. If I had it to do over again I would look at the Spot, I think they call it. You can send text messages and locations via satellite rather than radio. My wife could log in on the computer at home and know where I was and how things were going.</p><p></p><p>With Topo 2008 I can load topo maps in but chips might be the way to go. I hunt public land without any private land around but if I was hunting close to private land it would be nice to have the chips to make sure not to get a trespass ticket.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Red Sparky, post: 1004149, member: 37223"] WildRose--I have the Garmin Rino and I bought Topo 2008. That is one of the radio and gps combo units. The radio is good for hunting parties but drains the batteries. Most times I have the unit off but with my daughters starting to hunt here a a few pluses for the radios. I can set them up to send locations to any other Rino user. So I know where my daughters are IF, yes that is a big if, the radios can reach each other. In the mountains don't expect the radios to reach as far as manufactures state. I can poll their location and it will tell me where they are. I can also talk to them and set up places to meet. The other thing I tell the wife if something happens and a search party has to be sent out for us we will be on channel 9, frequency 11. Yep 911 so any rescuer that has a Rino can locate my position. We usually use a different channel and frequency but if something bad happens we will change to 911. If I had it to do over again I would look at the Spot, I think they call it. You can send text messages and locations via satellite rather than radio. My wife could log in on the computer at home and know where I was and how things were going. With Topo 2008 I can load topo maps in but chips might be the way to go. I hunt public land without any private land around but if I was hunting close to private land it would be nice to have the chips to make sure not to get a trespass ticket. [/QUOTE]
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