Reviews for Garmin Rino 530HCx GPS

Great for Geocaching

Strengths: Geocaching downloads, Accuracy, long battery life, strong reception, waterproof, weather radio, person to person location.

Weakness: Heavy, large, expensive

This unit has excellent accuracy and picks up Satellites quickly. The unit has an strong receiver and does well under cover. The radio range is ok and averages around 2 miles. Electronic compass is accurate. Weather radio has handy alert mode. Best part is the Geocaching feature. Garmin has a handy browser plug in that makes downloads of waypoints from Geocaching.com a snap. Many other great features including, altimeter, Point to Point projection and simple driving directions.

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nickel-and-dime

Strengths: stong signal outdoors as well as indoors. accurate data. all-in-one functionality

Weakness: garmin is nickel and diming consumers. the unit comes with no usable map and you have to shell out a little over a hundred to buy a topo map. what more, there are 3 kinds of it. so you figure it out.

Overall, it's a sturdy and dependable unit. Long lasting lithium ion battery and pretty tough waterproof unit. It has an accurate compass and altimeter although you can manually configure it out. It also has a weather channel that updates on demand on your current location as well as on nearby areas and states. On the downside, it's pretty darn expensive so be prepared to shell out. It's the corvette of handheld gps.

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GREAT PRODUCT!!!!

Strengths: GREAT SATELLITE STRENGTH,GOOD SCREEN,MORE BELLS AND WHISTLES THAN YOOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT!

Weakness: IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE A MORE DETAILED ROAD BASE MAP ON THE UNIT DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY. BUT DOWNLOAD TOPO MAPS ONTO THIS RIG FROM MAPSOURCE AND YOU HAVE MORE DETAIL THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON NEEDS

I LOVE IT! I UP GRADED FORM THE 110 MODEL BECAUSE A FRIEND BOUGHT THIS AND SHOWED ME WHAT I WAS MISSING. TO ANYONE THINKING OF BUYING RINO...DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE ENTRY LEVEL MODEL 110, BUY TH

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Best Garmin GPS Device with Included Maps South America Maps

Navigation is Average according to 9 GPS Device experts. -- "Has an external antenna which is preferable for situations where open sky is limited."-reviews.cnet.com -- "high sensitivity chipsets"-gpslodge.com -- "the navigation on the Rino 520 and Rino 530 are similar to the eTrex Vista C units, in that they come with installed base maps of the US, allows for user downloadable detailed maps, it...

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Best 2-Way Radio with GPS

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Garmin Rino 530HCX

Testseek.com has collected 4 expert reviews for Garmin Rino 530HCX and the average expert rating is 80 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Testseek.com to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions.

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