I too have an Etrex Vista. They are now selling an external antenna mount
that mounts to the back where the power connects or they have a dual
power/external antenna mount cord - saw them at REI in Minneapolis. But,
that said, mine sits on the Westy dash in Garmin's mount and I don't need
the external antenna. My eyesight is pretty good which is a must because
that screen is pretty small. 

Jonathan R. Cooper
Brzytwa, Quick & McCrystal
1660 West 2d Street, Suite 900
Cleveland, OH 44113
216-664-6900 (voice)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Todd Last
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:40 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: GPS Questions

I had an eTrek vista and it is a great GPS - but it does not have the option
for an external antenna mount which you may want to have particularly if you
use the GPS in the car. So, I recently upgraded to a Garmin GPS76S. Pretty
much the same as the vista but with a marginally larger display and external
antenna jack.

I've use the Roads and recreation software with good results and also the
shareware program EASYGPS.

Todd
'88 Westy

Dan Brideau wrote:

>I have a Garmin eTrex Vista.
>
>It is about the size of a large cell phone.
>
>It came with maps of everywhere I've been with it so far (New England 
>and Montreal Canada).
>
>It has no "turn left at the next light" sort of stuff, but it does have 
>an arrow that will point to your next "way point".
>
>It does have a serial connection, witch I have used to make maps of 
>where I've been using 3rd party shareware:
>
>http://www.myghia.com/gps/
>
>I have an optional handle bar mount, the maps above are of my local 
>town forest bike trails.
>
>It's pretty cool, but not fool proof.  If you have a AAA map, and one 
>of these, you would have no excuse for getting lost.
>
>Dan Brideau
>
>
>Original Message -----------------------
>I would like to get a GPS for extensive car travel and perhaps some 
>short hikes. I don't have a laptop, would like to avoid getting one.
>
>
>