Discount: Garmin Rino 130 Handheld GPS Navigator and 2-Way Radio

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Garmin Rino 130 Handheld GPS Navigator and 2-Way Radio

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02nd of December 2008





The Rino 130 is the most feature rich unit in the Rino family, with a fitted electronic compass, barometric sensor, weather receiver for seven NOAA weather channels, and 24 MBs of interior memory. This handheld radio has a fitted electronic compass to give a heading while the user is standing still, and a barometric altimeter to offer very correct elevation and pressure info, which will help users in recognizing weather data.The Rino 130 gives two way radio communication with a transmission range of up to two miles using FRS channels and up to five miles with GMRS. The integration of two way radio and GPS enables users to transmit their position with a simple button press, allowing others to navigate to their position. The Rino 130 also has a polling feature, which lets a user to manually ask GPS place info from other Rino units.


The the most feature rich device in the Rino family, Garmin's Rino 130 mix 2 way FRS/GMRS radio and GPS receiver comes completely loaded with an electronic compass, a barometric sensor, a weather receiver for seven NOAA weather channels, and 24 MB of interior memory for downloading and storing MapSource detail including data from merchandise like U.S. Topo 24K, U.S. Topo, Recreational Lakes, BlueChart, and MetroGuide MapSource merchandise sold separately.

The Rino 130 is equipped with a marine point database and a basemap of North and South America. The database will include nautical navaids for North and South America. The Americas Highway basemap will include the United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America, and covers an area from W180 to W30 Longitude and S60 to N75 Latitude. Also included is a high level global map with political boundaries and big cities. Among many other included elements are oceans, rivers, and lakes greater than 30 square miles, principal cities and many smaller cities and towns, big interstates and principal highways, and political boundaries state and international borders.

Integration has its advantages: the Rino 130 sends and receives GPS places using FRS channels and shows them on the map. The GPS device is a 12 channel, WAAS enabled GPS receiver. WAAS, which stands for large Area Augmentation System WAAS, is the global positioning system of choice for mariners. The handheld's fitted electronic compass give a heading while you are standing still, and its barometric altimeter gives correct elevation and pressure readings to assist you recognize and examine weather conditions.

The Rino 130 also gives two way radio communication with a transmission range of up to two miles using FRS channels and up to five miles with GMRS be aware that use of GMRS requires an FCC license. The integration of two way radio and GPS allows you to transmit your position with a simple button press, so others can navigate to your position. The Rino 130 also has a polling feature so you may be able to manually ask GPS place info from other Rino units.

You get 14 FRS channels, eight GMRS channels, and eight GMRS repeater channels, also as 38 sub audible squelch codes per transmission channel for semi private radio communications.

The unit's ergonomic design fundings single handed operation, with its Call, Page mode, and Press To Talk PTT buttons mounted on the side, Power/Backlighting button on top, Volume and Zoom buttons on front, and a Thumb Stick located in the center. The thumb stick lets channel selection and volume modification in FRS/GMRS mode, also as fast map panning, enter, and selection functions in GPS mode.

Other features are a backlit display 160 x 160 pixels, external voice activation VOX, waterproof construction to IPX 7 standards immersible in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes, storage for up to 500 waypoints with graphic identification and 20 reversible routes, 10,000 trackpoints and up to 20 saved tracks to retrace your path or a companion's path via the location reporting feature, trip computer with speed tracking, sunrise/sunset read out, trip time, and trip distance, and many grid formats as well as MGRS and Loran TD. The Rino 130 sends and receives short text notes for calm communication.

The Rino 130 has a battery life of 14 hours typical use on three AA alkaline batteries not included.

What's in the Box
Rino 130 receiver, a PC interface cable, a wrist strap, a belt clip, a user's manual, and a quick reference guide.




Garmin Rino 130