Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Google Groups set up

Our Google Groups page here

On the Google groups you can find training documents

You can find the Etrex quick reference gps guide, a nice document from Garmin describing how to use gps with paper maps and a general intro to gps.

All docs are in pdf format.

Monday, November 17, 2008

GPS training after meeting

November meeting at 7 pm
GPS training after the meeting

Wear warm clothing for a stroll
Training will last about an 1 hour

Bring a personal gps if you have one

Bring your personal prussik, we will practice knots during the meeting

We will go over the basics of using a gps unit and some of the following:
1) coordinate systems
2)waypoints and routes
3)setting up tracks
4)using with aprs
5)downloading/uploading data onto the computer

Monday, November 10, 2008

Calendar for 08/09

Beta calendar for training on the right.