Suitable GPS for games??

[Jockanease]

Looking to run some games using GPS way points to identify/locate objectives.
Was wondering if anyone knew of good,simple,cheap hand held GPS to use? Was going to purchase a couple, one per team hence they need to be cheap but very easy to use.
Any ideas appreciated.

Jock.

[seansamurai1]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

Garmin fortrek 301. About 130 quid, small, light and has a wrist mount available. It can also use the said wrist mount to attach it to a weapon.
The garmin 401 is better but about 30-40 quid dearer.

[Tariq182]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

Learn to read maps ?

[North West Outpost]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

I was going to suggest map and compass less than a tenner.

[cactus]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

Could use an iPhone and get an arm strap and chuck it on your wrist if you dont fancy shelling out a few hundred extra for a GPS.

Garmin foretrex 401/301 are quite good. the 401 is only about £120-£140

[Jockanease]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

Map & compass would be easier yes, but its more for walk on games where I'm looking for quick and easy to get the games moving.
Also its a smallish woodland site, so wouldn't be much detail on even an explorer map.

[seansamurai1]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

Could use an iPhone and get an arm strap and chuck it on your wrist if you dont fancy shelling out a few hundred extra for a GPS.

Garmin foretrex 401/301 are quite good. the 401 is only about £120-£140

Thats the 301. The 401 is 170 with military discount.

[GSXR MARKY]

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iPhone is good enough to do the job.

[Hawk]

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Any Garmin or Magellan GPS is good. But my question is why? If you're using them at such a small site, where you can't use a map due to it being so small, it seems a wee bit pointless. I'd stick to visible objectives if I were you. If the site was massive then yes GPS/map reading would be a good idea to implement

[danhc]

There are programs that you can use on any smart phone with internet and GPS, these will probably suit your needs for coordination as you can designate waypoinys and pit in info on enemy numbers etc

[Jockanease]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

Thanks Guys,

The site is probably 2 mile by 0.5, the landscape would be good for some simple orienteering but I was after some simple GPS to give each team 3 objectives to hunt through the entire woodland site while avoiding the other team etc.
Found a cheap one - Bushnell Backtrack( the little round one). £50 ish.
These things are pretty robust and I wouldn't want anyone getting shot in the their precious smart phone, probably cost more than half the guns on site.

[danhc]

Re: Suitable GPS for games??

there are cases that are coming out for them

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also another bonus with using phones is that you can program in different objectives, troop movements etc, each side has their own channel which is password protected and it can be updated by any phone that is logged into the channel

[fangsnatcher]

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everytrail app on iphone will let you share a route (between objective ect). i would imagine a search on the app store would give you an inexpensive result. id check but signal shite here