Garmin Rino 120 GPS with 2-Way Radio

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Garmin Rino 120 GPS with 2-Way Radio

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Product Description

Color: Hunter Greenenough memory to download detailed mapping for driving, hiking, hunting, fishing, or just about something else you can dream up.
The Rino 120 is waterproof and can beam your exact location to one other Rino user within a two-mile range (on the FRS spectrum) applying the position reporting feature. The radio functionality of the Rino 120 supplies two-way communications for up to two miles (using FRS channels), and you can speak to friends or loved ones who own standard FRS radios. There's also a voice scrambler and a vibration mode for silent calls.

Define contacts and navigate to them.
The Map Page draws a straight line to your destination. The dotted lines indicate the motion of your contacts.
From the Rino's Radio Page, you can choose a channel and squelch code so you can talk with your buddies with much less opportunity of interference from other radio users.The Rino 120 has a built-in basemap consisting of American road and highway detail, along with eight MB of internal memory for downloading additional road, street, and points-of-interest information from MapSource MetroGuide, Fishing Hot Spots, Topo, or BlueChart CD-ROMs. A Pc-interface cable also comes with the Rino 120.
Garmin Rino 120 GPS / FRS / GMRS has a voice scrambler and vibration mode for best-secret calls! The Rino 120 state-of-the-art GPS navigation and two-way communications combined, with adequate memory to download detailed mapping for driving, hiking, hunting, fishing... or just about anything else you can dream up. It is waterproof, can send communications up to 2 miles making use of FRS channels, 5 miles applying GMRS channels, and can "beam" your precise location to one more Rino user utilizing "position reporting." And for the reason that the Rino 120 had standard FRS / GMRS capabilities, you can talk to friends or family who own conventional FRS / GMRS radios. There's also a voice scrambler and a vibration mode for silent calls. Check it out: WAAS-enabled GPS receiver 22 communication channels: 1-14 FRS, 15-22 GMRS 38 sub-audible squelch codes per transmission channel for privacy Transmission distance of up to two miles implementing FRS, up to 5 miles with GMRS (implementing GMRS frequency in the U.S. needs a FCC license) External voice activation (VOX) Ergonomic design for a single-handed operation, with contact, press-to-speak (PTT) and page mode buttons on the side, power / backlighting button on leading, and volume and zoom buttons in front Special 5-way cursor for channel choice and volume adjustment in FRS / GMRS mode, and fast map planning, entering and deciding on functions in GPS mode Voice scrambler and vibration mode for silent calls Built in basemap consisting of American road and highway detail, along

Technical Details

2-Way, Handheld 2-Mile Frs ; 5-Mile Gmrs Radio Combined With WAAS-Enabled GPS
Waterproof
Integrated 12-Channel GPS
22 Communication Channels
User May Select 1 Of 38 Sub-Audible Squelch Codes For Semi-Private Conversation

Customer Evaluations

I purchased this device to cut down by one the number of electronic gizmos that I carry around whilst traveling with my household, not for its position transmission feature. Just after employing the Rino I feel that the combination of radio and GPS in 1 device is an excellent concept in theory, but the execution of the thought in the Rino is flawed due to the fact of the poor overall performance of the radio.
The GPS in the Rino 120 is pretty related if not identical to the Garmin etrex Legend and even the included basemap is helpful for rough navigation. I found the GPS user interface to be pretty intuitive. Additional, the satellite reception was significantly superior than I expected surprisingly, I could get a 2d lock from inside my residence. Way more memory would be nice for downloading MapSource maps, but actually I don't have any substantive criticism of the GPS - this is what Garmin does, and does nicely, in the rest of its product line.
But, I was so disappointed in the efficiency of the Rino as a radio that I returned the unit. I'm an amateur radio operator and I nicely know the limitations of FRS / GMRS in simplex (no repeater) operation. (If you didn't currently know, those "two" and "five" mile maximum range claims that all radio manufacturers seem to make are obtainable only below the most favorable conditions and in the genuine planet you will do nicely to get, at preferred, half of those distances.) Even within these limitations, the radio in the Rino is poor by comparison to great standalone FRS radios (We use Icom 4008A's).
When I was testing the Rino, I set it side by side in my residence with my Icom and put to use each to scan the FRS channels for targeted traffic. The Icom repeatedly picked up clearly audible conversations (by consumers making use of unknown kinds of FRS radios) that the Rino by no means heard. When I turned off the squelch on the Rino ("monitor mode") and set it to the channel the Icom stopped on, I could hear only the faintest echoes of transmissions that had been clearly audible on the Icom. On a recent trip, I was implementing the Rino and was standing suitable next to my wife who was wearing an Icom. One other in our party referred to as us from maybe 1/2 mile away utilizing his Icom. I could hear him clearly on my wife's radio when the Rino barely broke squelch and was unintelligible.
If your use for this device is heavy on the GPS side and light on the radio side, then I would take into consideration it. If you are seeking for a radio that incidentally contains a GPS, I would pass on the Rino for now, go for the Batman appear and acquire standalone GPS and FRS / GMRS devices. No, you will not have the position reporting function this way, and that is a single of the strongest points of the Rino. Yet, given that this function is tied to the Rino's FRS performance, don't expect too substantially.
All in all, kudos to Garmin for this definitely remarkable thought, and I will undoubtedly get a different release of the Rino in the future if Garmin will give us radio overall performance equivalent to their remarkable GPS. Frankly, I would be prepared to pay alot more for the unit if it had that kind of overall performance.

I purchased 3 units and they all have the exact same difficulty: the slightest impact can result in them to shed power and demand that the power be switched back on. Specifically, when dropped from a height of much less than an inch, they shut off w/o beeping or other notice. While attempting to use them in practice, everyone's unit was constantly off due to this challenge, so I will be returning mine in the hope that they will fix this trouble in future units. The predicament is that the batteries are on squishy springs, in contrast to the Motorola Talkabout's taut ones and the circuit lacks a capacitor or other implies of storing milliseconds worth of power. They will likely fix it, so not the date of this review: 12/three/02.
Also, I assumed that the units would deliver automatic position updates to other individuals in a group, but found that it only transmits one's place if a single presses Talk. Perhaps this will be fixed by a future software release.