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Old 08-09-2011, 11:51 PM
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GPS Query

OK.
I like GPS - very useful in my car.
But is it really any benefit to a scope?
Even if you are going off to the middle of nowhere, you can look up the co-ordinates before you go.
I mean just about everything I own will tell me to within a couple of hundred meters where I am (Telephone, i-Whatsits, Tom-Tom, Laptop etc.).
Do I really need to fork out the extra hundred or so dollars for a dedicated unit for a mount?
Does it make the mount more accurate than simply entering the co-ordinates manually?
Will the mount 'forget' where it is without one?
Given that I can input co-ordinates faster than it takes a GPS unit to lock-on (if at all), aren't they, well frankly, a bit of a waste of money?
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