Old Garmin 128 GPS, amazing price!

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I was looking for something similar as I like basic GPS's and put a bid on this one, £50.
It went for somewhat more..
if it was sold by someone here ( from Maldon) congratulations to you :)
 

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I would imagine the seller is still laughing and dancing! ebay is amazing at times, i have watched second hand rods and reels sell for twice the retail price:rolleyes:
I wonder if my old navstar 2000D is still in the garage:D
 
I still have one of those. Somewhere. Considering you can't get charts for them any more I would have thought they were worthless?

Mine is faulty. First it's memory battery failed so it would not remember waypoints or tracks. I replaced it twice (soldered in nicad) but each time it's life got shorter before it needed replacing again. Now it won't start up so I wonder if another battery has failed (software stored in ram?)

Perhaps I will put mine on ebay as spares or repair. On second thoughts not, I sold a faulty LCD tv, clearly described as faulty and under the "for parts or not working" clasification, and the buyer complained it did not work and ebay forced me to refund them. That was the last item I sold on ebay, I can't be doing with that stupidity.
 
I still have one of those. Somewhere. Considering you can't get charts for them any more I would have thought they were worthless?
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They never had a chart in them, they had a simple plotter type screen that you could add waypoints to.
 
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Still got one on Fairwinds (though we have a Garmin 450 as well for inshore work).

It's a great piece of kit - got a repeater in the cockpit. When offshore this is stil the primary navigation aid. It saw us to the Canaries from Scotland and back via the Azores, though I had to fit a new internal battery in Gran Canaria.

Well worth £50 of anyone's money if that is the sort of thing you are looking for. Minimal current consumption as well.


- W
 
Ive got a 128 on my boat. Thought id upgrade and bought a all singing all dancing chartplotter. chartplotter packed up, The Garmin is perfect for waypoints and tracks. Now I use the garmin 128 for most things and the chartplotter well its good for something. lots of people looking for them specifically. id not sell mine.

Steveeasy
 
A particularly useful feature of the 128 is Proximity Waypoints. You set a guard distance from the waypoint and it alarms if position gets closer than that distance to the waypoint. Handy for avoiding obstacles.

This is a feature that I haven't found on modern plotters that I've used.

Derek
 
I still rely on my 128 as a primary navigation tool, great bit of kit. I was upset a few years ago when lightning fried it. The 128 had been discontinued but Garmin supplied a factory refurbished one at a bargain price.
 
Slight thread drift but.......

We have one of these on the yacht I sail on but since the GPS upgrades earlier this year we haven't been able to get it to work. Does anyone have any experience of this issue or can point me in the direction of a fix?

We use it for racing round the cans and have all the club marks on it

Thanks
 
Not sure it's the update that did for it. Mine still works perfectly at around 15 years old.

Sure I'd like a plotter, but I've got far too many other things to spend 300-odd quid on, so my phone will have to keep doing that job. OTO, someone else bid £359, so maybe, just maybe...
 
Notice that the winning bidder has rating on (0).

But these do often go for very good prices, which seem to be rising. I sold one on eBay which went via the International Shipping Service. From what I can tell the same buyer was picking up a number of them.
 
CamR said:
Slight thread drift but.......

We have one of these on the yacht I sail on but since the GPS upgrades earlier this year we haven't been able to get it to work. Does anyone have any experience of this issue or can point me in the direction of a fix?

Not sure I can help with your 128, But the bouys in the Solent are all downloadable so you can with one click put them on a micro card and load them straight on to a chartplotter. My Garmin works fine not sure what GPS upgrades you are referring to.

Steveeasy

We use it for racing round the cans and have all the club marks on it

Thanks
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cpedw said:
A particularly useful feature of the 128 is Proximity Waypoints. You set a guard distance from the waypoint and it alarms if position gets closer than that distance to the waypoint. Handy for avoiding obstacles.

This is a feature that I haven't found on modern plotters that I've used.
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My Matsutec HP-33A does that as an "Arrival alarm".
 
cpedw said:
A particularly useful feature of the 128 is Proximity Waypoints. You set a guard distance from the waypoint and it alarms if position gets closer than that distance to the waypoint. Handy for avoiding obstacles.

This is a feature that I haven't found on modern plotters that I've used.

Derek
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The GOS 72H handhelds have that.. also on Google Maps on the phone..yes quite useful
 
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