What hand held gps thingy will give me lat and long ......

I have a mobile phone thing that err works as a phone a.Here I have to admit to the complete failure to intergrate in the 21 century and gross inability to assimilate INSTRUCTIONS on how to use technological stuff that is why I would like a GPS that does only that or has limited functions that are easily accessed with out recall to a young person.
 
Get a young person to download an app to your phone and teach u how to use it!
(If u buy a brand new item it will have its own quirks and things to learn anyway. You might as well save yourself some pennies and be dragged into the 21 century. ..
 
Depending upon why you want a handheld GPS, you might want to consider paying a little bit more and get a tablet. It will of course tell you lat and long, but will also show you where you are on a chart, check your email, let you read this forum and a lot of other really useful 21st century stuff.
 
Wansworth said:
Without a lot of complicated button pushing ,yours .
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Wansworth said:
I have a mobile phone thing that err works as a phone a.Here I have to admit to the complete failure to intergrate in the 21 century and gross inability to assimilate INSTRUCTIONS on how to use technological stuff that is why I would like a GPS that does only that or has limited functions that are easily accessed with out recall to a young person.
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A Garmin e-Trex https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/prod6403.html You can get an eTrex 10 for under £75

Popular for boat use but a bit dated now a Garmin GPS 72H https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/marine/handhelds/gps-72h/prod38309.html Useful, if expensive, accessories make it particularly attrctive for the boat.
You should be able to get one for £105 or less
 
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alteredoutlook said:
Get a young person to download an app to your phone and teach u how to use it!
(If u buy a brand new item it will have its own quirks and things to learn anyway. You might as well save yourself some pennies and be dragged into the 21 century. ..
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Wouldn't that be dependent on mobile phone coverage, hence unusable at sea?
 
Nooka said:
GPs is independent of mobile coverage.
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The GPS on some mobile devices is very slow indeed unless given a clue to its position from network information. In theory A-GPS (Assisted GPS) makes position finding faster, but in practice it seems to have been used to save money and power on the "proper" GPS side of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS
 
So probably the real question is why you want a Long Lat. Is it to plot on paper, quote over VHF, enter manually into a DSC radio...

Then the second question that if you've never done it before will be what format you want it in? If you are a traditional paper and pencil guy you'll discover that Long Lats on electronic devices are expressed as xx N yyy.zzzz rather than xx N yyy' aaa" and on internet derived maping more commonly as xx.bbbb
 
JumbleDuck said:
I'm pretty sure that early e-Trexes (e-Trices) at least did not do lat/long, but only OS grid references. I remember postings here at the time saying "nice idea, great price, shame they are no use for sailing".
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No; they would provide coordinates on a variety of systems, otherwise they'd be no use outside the UK - and Garmin are an American company. I'm pretty sure that people from BAS used them in Antarctica, where lat/long is the only viable coordinate system. However, I think it was pretty involved getting it to display alternative coordinate systems; they usually came pre-set for the region they were being used in, and you had to delve fairly deep in the menus to alter it.
 
I sympathise with OP request. As said cheap Garmin devices will show lat and long. My Etrex can be set for minutes and seconds of arc or minutes and decimal of minutes more commonly used. However the Etrex must have the "mark" button pushed to show the lat long at that instant. I think the garmin 60 shows lat and long continuously.
I found the Etrex figures a bit too small to read without my specs and especially at night. The Garmin 60 is a lot larger writing.
However with a bit of fiddling OP will get the hang of the easiest form of navigation using the way points. So by pushing a couple of buttons at various points on an outward voyage you make way points. With more button pushing often tedious you give them names. So typically you will make a way point your mooring and again the critical point when entering your harbour. End of break water or middle of the entrance channel. So now if you are out there having fun and fog closes in you can use your GPS to guide you by direction and distance to the middle of your harbour or channel entrance then you switch to waypoint mooring and it should take you to within sight of your mooring buoy.
Way point navigation is based on your going to the point and then marking it with GPS. So no numbers to fiddle with and location accurate. You then use it later and for ever as a location you can go to.
For instance I always when bush walking mark the location of the car before setting out. I then turn the GPS off and stick it in my pocket. Knowing that whatever happens I will know direction and distance to the car if I get lost. Not so useful on bush tracks as it only shows navigation as the crow flies but still useful.
It is worth the effort to master this button pushing. To get location in lat and long from a GPS transfer it to a map then plot your course has a lot more room for errors and must be repeated periodically to correct the track (ie for home) Much easier making way point and no need for a map. good luck olewill
 
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