A great item for a Uniden scanner

This item was bought for the primary purpose of working in conjunction with the Uniden BCD996T mobile scanner. The scanner has the capability of monitoring statewide trunking radio sites. The Garmin GPS 18 operates by opening and closing statewide trunking radio cellsites, with the use of Long and Lat coordinates. This item is very effective for it's purpose and is highly recommended for those who'll use it for this purpose.

Rating:


using it with a pocketPC and mapoplolis

I use this with a couple different pocketPC's and love it. Combined with mapopolis it makes the best address level routing device that I've used outside of a dedicated routing GPS. I've got it hard wired into my jeep with a powered ipaq cradle mounted to the dash and the convenience of using it couldn't be easier.

Rating:


Works with everything. Great performance.

I prefer the PC version over the USB because of it's compatibility with everything. Even thought I don't have a serial port in my laptop I actually got a USB-to-Serial converter just to use the GPS18 PC.

Make sure to configure the unit's baud speed by using Garmin's configuration software. It originally comes working at 4800 but it supports 38400. 4800 is too slow to get updated location data and may cause the movement in GPS navigation software to lag.

Rating: