> Isn't electronics great??!! Man i love them. I have hookup for
> the laptop
> as well, and am looking into the GPS Laptop Tracking system...GPS
> is USB'd
> to laptop..and tracks your trip on a map.
I actually already have delorme.com's Street Atlas USA 8.0 and a garmin.com
Etrex hand-held GPS. The tracking works really well. The route planning
works pretty well too, although you have to be wary. One time we dead ended
at someone's house mid-route.
The Etrex was inexpensive, but the power + serial cable was a ridiculous
$40.
I'm interested in replacing the Etrex with something permanent to help
reduce wire clutter and so that it'll automatically turn on and off with the
truck.
> You have me thing about trying
> and geting goodies back into my stock console....
Hopefully that's a good thing. If not...sorry! :-)
> Hmmmmmm.... My scanner unit
> might be too wide though... ill have to check on it...
> As for the anenna situation... Its really quite easy. There are
> abunch of
> ways to go about it. Once you get your location figured
> out....and whether
> or not you want perm-a-mount of just the magentic/clamp style.. let me
> know.. ill give you a run down of how mine are run.. as well as my strobe
> cables...as they have to be run through the body panels as well...
Cool.
About the only thing I know so far is that I don't want a magnetic mount.
Gotta keep that sucker attached when I'm finding out the fastest speed my
Dak will go. :)
I've read that roof mounts are best because of the ground plane and the
height. And I'm not necessarily afraid of drilling holes in my Dak. But if
I ever put a roof rack up there I don't want the antenna getting in the way.
And someday I'd like to get a canopy, so mounting on the bed rail won't
work. I've read bumper mounts are bad.
I saw a mount on another Dak that I really liked the look of, but I don't
know how good it was. It was sort of in front of and to the right of the
driver's mirror. I think there was a bracket sticking out from under the
hood. I don't know how the bracket was attached though.
> -Dakota
> http://www.dakota2.4mg.com
> UPDATED 4/4/01!!!
> 8 Strobe Lights, Scanner, CB, Laptop, Light contro Box...Coming soon...
> GPS!!!!
-- Tod Oace, tod@quay.com
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