Garmin eTrex H Handheld GPS Navigator
Perfect for outdoor enthusiasts on a budget, eTrex H comes with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver that locks onto satellite signals quickly and maintains accuracy – even in the toughest conditions. And just like the popular eTrex, this little yellow wonder combines an intuitive interface and a rugged exterior into a lightweight handheld that fits in the palm of your hand.With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, eTrex H locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. The advantage is clear – whether you’re in deep woods or just near tall buildings and trees, you can count on eTrex H to help you find your way when you need it the most.You can operate your eTrex H with just one hand using five buttons, which are located on either side of eTrex H within easy reach of your fingers. Thanks to its bright yellow case, eTrex H is easy to find in your boat or backpack. And, eTrex H is IPX7 waterproof, so it can take an accidental splash or dunk in the water and still continue to perform.With eTrex H, your adventure can last and last – up to 17 hours on just 2 AA batteries. While you roam, you can store up to 500 waypoints in memory for easy retrieval. Just enter the point you want to go to, and eTrex H points you to your destination (no street or terrain maps). To get home, use Garmin’s exclusive TrackBack feature to reverse your track log and help you navigate back to your starting point.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Defective unit? I’m afraid to try again…
Well, after finally getting the hang of this not-very-intuitive unit to do some geocaching with my son, I have become increasingly frustrated with its unreliable accuracy. Sometimes we are 20+ feet from a cache, according to the GPS, when we manage to find the cache on our own. The worst thing that I’ve noticed, though, is that we can be standing completely motionless and the directional arrow will wave in all directions and the distance to destination will change by as much as 10 or 12 feet. Is this common? Why does this happen?
Others’ reviews have been much more positive and I’m wondering whether I’m expecting too much from such an inexpensive GPS. I am returning but not exchanging. Bummer…
5 Stars Handy Garmin
Have used the Unit in my kayaks and found it to be convenient, accurate, and useful..Recommend to anyone needing to keep track of their position and/or details of their trip.
5 Stars Great for beginning geocacher
I bought this unit a little over a month ago and it’s great! I bought it to start geocaching and use it to mark the coordinates of the location I leave my car when hiking. Easy to use right out of the box, took only 20 minutes to locate satellites, I’ve heard of some taking hours but it wasn’t true for me. I just placed it in my kitchen window. The battery life is great for geocaching, I haven’t had to replace them in the month I’ve been caching.
I would recommend this product for geocaching, it’s “cheap” enough to allow children to take the lead on a hunt and rugged enough to roll around the back the car or at the bottom of a bag/purse/tote bag.
5 Stars A Great Point-to-Point GPS
I bought this primarily for hikes into backcountry so I could follow my “breadcrumb trail” and find my way back. For this it is perfect. I also will use this in conjunction with map and compass, the H will give me my exact location and I can orient myself to where I want to go. Having a GPS with the maps in it is great, but I would never totally depend on a mapping GPS alone; it is still electronics and dependent on batteries and it can go down on you when you need it. You go out into unknown wilderness areas often, you better learn how to use map and compass; it isn’t difficult.
Figure out your real needs; either spend the $$$ and get a complete GPS or get the basic H; the models in between are mostly garmin product differentation strategy…
4 Stars Good starter GPS
This is our first GPS. Got to try out Geocaching. Since we didn’t know if we’d like it or not, we didn’t want to spend the money on a more expensive unit. All in all – we love it. It is accurate in our are up to (about) 15 feet, would be nice to have a more accurate unit, but we knew about this when we bought it. I would recommend for anyone who wants to try out a GPS unit.
