A Portable And Easy To Use System To Locate Your Fish – Humminbird Piranha MAX 10

The first GPS satellite was launched in 1978, under the direct command of the US military forces. More than thirty other satellites have been launched ever since for military, aviation and individual usage worldwide. The very existence of the Global Positioning System has in fact claimed the life of more than one GPS satellite, lost [...]

Continue reading about How GPS Satellites Determine Your Position

GPS receivers are devices that get signals from orbiting satellites in order to determine the location or geographic position. There are very diverse applications of the Global Positioning System as the GPS receivers are used not only by the aviation, the marine and the military but by civilian consumers as well. The satellites spin around [...]

Continue reading about How GPS Receivers Work

iPAQ GPS devices and mapping software are widely used for quality navigation in crowded urban areas or in the highway networks. With an iPAQ GPS, the coordinates are easy to get and follow, and traveling becomes really stress free. iPAQ has a photo viewing application that allows one to add coordinates to pictures and then [...]

Continue reading about Getting Around With Your IPAQ GPS

GPS receivers are devices that get signals from orbiting satellites in order to determine the location or geographic position. The applications of the Global Position System technology are very large, with GPS receivers functioning for the aviation, the marine, the military and the average consumer. The satellites spin around Earth twice a day, and their [...]

Continue reading about Selecting a GPS Receiver

For many companies GPS car tracking is the solution that solves many security problems. In the attempt to limit criminality, the police as well as the government often use GPS car tracking, although, there are also civilians, private users that rely on such technology. The device is a small unit that when attached to a [...]

Continue reading about Tracking Your Car With GPS

According to the standard definition, a GPS receiver is a device that enables navigation through the satellite system, by determining the exact geographical location. In terms of the importance for the Global Position System, the GPS receiver plays the least significant function of all. The other two vital elements are the satellites and the control [...]

Continue reading about A Primer for GPS Receivers

 
While lots of devices are limited to in-car usage, a portable GPS system allows for all the mobility you may need. Older GPS designs require cabling and combinations either with Palms or PDAs, relying on this adaptation and on car power. A portable GPS system is a unit designed for outside usage either mounted on [...]

Continue reading about Portable GPS Systems Pack Full System Characteristics