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Welcome to this week's newsletter from GPS Training.

The picture above was taken last week, looking over the Simonside Hills, which are above the valley GPS Training is based in.

Let's see what is going on in the world of outdoor GPS navigation

Get to grips with your unit
During lockdown

Lockdown in the UK means you have a great opportunity to get to grips with your GPS unit.

You don't have to go for a long walk in the hills to get to grips with your Outdoor GPS Unit.

Plan your short local walk on Garmin BaseCamp (for Garmin users) or on Xpedition2 (for SatMap users) and then get your GPS to navigate you around it.

This could just be a local walk around where you live.

Then once you have been for your short local walk, plug your GPS unit back into your PC/ Mac and look at the 'track', the record of your walk you have just walked.

Practice makes perfect.

Do this every day and you will soon get to grips with the process and also think about both the mental and physical benefits of doing this every day!

The overview of what I am proposing can be seen here.

Then the online resource takes you through what you need to do in a step by step manner. The online resource can be found here.

Send us a photo

When you are out on your daily training walk send us a selfie or alternatively a picture of your GPS unit navigating you around your walk.

Just email your picture to office@gpstraining.co.uk

Training Courses

What GPS Training courses do we have coming up?

Garmin GPS Training weekend
Date - 16th and 17th January
Location - Northumberland
POSTPONED

SatMap GPS Training course
Date - 29th January
Location - Northamptonshire
POSTPONED

Garmin GPS Training weekend
Date - 30th and 31st January
Location - Northamptonshire
POSTPONED

SatMap GPS Training course
Date - 4th February
Location - Lake District
POSTPONED

SatMap GPS Training course
Date - 5th February
Location - Lake District
POSTPONED

View all our GPS Courses here

Top Tip - Garmin GPSMAP66s
Using waypoint averaging

The waypoint Averaging function to record a more accurate waypoint.

To find out more - Log in to o nline resource > Courses > Garmin - Units > GPSMAP66s and 66st > Module 6 - Unit 6

GPS Device Accuracy

Why does your GPS Device show a slightly different reading to your friends?

Read the article here.

Forward

Listen to our podcast
As you plan your walks

When you are sat in front computer planning your routes on your PC/ Mac listen to the GPS Training Podcast through the speakers on your computer.

Every episode is about one hour in length and you can listen and with 48 episodes to listen to, that's over 48 hours of GPS chat to listen to.

They are packed full of top tips to help you get to grips with your GPS unit and lots of general GPS chat, so what better company when you are planning your daily walk on your PC/ Mac.

Then by the end of lockdown 3, you will be a GPS wizard.

I think this year has taught us one thing.

We can sit around whilst things and other people outside our control drive the news and our opinions about things we frankly can not control.

Alternatively, we can use this time to our benefit, learn to use your GPS unit properly and go out for those daily walks, and engross yourself with the GPS Podcast as you do it.

You can listen to the GPS Training podcast online here.

Get to grips with GPX files

Next month we have a GPS Training Webinar looking at .gpx files, a way you can import pre-planned routes from the web onto your GPS unit. You can join this live webinar from the comfort of your home via zoom. You can find out more and sign up online here.

Webinars

Get to grips with both your GPS and the route planning software.

Masterclass - GPX files
Date - Wed 17th Feb
Time - 6.30 pm
PLACES LEFT - more here

Webinar - Oregon 700 and Touch
Date - Wed 10th March
Time - 6.30 pm
PLACES LEFT - more here

Webinar - BaseCamp Windows
Date - Wed 14th April
Time - 6.30 pm
PLACES LEFT - more here

Webinar - BaseCamp Mac
Date - Wed 12th May
Time - 6.30 pm
PLACES LEFT - more here

Webinar - GPSMAP66s
Date -Tues 22nd June
Time - 6.30 pm
PLACES LEFT - more here

You can view all our webinars here

Top Tip - SatMap
Turning off the touch screen

If you are in very wet conditions it may be worth switching off your touch screen.

To find out more - Log in to online resource > Courses > SatMap > SatMap Active 20 > Unit 5 - Top Tips > Second video down

And Finally ............

I hope you have enjoyed a slightly different newsletter this week from GPS Training.

Yours,
Jon and all the GPS Training team

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