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Welcome to this week's newsletter from GPS Training.

The picture above was taken at Kielder Reservoir, Northumberland, before the current lockdown.

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

What do you carry with you
in your rucksack

What random bits of ‘super useful kit’ do you carry when hill walking?

I don’t mean map, compass, warm clothing, etc I mean the odd things like a couple of meters of gaffer tape around your flask, the food you don’t really like that you don’t really like (so you won’t snack on it) but you will eat if you are stuck out overnight).

What random but ingenious bits and bobs do you carry? Let us know.

You can see what we have in our rucksacks here.

Garmin Instinct Solar
Solar Powered GPS Watch.

More here

Training Courses

What GPS Training courses do we have coming up?

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

Garmin GPS Training weekend
Date - 6th and 7th February
Location - Lake District
POSTPONED

View all our GPS Courses here

Top Tip - Garmin
Number of waypoints

If you are route planning in your Garmin GPS or on BaseCamp Software there is a max. number of points that you can have in the route -

Direct Routing - 250
Auto Routing (Turn by Turn) using routing such as Cycling etc. - 50

A look at the Garmin range of GPS watches

When you first look at purchasing a GPS watch it can be a bit of a minefield.

Therefore, when looking at the Garmin range of GPS watches there are a number of things you need to consider.

Watch the video here.

Forward

GPS Training webinars
what are they?

The GPS Training webinars are live training seminars that will teach you how to use your Garmin GPS and also Garmin BaseCamp the route planning software.

We have a couple of free videos you can watch that will hopefully shed some light on exactly what they are. You can watch those here.

Next month we have a GPS Training Webinar looking at .gpx files.

You can find out more about this webinar and sign up online here.

Fenix 6 Sapphire Titanium
Premium end GPS Watch

More 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
Number of waypoints

There is no limit within the SatMap Active 12 unit, but for speed of loading, we tend to keep our Routes to within 500 points.

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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