GlobalSat BU-353 Waterproof USB GPS Receiver
by GlobalSat
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Customer Review: Awesome!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This GPS is awesome!!! I have struggled with trying to interface handheld GPS to my laptop for a couple of years. I live aboard a sailboat in the Caribbean using navigation software to plan my passages and have been frustrated trying to use my handheld GPS input which resulted in continual problems. That has all been changed using this new GPS and couldn't be happier with it's ease of installation and awesome performance. It picks up the signal below at my nav station, aquires quickly and performs without causing any problems with my computer. I have tried several systems and this unit outperforms them and I cannot recommend this unit highly enough, you will not be sorry...Customer Review: Works great in Sailboat!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the GlobalSat BU-353 GPS mouse from amazon and installed the drivers from their online site. My laptop runs Windows XP home with a free Chart software called OpenCPN and the free charts downloaded from nauticalcharts.noaa.gov, yes you can your charts for free from NOAA!
Last weekend was the real test. We sailed from San Francisco Bay to Half Moon Bay with an overcast sky and I used the GPS mouse/laptop in the cabin at the nav station! I just left it sitting next to the laptop, not outside! Next day we sailed from Half Moon Bay to Moss Landing and it worked perfectly.
This GPS mouse works great.
Customer Review: Fantastic!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Absolutely fantastic! It exceeded my expectations. It's solidly built (which was one of my concerns, given the cheap price), extremely easy to install, and very, very fast and accurate.
I almost went with a more expensive model, just because I couldn't believe that such a cheap GPS could possibly work as well as advertised. I honestly expected a cheaply made GPS... but I was very pleasantly surprised!
Just fantastic. If you're looking for a GPS receiver to use with a product such as Microsoft's Streets and Trips, or GRLevel 3 radar, or some other similar GPS compatible software, then look no further!
Customer Review: Great product & great price.
Summary: 5 Stars
This product worked just as described in the product specification. It took a second to install and it worked great with Microsoft Mappoint 2006. It only took a couple of second to receive the GPS signal and the rest is easy. I didn't have to put the receiver on the roof of my car, it picked up the signal wherever you are, even inside my home I still got the signal. This product is amazing and I would recommend it to anyone who own a laptop. I had no problem installing it on windows XP. You simply plug the device, put the CD driver on and "Voila", it's done. Get yourself one, it is well worth it.Customer Review: Vista and MapPoint 2006
Summary: 5 Stars
This unit worked flawlessly w/ my Dell 1525 laptop, Vista and MapPoint 2006.
I picked this up for a trip from Atlanta to Wisconsin in a 24ft moving truck. I had the gps unit sitting on the dash w/ the laptop on the seat and it never dropped signal or had any problems even tho I was always facing north and had the tall box of the truck and roof of the cab in the 'line of sight' to the satellites.
The only 'gotcha' was make sure you run the included GPSInfo program as administrator. Initially when I ran gpsinfo to test the gps I was not running as admin and the program would not detect the gps.