Garmin Rino 120 GPS with 2-Way Radio by Garmin
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Digital camera reviews of Garmin Rino 120 GPS with 2-Way Radio
Digital camera Review: hunters dream
Summary: 4 Stars
My first unit had a defective radio and Garmin swapped it out and saved my waypoints. Suggest you buy ear bud w/ PTT mic. My hunting parties used them and it coordinated our hunts accurately especially sending waypoints. Bring batteries since 6hrs seems to be useable time. If money is not an issue buy 530 model since the radio power is 5 watt versus 1/2 watt and the togel switch is easier to use. Overall it made hunting with a group better.Digital camera Review: make the motorola talkabouties jealous
Summary: 4 Stars
I would have given it three stars due to its mediocre usabilty, but the concept of this radio alone earns it the 4th star.PROS
Looks really cool in dark green, people have asked me if its a satellite phone or military grade etc..
Its a really great concept, and is the forerunner of next generation mobile phone location systems.
Its a fun novelty to use, and the gps feature alone can be used in non-extreme adventure settings too- to track a run, bicycle or car trip in detail- times, average speed, top speed route, time stopped etc..., and also has a feature called area calculater which you can use to measure sizes of land by walking around the lands perimiter.
CONS
As you probably know, the coordinate sending capabilities only work in the low power FRS channels of the radio (due to FCC restrictions). I thought maybe I could find some kind of hack to override this restriction on the radio, but no luck, still searching. The way to make best use of the rinos is to coordinate with other rinos both one FRS and one GMRS frequency, and always scan between the two, just in case.
The unit will continue to send old, stale coordinates to the other unit if it hasn't gotten a new position fix to replace it. This is annoying because when you think you know where the other one is, so proud of your technology, you can be way way off, much to the humor of the person your showing it off to.
You can not use this radio as a homing device- It cannot be set to automatically send out data at intervals. (I think it would be against FCC rule for unattended broadcast, but it would be great- to attach to your child, pet, or girlfriend to make sure they stay out of trouble while at the park or beach.)
Digital camera Review: rino is junk
Summary: 2 Stars
im very disappointed in my rino 120.its plagued without problems.the microphone is not sensitive enough no matter how loud you talk into mic people can not here you on other 2 way radios.the input jack for headset is faulty you have to wiggle headphone plug around to get headphones and mic to work.basemap that is included with rino is vagued so plan on spending at least another [money]100 for mapsource cd.rino uses a click and stick button to switch modes and change setting the botton is small and difficult to use.lcd screen is so small you need a pair of binoculars to read it.i contacted garmin and they said tey were aware of the problems and were working on solutions.they would contact me when they come up with something.that was a month ago.Digital camera Review: short battery life
Summary: 3 Stars
I have the rino120 dnathe bartters go dead in about 3days. Is there somthing that i can plug into my 12v system in my car or logging truck cig liter.i am always on the road and it is hard to put batters in it while moving . thank you . larry logan 4008 wilson way lincoln dalif 95648.Digital camera Review: well it's a radio
Summary: 2 Stars
this device is as clunky as a hammer made of jello, and feels about as ergonomic.
not sure what Garmin was smoking when they made this but let's see monochrome with bad lighting controls, awful menu, tiny useless buttons, serial cable connect to pc.... yeah the totally obsolete no reason to use serial"the port no computer has had for a long time", battery compartment is well stupid but unlike the other features.
so let's summarize junk and obsolete junk this thing pisses me off and costs a couple hundred dollars.
just buy a real gps they cost less and work, and one can only hope garmin and the other mfrs have come out of the stone age and use usb.