Globalsat bt 359 manual

GlobalSat GPS receivers allow for real-time street navigation by using your laptop for graphical plotting and positioning of your route.

Simply pair the GPS receiver, with your Bluetooth enabled device, install your own personal mapping software, and begin to view your position in real-time in relation to the surrounding streets in your travel area.

Page 6: Changing The Battery 3. Use the pull tab to lift out Li-ion battery. Page 8: Initializing Your Gps Receiver 5. If there is no GPS data displayed or data with multiple zeros in them , please exit the software and unplug the GPS receiver from the USB port and reinsert it after 10 seconds to reset the device. NOTE: Configuration or selection of an assigned COM port for the GPS device from within your mapping or charting software must be completed whenever using a software for the first time.

Page Faq's If you are parked in a covered parking lot or near a tall building, it is recommended that you drive away until you have a clear view of the sky before using the GPS receiver. You may need to give the GPS a few minutes to find or get a fix its location. Page Contact Information 9. Your personal judgment, traffic Page Limited Warranty Page Bt Specifications Print page 1 Print document 13 pages.

Rename the bookmark. Delete bookmark? Cancel Delete. In fact is is quite amazing how little space there is for the GPS and Bluetooth components in the receiver. GlobalSat have incorporated a feature to save battery drainage from people like me who leave the GPS switched on after you arrive at your destination.

If the receiver does not detect a connection then it will automatically power itself off after 10 minutes of inactivity. One of the features that a lot of people ask for is a receiver that will remain powered and active when installed permanently in a car. There is never quite the ideal solution to this, but GlobalSat have moved closer to it. If you install the BT with a permanent USB power connection then it will not automatically switch off after 10 minutes of non-activity.

However you will have to connect it to an always on power source. Most cars switch the power to the cigar lighter off when the ignition is off. A PocketGPSworld. As usual the casing just happened to erm accidentally fall open in my hands. Unfortunately the circuit board was affixed rather firmly to the upper case and as I didn't want to damage the receiver I could not open it fully.

However I was able to prise the edges up and take peek at the internals. This receiver uses the tried and trusted ceramic patch antenna which is located directly under the metal shielding.

This is still true with the new GlobalSat BT devices. GlobalSat have made a stylish, well designed GPS receiver, which is still packed full of features. Once paired it is simply a matter of selecting the correct serial port in your navigation application and you will be ready to navigate. I have found the bluetooth range to be in excess of 3 metres making it ideal for just about any application. Indeed if you have a coated windscreen you will need to position the GPS in the rear window to obtain satellite reception.

The Bluetooth range is perfect for that. I balanced the GPS on my dash to take this photo and forgot to reposition it in the corner of the screen where it normally sits. Of course the first bend I went round resulted in the GPS taking a very abrupt excursion to the floor. Not only did it end up right in the passenger footwell, but it managed to flip over and the antenna is facing down.

Amazingly this didn't affect the performance of the GlobalSat BT too much. Even in this position the GPS receiver was still able to pull in signals from 7 satellites and provide more than adequate positioning data to navigate by. It is also compatible with all of the GPS software that I have tried.

It obviously will not get a fix in the carpark, but on emerging into the open sometimes it can take 5 minutes or more to get a fix. I am fortunate in that I live in an area where the buildings rarely rise above 2 stories, which is not a good place to test urban canyons. I was also testing a number of other GPS devices so I had a short trip that I recorded on each device from my hotel to the Tourist Bus stop.

The route walked was exactly the same, but the BT was somewhat more accurate I was walking up the left side of the street. Half way up the image there is a green zigzag. The GPS retained the fix inside the store. Interestingly both devices show errors towards the top where I turned left. This is because there is a huge skyscraper there and the GPS was trying to decipher lots of "multi-path" data. The BT handled this better than the BT as you would expect.

And finally the battery life. GlobalSat quote it as 11 hours continuous usage. It is somewhat unusual for a manufacturer to be conservative with these sort of figures, but my testing proved to get over 15 hours from a charge.

This is a shade less than the low power GlobalSat BT GlobalSat have done it again with the new generation Bluetooth GPS receivers, more functionality, smaller size, and now they look good too With the introduction of the TomTom Mk2 GPS and the Leadtek the market was starting to change and the receivers were becoming smaller, more practical and stylish. GlobalSat has responded with a receiver that in my opinion is better than the BT in all aspects with the exception of battery power, but who needs more than 15 hours anyway?