GARMIN GPSMAP76

Features:

• Portable, robust, water resistant (floats), easy to use
• Large, easy to read display with 4 grayscales and background illumination (180x240 pixels)
• Multilingual user interface in Cestina, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian (Firmware V2.09 and later), Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish
• Integrated world map (overview) with countries of all continents including major cities
• Integrated base map of Europe, Africa and the near East with countries, waters, towns, highways, major roads and city maps. Navigational information are available for the following countries: country list
• 8 MB built-in memory to download additional, even more detailed maps with roads, crossings and addresses of restaurants, public buildings, points of interest etc. from a PC.
• User configurable display (number and contents of data fields)
• Integrated 12 channel receiver with very sensitive built-in antenna
• Connector for external antenna (antenna available as an option)
• Powered by batteries (2x AA, last approx. 16 h) or by an external 12 V power source, e.g. from a car's cigarette lighter (power cord available as an option)
• Short time to first fix (TTFF¹: approx. 15 seconds after a warm start, meaning there are valid coordinates of the satellites available, or approx. 45 seconds after a cold start, meaning there are no valid coordinates of the satellites available)
• Supports the following protocols for data exchange with PC: NMEA 0183 with 4800 Baud, GARMIN, GARMIN DGPS, Text, RTCM IN, RTCM/NMEA and RTCM/TEXT
• DGPS (Differential GPS) ready (GARMIN differential receiver available as an option)
• Supports more than 100 different datum (coordinate systems)
• Supports various display formats include the Swiss Grid
• Memory gauge
• Firmware stored in Flash-Memory, can be updated by the user
• Operating temperatures -15 .. 70°C (5° .. 158°F)
• Serial interface RS-232 (connection cable available as an option)
• Dimensions: 157x69x33 mm (1.3x2.7x6.2 inches)
• Weight: 215 g (7.5 ounces, without batteries)

¹) TTFF: Time To First Fix, time until the first information about the local position is acquired.

Information for navigation:

• Information about the position of the GPS satellites and about the quality of the signals
• World map with zoom function in the range of 1200 km to 30 m (800 mi to 120 ft)
• Information on the map displayed in 5 levels of details
• Distance measuring (direct distance)
• Find waypoints, cities and exits
• Extended search function for points of interest, addresses and intersections, if there is a MapSource map available in memory. These maps require a Windows PC plus a connection cable and are available as options, see MapSource.
• Stores up to 1'000 waypoints with name (up to 10 characters), icon (choice of 75 symbols), coordinates and altitude
• Stores up to 50 routes with up to 50 waypoints per route. Shows the current position in relation to these waypoints (direction and distance)
• Current position (longitude, latitude, altitude)
• Current accuracy of the position information
• Current time and date
• Current bearing
• Current, average and maximum speed
• Trip duration and distance (Odometer)
• Records the travelled path (track), capacity 10'000 track points
• Stores 10 travelled routes (tracks) with up to 750 track points for each track
• Time of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, current phase of the moon, constellation sun-earth-moon
• Tide information depending on the current location
• Supports metric, nautical and U.S. units

Marine information:

• The anchor drag alarm goes off, if the boat has drifted more than the distance set by the user
• The off course alarm goes off, if the boat is off course more than the distance set by the user
• The shallow water alarm goes off, if the water depth is less than the value set by the user (requires a device that supplies the DPT sentence)
• The deep water alarm goes off, if the water depth is more than the value set by the user (requires a device that supplies the DPT sentence)