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I was gone over the weekend on vacation (filial piety tour 2006!) and then I was sick when I got back. Starting right now, today, I'm going to try for 30 posts in 30 days again, since I failed so spectacularly last time.
We we got back, something that I'd bought on ebay had finally arrived:
I bought a (used, obviously) Garmin GPSCom 190 on ebay a couple of weeks ago. This unit would be just the treat for flying in something small, like a Hummel Bird or BK, because it's a navigation system and radio all in one, and it weights just a couple of pounds.
This auction was sort of a long shot. The GPSCOM 190 is a very old model, and they don't come up for sale very often. The seller of this one bought an airplane and wanted to put a better GPS in it, so technitian "just cut the wires". You'll notice above the spliced-together power wires. I'm charging the battery here, with the grey box which is an old disk drive power supply.
Below is the unit still attached to the yoke mount, as it came out of the box:
Buying something like that, untested, condition-unknown is chancy. You pay much less than you would otherwise but take the risk that it's a dud and doesn't work. I got lucky this time:
