GPSMAP
®
196
©2002 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries
Garmin International, Inc.
1200 East 151st Street
Olathe, Kansas 66062, U.S.A.
913/397.8200 fax 913/397.8282
GARMIN (Europe) Ltd.
Unit 5, The Quadrangle
Abbey Park Industrial Estate
Romsey, SO51 9AQ, U.K.
44/1794.519944 fax 44/1794.519222
GARMIN (Asia) LTD
No. 68, Jangshu 2nd Rd.
Shijr, Taipei County, Taiwan
886/2.2642.9199 fax 886/2.2642.9099
www.garmin.com
Specifications are preliminary and subject to change
without notice.
* Subject to accuracy degradation to 100m
2DRMS under the U.S. Department of Defense
imposed Selective Availability Program.
GPSMAP
®
196 specifications
Moving map features
Basemap:
Built-in routable basemap (North America
and South America) contains state and
country boundaries, lakes, rivers, streams,
airports, cities, towns, coastlines, state
and interstate highways, local thoroughfares
and secondary roads within metro areas,
federal interstate highway exit information
for services such as food, lodging and
truck, RV and automotive service stations
Database:
Built-in Jeppesen
®
; includes worldwide
airports and VOR’s, plus Americas, or
Atlantic international, or Pacific international
NDB’s, intersections, special use and
controlled airspace, runway data, plus
airport, FSS, and ARTCC frequencies
Approach waypoints: Jeppesen
®
data also includes final
approach sequence waypoints for all
published approaches
Uploadable maps:
Accepts optional data cards for
detailed maps
Power
Source:
Four “AA” batteries (not included)
Battery life:
Up to 16 hours with no backlighting
Up to 4 hours with full backlighting
Physical
Size:
6.18"W x 3.4"H x 2.25"D
(15.7 x 8.64 x 5.72 cm)
Weight:
1.5 lbs (680 g) with batteries
Display:
3.8" diagonal (9.65 cm) 320 x 240 pixels,
12-level gray high contrast FSTN with
backlighting
Case:
Fully gasketed, high impact plastic alloy,
waterproof to IEC 529 IPX7 standards
Temperature range:
5ºF to 158ºF (-15ºC to 70ºC)
User data storage:
Indefinite
Accessories
Standard:
Auto mount
PC interface cable
GA 26C with suction mount
Portable antenna
Free single Jeppesen
®
update
12-volt adapter cable
Yoke mount
Owner’s manual
Quick reference guide
Optional:
Auto mounting kit: (includes 64 MB data card, auto mount,
beanbag mount, USB data card programmer
and City Select U.S. Full Coverage)
Remote antennas
Deluxe carrying case
12-volt adapter cable
MapSource
™
CD-ROMs
8, 16, 32, 64 and 128 MB data cards
USB data card programmer
PC interface cable with 12-volt adapter
A/C PC adapter
Navigation features
Waypoints:
Total:
1000 with 10 characters (
name and symbol
)
Nearest:
Continuously updated; Airport, VOR,
NDB, INT, user, ARTCC, FSS, airspace, Wx
Routes:
50 reversible routes with up to 50 points
each, plus TracBack
®
modes
Automatic turn-by-turn along-road routes
Tracks:
2500 point automatic track log; 15 saved
tracks; 500 points per saved track; lets
you retrace your path in both directions
Trip computer:
Trip odometer, stopped time, moving
average, moving time, total average,
total time, maximum speed, odometer
Alarms:
Airspace, arrival, off-course,
proximity waypoint, clock
Tables:
Built-in celestial tables for best times
to fish and hunt, sunrise and sunset,
sun and moon by date and position
Map datums:
More than 100 plus user datum
Position format:
Lat/Lon, UTM/UPS, Maidenhead, MGRS,
Loran TDs and other grids, including
user grid
GPS performance
Receiver:
WAAS enabled, 12 parallel channel GPS
receiver continuously tracks and uses up
to 12 satellites to compute and update
your position
Acquisition times:
Warm:
Approximately 15 seconds
Cold:
Approximately 45 seconds
AutoLocate
™
:
Approximately 2 minutes
Update rate:
1/second, continuous
GPS accuracy:
Position:
< 15 meters, 95% typical*
Velocity:
0.05 meter/sec steady state
DGPS (USCG) accuracy:
Position:
3-5 meters, 95% typical
Velocity:
0.05 meter/sec steady state
DGPS (WAAS) accuracy:
Position:
< 3 meters, 95% typical
Velocity:
0.05 meter/sec steady state
Dynamics:
6 g’s
Interfaces:
RS232 with NMEA 0183, RTCM 104 DGPS
data format and proprietary GARMIN
Antenna:
Removable quad-helix
Differential:
WAAS, marine beacon
0702
M02-10064-00
Panel screen
Map screen (with HSI)
Automatic log book
Turn-by-turn directions
