Garmin Rino 650

The Garmin Rino 650 GPS with two way radio updates older Rinos with a touch screen interface and triaxial compass, along with other goodies common to recent Garmin handhelds, including BirdsEye aerial imagery.

I hunt alot and although I hunted for years without this type of gear, I have now found it invaluable for travelling to hunting hot spots from the hut in the dark. I now stay in place in the field longer knowing I can safely track my back in the dark...

For around 5 years I have used these to track and communicate with scouts on camp. One is used as a base station on my laptop to track the others. On numerous occasions we have found "lost" patrols. We use the free shonky maps for 1:250000 topo. We...

Ive got one given to me as a gift unfortunately by the wife, Some of the features are great but the day to day needs like GPS backtracking are crap. User interface is terrible. Radio defaults to "mute" without notice. I wear reading classes which i...

Purchased a pair of these units, one or both of the radio's didn't work new out of the box only the gps is working. Returned to the place of purchase to be advised that I needed to contact Garmin Australia, after a number of phone conversations, walk...

Purchased a set of these for our Outdoor Education groups. I have to agree with the 2 previous posts - the UHF performance is woeful. The operating range is poor, the sound from the speaker is unclear and adjusting power levels, volume etc on the go is...

gps side of things work great but the uhf is hopeless, struggle to communicate with someone 30m away line of sight

ME do not want to know about it, main reason is that we did not bring them back until they were out of warranty. The units a brand new as we put them aside when we could not get them to work Where we are its not a trip around the corner to return...

2 full days out of the battery, so the purchase of a spare battery or an alkaline pack is a must for longer trips. highly recommend.

to be very useful in a number of applications, from emergency services use (I am a member of the NSW SES and this would be very useful in land search for instance), to use by hikers, runners, cyclists, etc who want to be able to communicate a position...