Other features include:

• Waypoints: Store up to 500 waypoints with names and symbols
• Route: Create 1 route with up to 50 waypoints
• Track Log: Automatically tracks your travel with up to 2,000 log points
• Tracks: Save up to 10 tracks from the track log with the ability to navigate the track path in both forward and reverse
• Language support: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

Power and Size
The GPS 100 is powered by two AA batteries (not included). It measures 4.7 x 2.3 x 1.5 inches and weighs 5.3 ounces without batteries.

What's In The Box
This package includes the Cobra GPS 100 unit, User Guide and Quick Reference Guide in 8 languages, and lanyard cord.

Product Description
This 18 parallel channel GPS receiver continuously tracks and uses up 18 satellites to compute and update user's position giving quickest acquisition time of any handheld recreational GPS receiver available. Store up to 500 waypoints with names and symbols. Create 1 route with up to 50 waypoints. Save up to 10 tracks from the track log with the ability to navigate the track path in both forward and reverse. Choose from up to 100 map datums to compare with a paper map or other navigational reference. Choose from 18 position formats used to display the location coordinates. The GPS 100Automatically tracks your travel with up to 2, 000 log points. Selectable Data Fields function lets the user display up to 5 fields about their position or navigation chosen from: Accuracy, Average Speed, Bearing, Date, Destination, Elevation, ETA, Location, Maximum Speed, Odometer, Power, Speed, Time, Trip Odometer, Trip Time. Unit, User Guide and Quick Reference Guide support 8 languages including Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Additional features include Compass, Altimeter, Clock, Indefinite User Data Storage.

I have other Cobra products that are great, however the most disappointing thing about thie unit is that the advertisement of features is at best inaccurate and at worst misleading. It seems that the unit is working like the rest, but certainly without the improved capabilities expounded by Cobra.

Update: Cobra replaced the unit with a new one with no questions asked. Still problematic but due to Cobra Customer Service being proactive, I raised the rating.


4 of 5 reviews were right...   December 27, 2004
 9 out of 9 found this review helpful

First let me say that I'm not one of those GPS users who expects to have a signal everywhere I go. After all, these satellites are miles above the earth floating in space! So while I expect to lose signals every now and then I don't expect to never receive them.

My unit had some trouble picking up a satellite for the first time. The manual said 50 seconds but I waited a good 5 minutes. The manual also says something like it shouldn't take more than 35 seconds to receive a signal if it's cold, or 20 seconds if it's warm. I waited minutes everytime I turned it on.

When I did get a signal, the data seemed to be very skewed. I walked 30 feet across my flat backyard and it said I dropped 20+ feet in elevation. It lost it's signal pretty often. Then, about 5 minutes later, the unit crashed. Like a computer. The whole unit was frozen, backlight on, and a huge line across the screen. No matter what button I pushed the screen wouldn't change. So I tried to turn it off, but even the power button wouldn't turn it off. I had to take out the batteries.

Ok, beginner's bad luck. I reinstalled the batteries (which were new at the time!) and tried again. After 5 minutes of waiting for reception, the unit crashed once more in the exact same manner it had 20 minutes before that. I decided then and there to return it. If this thing has trouble finding a signal, let alone keep from crashing, then I can't trust it to get me where I need to go in the backcountry.

To be fair, I tested the unit on a calm, slightly overcast night with the temperature in the mid 40's F. I think they would be nice test conditions for any unit.

I returned it for a Garmin eTrex Venture for a few dollars more and am much happier with it. It even held a signal in the same conditions that I tested the Cobra GPS 100 in.

My advice: go with a brand you trust like Garmin or Magellan.


GPS loses signal and cannot reacquire   April 23, 2004
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

This is one of the worst GPS units I have used. The keys are not intuitive, the battery cover does not fit correctly (how can it be IPX7 water resistant compliant as advertised?), the unit loses GPS lock, when GPS lock is lost it cannot reacquire it.

The screens are nice in that you can configure the information, but the unit is not as flexible as say a Magellan Meridian.


Cobra GPS 100: only good as a paperweight   July 9, 2004
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

This unit can almost never lock onto a satelite. When it does it is innaccurate. I am returning it.


Take everyone's advice   July 1, 2005
 7 out of 9 found this review helpful

DON'T BUY IT

If cost is the issue buy a cheap Garmin brand gpsr. I naively bought this model when I got introduced to geocaching last spring, thinking I'd buy a cheap gps receiver in case I didn't like the sport.

This device has many flaws. The gps unit only updated your location every 5 minutes or so. Reading the manual didn't help, I had to contact cobra so they could instruct me how to turn off their moronic "power saving" mode.

I had several days where there was not a cloud in the sky, yet no connection to the satellites could be found. I routinely got different coordinates when standing in the exact same spot of my driveway, sometimes over 100 yards away from eachother.

In addition, when using the goto waypoint feature, when you come about 100 feet from the destination, the gps would beep and display "ARRIVING AT DESTINATION!" Then any distance readings or compass bearings would disappear. I know gps is not extremely accurate, but 100 feet?! The packaging claims within 3 meters.

Cobra's gps100 is pure trash. Don't buy it unless it's a gift for someone you really hate.