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 Topic: Couple fighting speed camera fine face £15k bill |
UKHABU
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 Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 5:15 pm Subject: Couple fighting speed camera fine face £15k bill |
If you do not believe that a modern motorbike COULDN'T do 200+mph
then I'm afraid you know nothing re. modern bikes and bikers!
A standard bike straight out of the shop will easily do 180mph
A ... |
| Topic: Gatso UK Boss caught driving at 102mph on a 70mph road |
UKHABU
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 5:16 pm Subject: Gatso UK Boss caught driving at 102mph on a 70mph road |
The road was actually the A14.
He Admitted offence that occured just before 13:00 on 4th January official speed was 102.92 mph.
Fined £300 + £46 costs + £15 victim surcharge.
6 points and 6 mon ... |
| Topic: William Wales causes panic at White House |
UKHABU
Replies: 17
Views: 18461
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:45 pm Subject: USA Immigration Issues |
I fly to the USA a lot both internationally and internally.
A recent Orlando experience:
Late evening 19:30 - 250 tired UK tourists arrive - ONE Immigration Booth operating.
A young child (approx ... |
| Topic: Are UK Speed Cameras Illegal? |
UKHABU
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Forum: Non-Technical Speed Camera Discussions Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:10 pm Subject: Are UK Speed Cameras Illegal? |
Sorry that's not correct.
They can ONLY prosecute if they know the drivers name.
If you do not identify the driver they cannot prosecute other than for the offence of not returning/completing the NI ... |
| Topic: Are UK Speed Cameras Illegal? |
UKHABU
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Forum: Non-Technical Speed Camera Discussions Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:10 pm Subject: Are UK Speed Cameras Illegal? |
Not so.
Whilst you are correct in that if you reply to a NIPS you ARE admitting guilt
because until a reply is received to a NIPS notice the authority's do not have a person's name to charge and the ... |
| Topic: OnCourse Navigator Sweepstakes 2 of 2 |
UKHABU
Replies: 22
Views: 15440
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Forum: Navigon Handhelds Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:14 pm Subject: OnCourse Navigator Sweepstakes 2 of 2 |
I visit USA often but it's a LARGE place and having all the USA loaded onto a PDA is not really practible or required.
I like the ability to define a "corridor" map giving you enough area either si ... |
| Topic: Firmware update for Mio 168 / PiN |
UKHABU
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:22 pm Subject: Firmware update for Mio 168 / PiN |
Well it certainly appears in the Navman Pin I have!
I have contacted Navman about this and they claim not to have heard about it before but I would suggest they are being economical with the truth ... |
| Topic: Speed indication in SmartST V2 |
UKHABU
Replies: 16
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Forum: Navman Handhelds Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:27 pm Subject: Speed indication in SmartST V2 |
| There is a quick(er) way! click the joystick once left and you can then just tap with a finger the GPS Status screen. |
| Topic: New Memory Map and Navman PIN Bundles |
UKHABU
Replies: 0
Views: 2162
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:22 pm Subject: New Memory Map and Navman PIN Bundles |
New Bundles just become available from Memory Map with Navman PIN + MM OS 2004 1:50k maps : North/Central or South areas.
GO HERE |
| Topic: Bollards!!! |
UKHABU
Replies: 4
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:02 pm Subject: Bollards!!! |
Yeah drive a big Land rover like mine and then bollards cease to be an issue! 
Speaking as someone who has a habit of accidently (no really) reversing into them as I can't B**@y seen them i ... |
| Topic: Mitac Mio 168 GPS £184 inc VAT |
UKHABU
Replies: 7
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:30 pm Subject: Mitac Mio 168 GPS £184 inc VAT |
As far as as I know the GPSr is only powered ON when you startup some software and open the COM PORT.
I have a Navman PIN(MIO 168) and until you load either (in my case) SmartST Pro V2 or Memory Ma ... |
| Topic: plugs on gps units |
UKHABU
Replies: 5
Views: 2680
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 3:39 pm Subject: plugs on gps units |
Looking at the plug it's not actually a DIN spec plug.
The nearest I can find in RS is a Binder 719 series plug rated to IP40
See here.
The one I want is like the one on the right but a 5 pole ... |
| Topic: NMEA Altitude Reading Problems |
UKHABU
Replies: 8
Views: 6759
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Forum: Advanced GPS Lounge Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:13 pm Subject: NMEA Altitude Reading Problems |
How products like MemoryMap deal with this is to ignore the height info from the GPSr!
MM has an entirely seperate file for altitude data (after all the actual point you are on the Earth doesn't chan ... |
| Topic: What Processor do I have? |
UKHABU
Replies: 7
Views: 2877
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:49 pm Subject: What Processor do I have? |
I would very much doubt if the processing power was anything near that of a modern PDA.
I often look back at the devices we were using only 10 years ago and think how far we have come - the average ... |
| Topic: What brand and size of SD card?? |
UKHABU
Replies: 64
Views: 27582
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:44 pm Subject: What brand and size of SD card?? |
That's fair enough David I'm not in a "win an argument" mode either.
It's just that there seemed to be consistant advice that SANDISK are crap period - and this is (A) not true and (B) Contrary to ... |
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