I’ve been playing with the Garmin 660T that I got for Christmas, and have been very impressed.

Initially, I was annoyed to find that the unit didn’t have the integral FM transmitter, but £6 later and a trip to Amazon gets me a FM transmitter that plugs into the headphone socket and works a treat.

The FM Traffic signal is a bit dodgy, and doesn’t work very well, as a recent trip to Reading showed, but thats why I have the Trafficmaster unit as backup.  I got a signal for part of the way, but not for the most part.

I’ve tried uploading the SMC Contours (http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm), but these don’t seem to work on this unit, though they work well on Dad’s Nuvi 350 unit.

However, I have been playing with making Garmin TourGuide files.  I found a great guide on the Zumo Forums (http://www.zumoforums.com/index.php?topic=1566.0), but have found that the whole process is made much simpler by using a piece of software called GeePeeEx Editor, which only costs about £8 to register (http://geepeeex.googlepages.com/downloadlinks).

This has proved to be fun, and I have already created Tourguide files for the WWT Reserves, and also for BBOWT reserves, and I hope to do some more soon, and get them listed to my website, now that I have moved to my own hosting account.