How/Why is GPS speed control supposedly better? I love paddlewheel.

[Broke Pilot]

Yea... I feel dumb. Never would have guessed it! Lol

[sandm]

my 02 having had both...
paddlewheel was not consistent in keeping a speed but I really think that was more due to the cable throttle and how it was hooked in than the actual software. it did what it was supposed to do but needed some tinkering every now and again.
gps was on a drive by wire boat. I found it to be trouble free. I did use this mainly on rivers and I did have to adjust it .4 whether i was going up or downstream but that wasn't a big deal as it was quite a ways to surf up and down the river. on the few lakes I used it on it was set and forget..

I had xm on a boat for a spell and it had several spots where it would lose signal at the lake above Boise. gps never did. never experienced any signal loss due to mountains or trees but I assumed that was due to xm pointing at 1 satellite and gps triangulating 3.

if I was primarily river I would probably lean toward paddlewheel but where we are now I would want gps.