GPS reception today

Brad

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Jul 21, 2008, 10:22:21 PM7/21/08

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I got all my cables today to hook the GPS and the PDA up.
But...........this evening, here in WA state I have not been able to
get a good lock on any satellites.

Anyone else have any problems with their GPS today?

Just curious.

Brad

Wayne Paul

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Jul 21, 2008, 10:36:15 PM7/21/08

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Brad,

I'm in Idaho about 450 mile from you. I just checked my GPS and am getting
a solid lock on six satellites.

Wayne
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dlh...@charter.net

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Jul 21, 2008, 10:48:03 PM7/21/08

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Are you indoors? Take it outside and check. The structure of a
building really limits GPS reception.

Eric Greenwell

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Jul 21, 2008, 10:57:12 PM7/21/08

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dlh...@charter.net wrote:
> On Jul 21, 9:22 pm, Brad <apispi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I got all my cables today to hook the GPS and the PDA up.
>> But...........this evening, here in WA state I have not been able to
>> get a good lock on any satellites.
>>
>> Anyone else have any problems with their GPS today?

My TomTom is sitting on my desk beside the monitor, and not having any
problems.

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Brad

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Jul 22, 2008, 12:10:51 AM7/22/08

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Well, both GPS's of mine a few hours ago could not get a lock, now
they work fine.
Must have been those black helicopters flying over the house.....yeah,
that's it!

Thanks!

Brad

Martin Gregorie

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Jul 22, 2008, 5:29:32 AM7/22/08

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:22:21 -0700, Brad wrote:

> Anyone else have any problems with their GPS today?
>

I had a couple of messages about altitude glitches (Garmin GPS II+ in
the UK), but as they just flashed on and off again and the other
information remained stable I ignored it. The log file was accepted
by the BGA league table system without complaint and was viewable with
EWView.

HTH

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Bob Kuykendall

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Jul 22, 2008, 10:42:11 AM7/22/08

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There was a GPS reception yesterday and I wasn't invited? Shucks, and
I had my tuxedo pressed and ready. Isn't it Ian Strachan's job to give
us advance notice of these things?

But seriously, I had eight or ten birds today and yesterday, no
blackout here.

Bob K.

Dan

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Jul 22, 2008, 3:49:55 PM7/22/08

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You can see where interuptions in GPS are planned at
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/gpsnotices/GPS_Interference.pdf

which is a subset of
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/gpsnotices/default.htm

Dan

bagmaker

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Jul 22, 2008, 5:43:07 PM7/22/08

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I had a blackhawk rattle over my car at about 1500ft a few months ago,
mobile dropped out, Tom Tom dropped out for a considerable time each
side of him.

Mebbe they were testing a new UAV in your area.

Bagger (big fan of X-files)

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