Weird sceince? see post 32354 Quirky GPS
Submitted: Saturday, Apr 01, 2006 at 07:22
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Willem
This morning I had to do another run out to the west. It was just on dawn and there were some scattered clouds about.
I did as MikeDiD suggested and was stationary while I switched the GPS on. After 5 minutes there was no response on the satellite screen and so I drove off. After 20 minutes still nothing.
I suppose I got a bit cranky with the thing, yanked it out of its cradle, turned it upside down fitted it back into the cradle and said "See, if you work now you bastard.!"
And blow me down!!! within 3 minutes the GPS picked up 4 satellites.
Can anyone explain this?
Reply By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Saturday, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:05
Saturday, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:05
So it's really cold for a cold start in
Peterborough at the moment Bro? Tell me how are the internal batteries in the GPS at the moment? I found
mine was always better at starting when the batteries were able to keep some information such as the last place it was used but took ages for a cold start with DEAD batteries.
Now of course it is somebody elses problem while I decide how to spend the insurance payout on it as I have the Axim if I need to find my way
home or get away.
Am recovering from my heavy schedule in
Melbourne and Mt Gambier since then.
Timboon today.
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