One for those that are using a GPS Mouse

Hello Stephen,

I use a BU-353 mouse antenna and the fix time is virtually instant.


Jack

Jack,
are you using windows vista?......, as I have a BU-353 on order.
Fred

It depends on the chipset that is in it.

A SIRFIII is by far the best.

My Globalsat BT338 is very quick to start up even inside the house Has a SIRFIII in it
IS far better than the HAICOM USB mouse I also have. It drops out going under an overpass on the highway

I don't use a GPS at all,

I have a 10" eee PC - running Windows XP ($580.00)
Ozi-Explorer
BU-353 antenna $95.00

I investigated this to the enth degree and thought this combination was far better value than Hema's offering.

Not only do I have a much bigger screen to look at 10" not 4"? (very important) - I have a fully functional PC as well!

I have it mounted between the 2 front seat in my Landcuiser - perfect.

Regards
Jack

stephen,
where do you have your mouse situated, that could give considerable effect on the warm up (picking up of satellite's) phase.

i haven't got one yet (on order), but had complications with the old mans GPS on his boat. it was sitting just down in front of the fly bridge, and took a long time to warm up, but moved it ontop of the flybridge away from interference and.... beautiful, straight away, with more accurate plotting as well, which is good when you are on auto pilot!!!

i have a GU with snorkel, and when i fit it, it will go ontop of the snorkel, away from everything

Whilst you may have your receiver plugged in when you start the computer you should understand that it is a dumb animal and whilst it will turn on and will look for satellites it takes till your software gets going to show them.
Quite often it is the sioftware that takes the time initially and not the mouse.
I use Copilot on my netbook and it looks for GPS on startup and can take a little while to find it ( Its a bluetooth BT338). Once it finds it no dropouts all day under bridges etc.
The only time i have had it dropout was when i was in the lower floors of a 5 story carpark.

Another thing is always plug it into the same USB port as the computer remembers where it was and if you put it in a different port it has to reinitiallise it again.
A good reason for using a Bluetooth ves as this also works with TOM TOM on my Nokia phone.

I am glad to say that my BU-353 arrived in the mail today.... not only that, it works. I had it up and running within a couple of minutes once I had the correct vista driver installed. It works a treat with OziExplorer and even works with the Gpsinfo software that came with it (once I trolled through the manual (on CD) to change a setting in device manager. The tracking of sats was almost instant once I started NMEA. All I need now is to take it on a test drive to ensure the track is being recorded.
Then all I'll need is a new battery for my Magellan Explorist 500, and I'll be happy.
Fred B