On Oct 5, 8:19*am, Gene wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:41:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/151282

Now can you really trust GPS to help navigate channels etc?

Yeah, here's another nut-case that got some publicity for about the
same thing....http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/classifie...er-follows-gps...

FWIW.... *I have a Garmin 265WT. I started having issues with it not
acquiring satellites as quickly as it did when new and then, finally,
both losing acquisition and showing me driving 100 feet off of the
road. This was in strong contrast to how it originally worked, when
new, as it was incredibly accurate.

To make a long story short, a call to Garmin led to the information
that one needs to save ones user waypoints and other valuable
information and do a complete reset of the GPS, including reloading
the OS. After accomplishing this task the GPS again acted as it did
just out of the box....

Why? Dunno exactly, but it has something to do with the saving of
inaccurate satellite information, eventually resulting in corruption.

Seems like a bad design/idea....
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I suppose that can happen when you put too much faith in machine and
toss common sense.