GPS losing lock in US?
 

Anybody else have the problem?

Or any insight?

Both of my vehicles have GPS-based nav systems installed, and are active
anytime the vehicle is running. Also, the boat has a GPS chartplotter that
is turned on anytime the boat is out of the slip. Any loss of signal would
be instantly reported by any of these devices, and I've not noticed any such
issues over the past weeks.

GPS losing lock in US?
 

"RG" wrote in message
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Anybody else have the problem?

Or any insight?

Both of my vehicles have GPS-based nav systems installed, and are active
anytime the vehicle is running. Also, the boat has a GPS chartplotter
that is turned on anytime the boat is out of the slip. Any loss of signal
would be instantly reported by any of these devices, and I've not noticed
any such issues over the past weeks.


Tom boats in the CT/RI Triangle.

Eisboch

GPS losing lock in US?
 

But it is being reported to the manufacturer's so it's not something
coming out of the blue kind of thing.

I dunno. The Lexus system doesn't make a real big deal out of a lost signal
right away because it has the ability to project an estimated fix from speed
and direction telemetry from the car, but both my Garmins (truck/boat) start
squawking right away if a signal/fix is lost. I don't see any posts about
anomalies over at sci.geo.satellite-nav, and if anybody would be on top of
this sort of thing, it's those guys. Try posting your observations over
there, and see what sort of responses come up. It seems I remember that a
new GPS bird was just launched a couple of weeks ago. Maybe what you're
experiencing is related to bringing the new bird online?

GPS losing lock in US?
 

Tom Francis wrote:
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:21:45 GMT, "RG" wrote:

SNIP

It seems I remember that a
new GPS bird was just launched a couple of weeks ago. Maybe what you're
experiencing is related to bringing the new bird online?

I'm researching this as well. Here's a reference to an article on the
recently launched bird:

http://www.universetoday.com/2006/09...gps-satellite/

Also some discussion on this in the Lowrance areas on the GPS Passion
Forums.

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/t...TOPIC_ID=68646