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Re: About GPS again
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2013 Jun 01, 09:04 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2013 Jun 01, 09:04 -0700
Don't forget that it's a challenge for your car GPS to receive its
signals -- metal roof, glass windshield, etc, etc. So it's
possible that it was always on the edge for receiving signals and
either age or some shift in your car's environment (could be as
subtle as changing the station you listen to) had shifted.
I know several people who use their Garmin 76s to do both road and nautical navigation and love the units (except for the 76's bulk). If I recollect correctly, the "x" suffix on the 76 means that it has an extra-sensitive receiver.
Funny story from a friend who uses his 76 for both purposes. He once was meeting someone for dinner at a waterfront restaurant at the end of a long pier. He'd been to the restaurant many times, had forgotten to look up its street address before he set out. "Darn," he thought, "too late to go back and look up the address." Then he pulled up the nautical chart for the area on his 76 and discovered there was a buoy right off the end of the pier. So he set that as his "destination" As he rolled up the pier towards the restaurant's parking area, the last command the Garmin gave was "slight right turn off the pier, your destination is straight ahead."
I know several people who use their Garmin 76s to do both road and nautical navigation and love the units (except for the 76's bulk). If I recollect correctly, the "x" suffix on the 76 means that it has an extra-sensitive receiver.
Funny story from a friend who uses his 76 for both purposes. He once was meeting someone for dinner at a waterfront restaurant at the end of a long pier. He'd been to the restaurant many times, had forgotten to look up its street address before he set out. "Darn," he thought, "too late to go back and look up the address." Then he pulled up the nautical chart for the area on his 76 and discovered there was a buoy right off the end of the pier. So he set that as his "destination" As he rolled up the pier towards the restaurant's parking area, the last command the Garmin gave was "slight right turn off the pier, your destination is straight ahead."
On 5/31/2013 11:29 AM, Bill B wrote:
On 5/31/2013 2:01 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > ...but the peak of the average sunspot number will almost certainly occur > this year, and it shouldn't be much different from what it is right now. > It may be below the spike that occurred over a year ago. At the time I reported losing signal on my Garmin road unit on the way to and from St. Joseph, Michigan and attributed it to the spike. I was wrong. In later testing it is an issue with the car radio and that unit. (My radio is always on/FM.) Lose signal, turn radio off, signal back in a second. Tried relocating the unit on the windshield (windshield mounting legal in Indiana) with minor success. Also experimented with my 11-year-old nautical Garmin (which I used on the road with waypoints for almost 10 years) with zero problems. As the road Garmin started exhibiting this behavior a year or so ago and the older nautical Garmin has no problems, I suspect it is an issue with the road Garmin rather than the radio. Live and learn--hopefully! Bill B
