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Here is the link that one or two of you showed interest in. SMC

Here is the link that one or two of you showed interest in. SMC

Steady on Mick Simple, I'll fetch some lables with me and felt tip pens. Write your own!!!! Gaza

Last weekend I was up in the Yorkshire Dales (Austwick) and had 1+- meter accuracy on Sat and Sun and D’s galore. Ain’t WASS brilliant.

I'd like one too.

Forget it I found it.....

I’m sure that somewhere on this forum I’ve seen a topic on exporting the icons in gsak over to Memory-Map so the geocache symbols display. Anyone point me in the right direction please… Tried the search feature in the forum to no avail!

Not many Geocacher’s out and about today, wonder if you are taking advantage of the good weather and are all having BBQ’s!

Sorry about the battery life I got that wrong so my better half says, it’s more like 3 to 4 days including driving…………. It’s my fault again! But I do get good mileage out of those batteries though…

Probably answered my own question that I posted at the beginning but I thought I would share this info with you and would welcome your comments on this finding; I have a eTrex Legend C (colour), I use NiMh 2300 from Maplins which last about 5 full days of walking/caching at 8 hours per day and that’s with WAAS switched on! I must admit that I hadn’t got a clue up until the past few days what WAAS was. Reading your comments last night got me to thinking! Lets try an experiment. So to day I took a reading with the GPS with WAAS enabled, it was giving an EPE of 8m, with WAAS enabled it gave an EPE of 4m! With WAAS enabled I have got readings from 3 satellites these are 33, 37 and 44 these differ from time to time and the area I’m in. Having looked into it further it seems that at some point the GPS must have downloaded the required almanac for the WAAS to work! See this link and see what you think………… http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/dgps.htm#waas I think that after my experiment today I think that I’ll leave my WAAS enabled it don’t make any difference to the drain on the batteries I use and I all ways carry with me at least 2 extra pairs for the GPS. P.S. Without getting my destruction book out of the attic what do the D’s mean on satellite acquiring screen mean?

By having it enabled does it degrigate the accuracy of the GPS in the UK.

Does anyone have WAAS enabled on their GPS. Just been to a site and saw this; http://gpsinformation.net/waasgps.htm “This does NOT mean that you can be in England, Mexico, Canada or any other location very distant from the WAAS correction stations and expect the USA WAAS corrections to be useful even if you can receive the WAAS satellites. In fact, if you are in Europe, Africa, Australia or anywhere more than perhaps 500 miles away from the shores of the USA, the use of WAAS signals may well REDUCE the accuracy of your GPS fixes. Europe's EGNOS system (compatible with WAAS but for operation in Europe) is in the test phase now and is transmitting a "do not use" flag. Magellan GPS receivers ignore this flag and use the signal anyway (for what it is worth), but Garmin receivers honor the flag's intent and will not use the EGNOS data as long as the "do not use" flag is set.” I’m intrigued that it mentions that if you have this set it can make a difference to the accuracy of the receiver! Has anyone encountered this problem?