Anyone Get Very Strange Gps Readings Today?

[+JBJ Puzzle Solvers]

First of all, I have been having some trouble transfering topo maps with my Merigold lately. So, I dont know if the problem I had today could be related to that or not, but here is what happened:

 

We were hunting in a remote area and the gps was getting epe readings of approximately 20 to 120 feet (depending on the tree canopy) and the map was tracking fairly closely to the road that we were driving. Then all of a sudden, it shot our position from where we were actually located (Western Washington) to the northern part of the Canadian Northwest Territories. And, as if that was not bad enough, it showed that we were traveling at over 500 mph while standing still and it then proceeded to create two of its own waypoints (I know that I did not create them because of the names and descriptions).

 

Now, all of this, except the waypoint creation, I could understand happening for a brief amount of time IF the gps lost reception, got some eroneous errors or something else very strange happened. But I would expect it to be a VERY short amount of time and it to return to normal soon after. This was not the case. This thing stayed that way for about 20 minutes and did not correct itself until I re-initialized it.

 

I really dont know what to think about this except to ask if anyone else had very odd readings today. If it was just my unit, I am starting to lose faith in Magellan fast. Any thoughts?

 

Thanks.

[+embra]

There are periodic reports on the boards here of these apparent transports. I don't think they are limited to one brand. Fortunately, they are rare occurences, and powering off/back on (maybe with a re-initialization) seems to get things back to normal.

[Major Catastrophe]

I think maybe you need one of THESE.

[+JBJ Puzzle Solvers]

I think that's it...exactly what I need. Maybe the only thing that would possibly get this merigold to work...having all kinds of problems with it.

 

Later...

[Neo_Geo]

See Standing Still At 1,000 M.P.H.!!! The record so far is 4,302 M.P.H. by Dr. Boggis. Anybody have a verifiable faster time than that?

 

Prabably caused by MULTIPATH ERRORS.

 

[+jacques0]

I'm not sure if this applies, but while geocacheing with a buddy last Saturday his gps was doing something similar (although not as extreme: more in the 50-100 mile range). There recently have been several X-Class (the big ones) solar flares from Sunspot 798 on the Sun's surface, and I've received several notifications recently about possible Auroras in the N. latitudes. Although it's now (just recently) disappearing, I know that some communications have been affected, and perhaps the flares had an effect upon gps signals, as well. Here is a link to a website mentioning the flares and if you look over the archives from recent days you'll begin to get a better feel for how it may have affected things.

 

http://www.spaceweather.com/

 

This link gives an excellent account of recent high solar activity:

 

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/15...minexplodes.htm

[HugoOne]

Geomagnetic storms forcasts

 

http://solar.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

[+Sputnik 57]

See Standing Still At 1,000 M.P.H.!!! The record so far is 4,302 M.P.H. by Dr. Boggis.  Anybody  have a verifiable faster time than that?

Markwell is a close second at 4,267 mph!!. More on this phenomenon in that thread and this one.

[flir67]

yesterday while driving with my gps I noticed satellites 24,26 in my magellan 600 were constantly yellow and never got a lock which was odd, as this never happened.

[flir67]

yesterday while driving with my gps I noticed satellites 24,26 in my magellan 600 were constantly yellow and never got a lock which was odd, as this never happened before

Edited September 20, 2005 by flir67

[+Old Sailor]

HMMMMMMMM..........Time Travel Machine?

[+LarryGC]

Oh wow, what fluke! I had that too one day, went from 700something to 900something an hour and was flying somewhere north of here. Thought it went insane and turned it off. Worked fine after that

[Neo_Geo]

See Standing Still At 1,000 M.P.H.!!! The record so far is 4,302 M.P.H. by Dr. Boggis.  Anybody  have a verifiable faster time than that?

Markwell is a close second at 4,267 mph!!. More on this phenomenon in that thread and this one.

In that same thread, another user POSTED A MESSAGE showing his tracklog with a leg length of 1400 miles in a second, which calculates to a whopping 5 MILLION miles per hour!

 

I wonder what his max speed actually registered on his GPSr...

 

I think I'll poke through a few of my old logs and see if I can find anything similar there.