WAAS on Oregon?

[Gimbal1]

I’m having trouble getting WAAS (or EGNOS in my case) to work with my Oregon. In perfect conditions I have been able to get three “D” but that’s it, if I wait even longer they disappear again.

 

The GPS seems to listen to the EGNOS satellite for about 5 minutes (without ever turning green) and the drops it and starts searching for another. Is this normal?

 

As you can se on the screen dump the conditions couldn’t be much better.

 

[+trainlove]

It might be the way that the Colorado is reporting the WAAS reception.

There are 3 kinds of WAAS signals:

Fast,

Long,

and Iono.

 

On a Magellan you need to get the Iono before the position screen will say WAAS Averaging. But you will get some waas corrections if you only get the Fast and Long.

 

If you lose site of the WAAS satellite for even a second you will lose the Fast correction and it will take a few seconds to pick that up again. The Long correctons seem to last even if you turn your GPSr off and on again and do not even have a position fix.

[+g-o-cashers]

Many people have reported difficultly getting WAAS to work properly on the Oregon. Either it takes a very long time to acquire or it never acquires. The issue has been reported to Garmin and they seem to be aware of it -- although another call to tech support never hurts!

 

GO$Rs

[+Klemmer]

Please be aware that EGNOS is still under test, and is not fully operational. That could be one reason for seeing some problems:

http://www.egnos-pro.esa.int/index.html

[Gimbal1]

Good to know that I’m not the only one with problems in this area. Hopefully it can be fixed in a software upgrade.

 

As I understand it Egnos is operational for “non-safety of life services” since 2005.