+currykev Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 I know that on occasions it's difficult to get a lock,but I recently happened upon a wood of YEW trees and had the worst reception in over 2 years of caching. Are these tree-devils renowned for DNF's? ...and what is your gps signal nightmare. Quote
+The Blorenges Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 As yews were once planted to protect an area (often a pagan site) from malevolent spirits, no doubt the trees interpret modern day satellite signals as evil influences from the skies and they're fighting back. MrsB Quote
+The Mighty Shark Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 As yews were once planted to protect an area (often a pagan site) from malevolent spirits, no doubt the trees interpret modern day satellite signals as evil influences from the skies and they're fighting back. MrsB Yew might be right there MrsB ........... Sorry I just had to say it Yew know Quote
Edgemaster Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 I've had terrible lock before on open ground, was a very bad constellation that day... Quote
NickPick Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 (edited) these things were sent to taxus I thought promoting your own cache was not allowed here! I've also had a complete loss of satellites even in a completely open field. I switched off and on the ertrex and it eventually did a full re-initialisation and found a full constellation. somehow it must have thought I'd moved around the world. Edited September 1, 2008 by NickPick Quote
+Pharisee Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 I've also had a complete loss of satellites even in a completely open field. I switched off and on the ertrex and it eventually did a full re-initialisation and found a full constellation. somehow it must have thought I'd moved around the world. The first time I used my 60CSx in London, I noticed a problem with it. When it lost satellite reception for any reason, like a short underground tube journey (it wasn't turned off during the journey), it wouldn't re-establish satellite contact again when it had a good view of the sky. It just stayed on the 'acquiring satellites' page with no satellites showing. The answer was to turn it off and back on again when it found all the available satellites almost immediately. I queried this with Garmin and they said that the problem was 'known about' and had been fixed in the latest firmware update. I downloaded the latest updates and the problem never re-occurred. Quote
+Alibags Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 these things were sent to taxus I thought promoting your own cache was not allowed here! That was by way of a taxanomic (no pun intended) pun (pun intended) Quote
+rutson Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 /me sits back and waits for a certain male oddly coloured fruit to correct Ali's speeling Quote
+Alibags Posted September 2, 2008 Posted September 2, 2008 moi speeling is fyne, itz mie tiping thas rubich! Quote
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