Bad GPS readings?

[+currykev]

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.

[+The Blorenges]

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

[+The Mighty Shark]

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

[Edgemaster]

I've had terrible lock before on open ground, was a very bad constellation that day...

[+Alibags]

these things were sent to taxus

[NickPick]

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

[+Pharisee]

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.

[+Alibags]

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)

[+rutson]

/me sits back and waits for a certain male oddly coloured fruit to correct Ali's speeling

[+Alibags]

moi speeling is fyne, itz mie tiping thas rubich!