+TeamWIF Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 (edited) I am new to this whole world of gps and bought a garmin oregon 450 for Geocaching. I am in Taiwan this week and want to cache, but the GPS is not picking up any satelites. I assume this is b/c I have no Taiwan maps loaded? Where can I get maps cheap for my oregon 450 for Taipei? I am only here for 3 more days, so need something downloadable. Appreciate any insight anybody has!! Thanks! Edited April 19, 2010 by TeamWIF Quote Link to comment
+Triple Crown Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 I am new to this whole world of gps and bought a garmin oregon 450 for Geocaching. I am in Taiwan this week and want to cache, but the GPS is not picking up any satelites. I assume this is b/c I have no Taiwan maps loaded? Where can I get maps cheap for my oregon 450 for Taipei? I am only here for 3 more days, so need something downloadable. Appreciate any insight anybody has!! Thanks! You should still get satellites. Get free maps here. Linky Quote Link to comment
+TeamWIF Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 Thank you for the link ... it looks great! I let the GPSr go for 1/2 hour and it finally found 2 satellites, but couldn't find the all necessary 3rd one! Will try again tonight ... any idea if it is my unit or something else? Quote Link to comment
+cterres Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 If your Oregon isn't broken, maybe it's a jammer near your location. Try a different position or see if a second gps device (mobile phone maybe?) can get a better signal. Your location had nothing to do with maps on your device. So if you wait maybe 15 minutes with a good sight to the sky around you should find more signals or your device is damaged. When was the last time it worked? Quote Link to comment
snowfleurys Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 If you changed location by a considerable distance, which you probably did going to Taiwan, the GPSr needs to reacquire almanac data from the satelites. This could take 30-60 minutes. On the older units you could speed this up by giving your approximate location - just checked on my OR300, but did not find a way to do that on it. Also noticed two of the strength bars were green border with white fill which I do not recall seeing before. BTW, when you return you will have to reacquire the almanac. Quote Link to comment
+TeamWIF Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 (edited) Tried again tonight ... it took 10mins for it to find 5 satellites ... looks like it needs some time to 'learn' the satellites in the area ... thank you to all of you for the posts - you were bang on ... PATIENCE is the best virtue!! Edited April 19, 2010 by TeamWIF Quote Link to comment
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