I have been caching since 2012 and would like to get a more stable unit. My Etrex 20 is okay but it is nearly useless within 20 feet of GZ. The other day I was looking for the second part of a puzzle cache and I followed the pointer past a tree at 17 ft from target. It lead me in a circle back to my tracks in the snow as I passed the same tree. This time the 20 showed 3 ft from GZ so I poked around and found the container in a hole under one of the roots. When I returned the bottle and stood up
Well let's back up, then. Both the original L1, the newer L2, and the most recent L5 band are available to the public, if that's what you're talking about. Several GPS chip manufacturers started to work on L5 for automotive and phone use back in 2018. L5 frequency reception is available for GPS, Galileo, BeiDou and a couple of other systems. They hadn't originally scheduled deployment until sometime in 2021, but it's here now - started with the GPSII-F launches. There's at least a dozen of