Erroneous Track Info

[+Rebel]

Around 1300 Eastern today my Map 330 lost all satellite info. It just couldn't seem to lock on to any. Watching the satellite acquisition screen I saw that it would find one, drop it, find another, and so on.

 

For about 3 hours.

 

In the meantime, I turned it off, on, reinitialized, etc. It's got the latest Magellan base map software, WAAS, etc.

 

At about 1800 it finally locked onto enough satellites to get a fix. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the track info. According to my GPSr, I made a bee line from Atlanta to a location about 50 miles off the coast of Uruguay.

 

Too weird!

 

Anyone else run into something like this?

[+park2]

Once yesterday at about 14h00 MDT and once today at about 09h30 MDT my Vista lost all sats for about 10 minutes each time even though I was in wide open and flat rural prairie.

 

Mighta happened more but those were two times I needed it and it wasn't there

 

What worried me more was how long it took me to figure out what direction I needed to turn, I rely on the GPS too much, obviously.

[+park2]

Once yesterday at about 14h00 MDT and once today at about 09h30 MDT my Vista lost all sats for about 10 minutes each time even though I was in wide open and flat rural prairie.

 

Mighta happened more but those were two times I needed it and it wasn't there

 

What worried me more was how long it took me to figure out what direction I needed to turn, I rely on the GPS too much, obviously.

[MajBach]

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Originally posted by Da Rebel:

Around 1300 Eastern today my Map 330 lost all satellite info. It just couldn't seem to lock on to any. Watching the satellite acquisition screen I saw that it would find one, drop it, find another, and so on.

 

Anyone else run into something like this?

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This has happened to me plenty of times. Usually, the explaination can be found

here or here.

 

MajBach

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