+kayakanimal Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I FINALLY get a day off from work tomorrow. (I am in central Florida). Finally...some time to go caching. I wonder how good my GPS will work in a hurricane? Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Should not be any problem, unless you are in a downpour and the windshield has a constant heavysheet of water on it. Also your wipers may interfer somewhat, but rain, clouds, snow and the like in and of themselves are not a problem. The GPS frequency signal was selected because it travels through such conditions almost totally unaffected. Quote Link to comment
+kayakanimal Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 Should not be any problem, unless you are in a downpour and the windshield has a constant heavysheet of water on it. Also your wipers may interfer somewhat, but rain, clouds, snow and the like in and of themselves are not a problem. The GPS frequency signal was selected because it travels through such conditions almost totally unaffected. Sorry...my dry sense of humor. I have used mine in MANY rain showers (living in FL). Was TRYING to be funny. Guess it didn't work. Kayakanimal Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Sorry not to pick up the humor. I took it as a serious question because many people seem to think clouds and rain are a problem, as well as the fact that I've gone caching in adverse conditions before and find it fun. I heard this huricane ain't so bad. Course I guess Florida don't have a lot of elevation so bad is relative to where you are. Quote Link to comment
+Desert_Warrior Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 It might be better if you use the altimiter in barometric pressure mode instead of altitude mode that day! Quote Link to comment
+kayakanimal Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 Sorry not to pick up the humor. I took it as a serious question because many people seem to think clouds and rain are a problem, as well as the fact that I've gone caching in adverse conditions before and find it fun. I heard this huricane ain't so bad. Course I guess Florida don't have a lot of elevation so bad is relative to where you are. We are waiting for Charley (currently 105mph and climbing) not Bonnie (55mph). Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 (edited) Oh, yeah, there's two of them isn't there. Like the previous poster said, It'd be fun to watch a graphing barometer about now. Keep your topknot when she hits! Movement 17mph to NW Edited August 12, 2004 by EraSeek Quote Link to comment
+Searching_ut Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 This is a situation in which I don't think an eTrex or geko would be a good choice. The wind might just blow you away. If you have a big bulky heavy unit like the meridian, or a 76 you may have a sporting chance of finding a few. Those units are big and heavy enough that not even a hurricane should be able to blow you off course Good luck, and try not to get too wet Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 ..many people seem to think clouds and rain are a problem, as well as the fact that I've gone caching in adverse conditions before and find it fun... I'm one of those people. But I've only got one day of caching in heavy fog to go on. Now that I've moved it's going to be awhile before I can see if that was a fluke to have my GPS off 50' or so on every cache or if it was the fog. Normal is 5-20'. Snow on the other hand hasn't made a difference at all. Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 ..many people seem to think clouds and rain are a problem, as well as the fact that I've gone caching in adverse conditions before and find it fun... I'm one of those people. But I've only got one day of caching in heavy fog to go on. Now that I've moved it's going to be awhile before I can see if that was a fluke to have my GPS off 50' or so on every cache or if it was the fog. Normal is 5-20'. Snow on the other hand hasn't made a difference at all. Not the fog. Here's your answer renegade: http://www.gpsinformation.net/gpsclouds.htm Besides, marine stores sell a lot of units just for that purpose. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Interesting reading. There is such a thing as a bad GPS/caching day and it's possible it coincided with my heavy fog day. It does make sence to have the parameters for operations to work in weather for usability reasons (we all get weather and more of it in Portland and Seattle). Of course you know dang well I'm going to pay careful attention next time I'm in heavy fog! Quote Link to comment
+NightPilot Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 I use a GPS for navigation while flying in clouds, fog, rain, and whatever else comes along, and it works fine. It even works through the rotor blades rotating above. It takes a LOT of rain to stop the GPS signals - basically it has to be solid water. Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Here's what you want to look at http://solar.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html along with the geometry of the satellite constelation that you are receiving, and any multi-pathing. These are the things that will give you a bad fix. Quote Link to comment
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