[gps-talkusers] Re: 000 miles of inaccuracy?
- From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco@xxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:08:02 -0700
I thought it took at least 3 satellites to get a fix at all.
Andy
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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Chao
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 5:17 PM
To: Gps List
Subject: [gps-talkusers] 000 miles of inaccuracy?
Dear GPS Listserv,
Earlier today, I was testing out a manual route at my high school
campus. I was able to get a fix for most of the areas that I needed,
but I ran into a problem, when I marked my last waypoint, I couldn't get
a fixed, then I waited, I got a fix, but a poor fix with 1 satellite.
I went ahead and marked it, since it was a test. After I finished
marking the waypoints, I found that when I arrived at my final waypoint,
which was the location I only received 1 satellite, it said "arrived
near destination," but when I check the distance from my current
position to the destination, with the letter d, it said destination 12
o'clock 7000 miles. I am not sure if that has something to do with me
not receiving a fix, then receiving a terrible fix, then me still
continuing to mark the waypoint.
I am sure it has nothing to do with the way I marked the points, as I
have done this before successfully.
I hope that someone out there is able to answer to why I received an
inaccuracy ready of over 7000 miles, if you are wanting to examine my
manual route, please feel free to notify me, I will be delighted to
share the manual route--especially if it will bring us one step closer
to exactly what happened.
Kevin
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