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Re: About GPS again
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 May 31, 14:24 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 May 31, 14:24 -0400
On 5/31/2013 2:01 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > ...but the peak of the average sunspot number will almost certainly occur > this year, and it shouldn't be much different from what it is right now. > It may be below the spike that occurred over a year ago. At the time I reported losing signal on my Garmin road unit on the way to and from St. Joseph, Michigan and attributed it to the spike. I was wrong. In later testing it is an issue with the car radio and that unit. (My radio is always on/FM.) Lose signal, turn radio off, signal back in a second. Tried relocating the unit on the windshield (windshield mounting legal in Indiana) with minor success. Also experimented with my 11-year-old nautical Garmin (which I used on the road with waypoints for almost 10 years) with zero problems. As the road Garmin started exhibiting this behavior a year or so ago and the older nautical Garmin has no problems, I suspect it is an issue with the road Garmin rather than the radio. Live and learn--hopefully! Bill B