GPS is wacky
I have been getting some weird directions from my Garmin Gps since we have been in Canada and Alaska. Today it took me to the back woods and when I got turned around and found my way to a campground ...
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DiskDoctr wrote:WHAT?
---snip---Your gps settings should include a zipcode setting, which will adjust for declination. Also look for your satellite info display. It will show the number and signal quality of birds you're connecting to.
In Alaska the angles to geosynchronous (think "equator") satellites are awfully close to the southern horizon.
- So the GPS has a place you enter your Zipcode so it can locate itself? That's rather novel. I would have thought a GPS could tell you what Zip-code you were in, not the other way around.
- What Declination? We're not setting up a polar arc antenna
- Take a look at the GPS constellation. It is Asynchronous, not geosynchronous, and arguably not even that. Either way, not one of the GPS satellites in any of the three constellations out there are Geosynchronous.
