Garmin issue

Butts · Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 10:24 am Post subject: Garmin issue

Went scouting yesterday and wanted to mark a location. Took forever (15 min) to get a lock on the satelites. Knew something was fishy as it said the altitude was 5400' when I live at 5400' and driving hiking to this location is all up. Hiking back through I booted it up again and this time the altitude was at 8,900'. What gives, anybody know? Crying or Very sad

ribo451 · Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 1:41 pm Post subject:

I don't know. Mine does that from time to time as well. It seems worse if it's been a long time since I used it last.

Whenever I make a waypoint I always do a search for the nearest waypoint to make sure it saved it correctly. I saved one once and did a search for it and it said I was 19 miles from the waypoint I had just made.

I have a had a couple problems but overall it they seem to work well enough. I attribute the problems to Russian spy satellites.

Butts · Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 4:40 pm Post subject:

Yeah Ruesski's character0110

It has been half a year since I used it last. Perhaps
Same questions came up.... Are you in doors? Are you hundreds of miles away from home? Later I will put the coordinates on a topo and see if they are off as well.

RosinBag · Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject:

You should also get any current updates from Garmin as there are usually 2 or 3 a year that fix any problems that have come up.

I would guess it took a while because it will start searching for satellites in the last known location. So if you have moved a great distance it will take much longer.

Malloy805 · Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject:

After move of over 600 miles you have to re calibrate the instrument.