garmin stress

paulb79

is it just me or is anyone else having problems connecting to satilites normally its fine but today no joy , had to run without it . my watch is a forerunner 405cx

beeduybe

Used my 405 today without any problems

thirstywork2

No bother with mine today and wouldn't stress me if it didn't work

rom

I find that if I turn it on before I go out the door I have problems so now I turn it on where I start my run and wait. I presume that it will try to lock on sat A but when I move to where I can only see sat B it gets messed up so I find it works best to turn it on standing still.

Krusty_Clown

Sometimes I find it a b1tch to get a satellite lock. In these instances, I find it best to just turn off the GPS and turn it back on again and it rectifies itself pretty quick.

DogSlySmile

I go out on to the balcony before I turn mine on and leave it there while I'm getting changed. Never have any problems with it locking on to the satellite. No fuss, no muss.

rom

I find that facing south east gives the best results. Definatly not north facing.

wrstan

rom wrote: »

I find that facing south east gives the best results. Definatly not north facing.

What do you do if there's a big mother of a tree in your way?
Seriously though, does the direction you're facing make a material difference?

I've heard of someone leaving their garmin out in their front garden to pick up a signal while they get changed, then coming out and finding it gone - probably a magpie! Anyway I usually put mine now just inside the car windscreen while I'm getting changed and that usually works. :cool:

Krusty_Clown

rom wrote: »

I find that facing south east gives the best results. Definatly not north facing.

I was going to say that this doesn't make a lot of sense, but looking at the orbital paths of the GPS satellites, they do seem to be predominantly to the South. In theory though, it shouldn't make any difference what direction the watch (or your body) is pointed, as the satellites transmit using radio signals, so these should be received whatever direction you happen to be facing.

rom

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

I was going to say that this doesn't make a lot of sense, but looking at the orbital paths of the GPS satellites, they do seem to be predominantly to the South. In theory though, it shouldn't make any difference what direction the watch (or your body) is pointed, as the satellites transmit using radio signals, so these should be received whatever direction you happen to be facing.

My point is that if you stand with your back to a building facing south or south/east then you get much better results than if you came out of your house and stayed there with your back to the building and you facing north or north/west.

Not the same but a good guide is that astra/eurobird is at 28.2 and that is the direction that all the sky dishes are pointed. basically at Paris.

If gps over the Atlantic was super then something like Air France would not have taken so long. This is just a guess based on where all the tv ones are. I googled but could not get a list of the GPS ones.

Krusty_Clown

rom wrote: »

I googled but could not get a list of the GPS ones.

My previous post has a link.

plodder

There's about 30 GPS satellites whizzing all over the place. It can happen that you get an unusual alignment, but you couldn't say it's always like that, since they are constantly moving. The image is from the GPS article on wikipedia.

rom

plodder wrote: »

There's about 30 GPS satellites whizzing all over the place. It can happen that you get an unusual alignment, but you couldn't say it's always like that, since they are constantly moving. The image is from the GPS article on wikipedia.

I like this one more but seriously you can see what gps sats are near you based on your IP address which is nice.
http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi/Satellites/12?