[OSM-talk] Quality of Sirf star 3 tracks disappointing...

[Barnett, Phillip]

Yep, D's in the bars mean you're picking up WAAS/EGNOS signals from those satellites.
Phillip


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org on behalf of Jon Stockill
Sent: Mon 7/10/2006 11:15 PM
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of Sirf star 3 tracks disappointing...
 
Lars Aronsson wrote:

> With time and experience, I've come to use the satellite view 
> (showing signal strengths) on my Garmin while I'm moving around.  
> It's no point in running around if no signal is received.

I was doing that at the weekend when I noticed little D's appear on all 
the signal strength bars on my GPS60 - this isn't mentioned in the 
manual, but I guess it means WAAS was working - because the error 
estimate shown at the top of the page dropped to 2m - definitely the 
most accurate coverage I've ever seen. Definitely a good upgrade from my 
old GPS12 - the screen is MUCH nicer, the battery life longer (on half 
the number of cells) and it'll store 10,000 trackpoints rather than 
1024. Not only that, but I find it incredibly useful to save the tracks 
(after downloading of course) as it then gives you a reference on the 
map view for where you've already been.

Jon

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