[GeoStL] Re: GPS Reception

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I think that the whole line of Etrex GPSr's have moderate to poor reception.
I have a friend who did a side by side comparison with the Etrex and
SportTrac and he said the Magellan was able to maintain sat lock continuosly
while the Etrex was in and out. Valleys seem to be the problem in most cases
but he even was able to keep sat lock under a shelter. Don't know if that is
valid but I do know with the 76S I maintain a better reception than I ever
did with the legend or vista.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim & Pam" <timpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:21 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] GPS Reception


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> I went with Dodgeman last weekend when he did Tour Montauk. At one part of
> the hunt you end up in a deep valley in the woods. Dodgeman has a E-TREX
> Legend, I have a old Garmin 12XL. The Legend lost satellite signal when we
> got into toe valley and didn't get the signal back until we got out of the
> valley/woods. My 12XL lost signal a couple of times but it always got
> another satellite lock. If we wouldn't have had my 12XL He never would
have
> found the cache. I needed the GPS to find it also because it gets really
> dark after the sun goes down and everything looks different with all of
the
> leaves on the trees.
>
> Has anybody else had problems with the legend loosing satellite signal
when
> you think it shouldn't?
>
> Tim
>
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