[gps-talkusers] e: e: e: A general question

Hi I'm here, but you don't hear from me much. This is Karen and Harpo. I was interested about your trip with the gps. I have a lot of maps in the folder, but they are separated. I have 32 in one folder, and some western in another, but not sure why they did that. Do people have all the states in one folder so when they get away from their area in the plane it will switch over to the next state? I would not know how to get them all into the same folder. Plus, I'm not sure I have all the states maps. Have to try to figure that out. Go look. Karen and Harpo 


----- Original Message -----
From: kathy davis <davisfk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:49:21 -0600
Subject: [gps-talkusers] e: e: A general question



Hi, Don,



Glad you're enjoying your new devices.
When I flew to Hawaii I nestled the little receiver between the 
window and
the shade, which I pulled mostly down. I had terrific results, 
including
being told I was x miles from Honolulu, I think around 700 
something when I

tried that command.  It was great fun!



Kathy



----- Original Message -----

From: "Donald L.  Roberts" <donald_roberts_99@xxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:44:13 -0700
Subject: [gps-talkusers] A general question



As a user of the Sendero product for less than two weeks along
with my recently acquired Mpower BT, I am enjoying learning the
uses of this marvelous toy.



I recently took it on a jet plane from Minneapolis to Sacramento
which prompts me to ask this question.  I had the window seat on
this flight and fastened the Holux 236 to my shirt collar, so it
was relatively close to the window.  It took the Holux perhaps
two minutes to acquire a fix, and signal quality was only fair
with five satellites as I recall.  And now for the question.  Why
did neither the A command nor the C command yield any
information?  I do not recall verbatim the response, but the
bottom line was that it could not seem to get a fix.  Conversely,
I was able to determine both speed and altitude.  So the question
is why could I not ascertain the nearest city or LL coordinates?
I am certain there is a logical reason for this, but I am too new
at this sort of thing to understand the fine points.



Thanks for any responses.



Don Roberts

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