RE: RE: GPS was response camera -

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: GPS was response camera -

The receiver must have a line of sight t the sky (and a significant area of sky at that) ... trying to get a fix indoors - even by putting the receiver on a window sill - is pointless and completely against what the GPS spec will cope with. GPS *ABSOLUTELY MUST* have sight of a good bit of sky. Sitting in the street bordered by high buildings is not going t work. As I said, I set the one I'm borrowing up by taking the laptop outside t where my car was parked and sitting both it and the GPS receiver on the car roof and letting it get on with it ... from that position it had pretty much a clear sky for 360 degrees around from about 30 degrees above the horizon. Now I walk outside, lob the receiver on the dash and fire up the laptop and it finds three satellites immediately and a fourth within about 20 seconds.

 

Actually ... scrub everyting I've told you ... your unit is defective - I'll give you £20 for it for componet salvage cost... *grin*

 

Phil 

-----Original Message-----
From: alexpd [mailto:alexpd@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 July 2001 16:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was response camera -

Phil,

 

Where was the receiver when u got the fixes ( indoors or outdoors)?

 

Whilst it seemed to find satellites they stayed just circles for ages, then slowly red then green after about 6 hours. I have replaced the battery in the receiver.. same result. I have tried with Autoroute adn even now - although it has correcly located itself it says itis initialising! I suspect the receiver is not quite with it!

 

Regards

 

Alex 

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

From: Phil Harris

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 12:13 AM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was response camera -

OK ... I lobbed the software onto the VAIO and wandered outside. In three minutes it had found four satellites and was showing me I was half way between two roads (which I was).

 

I'll try out the route planning and navigation t morrow...

 

Maybe I should make you an offer on yours as I have a feeling I'll be buying one...

 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: alexpd [mailto:alexpd@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 July 2001 17:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was response camera -

HI there,

 

I bought a Sony streetmate off Yahoo auctions the other week. A few observations:

 

1. It took **Ages** to find its current location ( around 6 hours) and could only see the satellites when I had the antenna hanging out the house window.

2. Route planning seems a bit of a bodge ( if you ask for rush hour root from March in Cambridgeshire to Reading it proposes east t the M11 down the M11 then round miles of the M25!!!)

3. It doesn't even tell you if you deviate off the route. The built in one I had in a BMW I hired told you if you missed a turn and recommended a U-turn etc.

4. If you take the GPS card out of the laptop then travel without it in place it loses its location and has to be re-configured... again several hours.

5. The internet traffic update has been dropped and is no longer available.

 

I have just bought a copy of Autoroute 2001 which should work with the GPS card provided and hopefully solve some of the functionality problems I mention above. However this also seems to be taking an age for the GPS to "find" itself.

 

Moving on a bit. Does anyone know where I can get a ( reasonably priced) in Car power adapter for a laptop. I have an Advent laptop ( PC world special!) which takes 20V 3A input,. I was recommended a Targus kit down Tottenham Ct Rd at £90! Any ideas?

 

Also just got my Pronto - again off the auction, and some X10 Modules and IR converter  for my super dooper Home Cinema/ Lounge..... All I have to do now is finish building it!

 

Regards

 

Alex

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

From: Phil Harris

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 3:51 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was response camera -

Will d ... I have it in my sweaty grasp at the moment and just need to install Win 98 on my VAIO to use it.

 

By the way it's not Win 2k friendly as far as I can gather...

 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:tivo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 July 2001 10:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was response camera -

        Phil,

        Let me know what you think of this I am tempted myself. One of the things which wasn't yet implemented in the product when it first came out was dynamic recalculations of a route from A to B. So if you went wrong or deviated from the route the software would not (automatically) adjust its route. This had a particular impact if you were using their internet based traffic information. It was not accounted for once the route was initially set up. If a holdup was later identified it still directed you straight into it. Don't think they envisaged mobile internet access.

        Kevin

        I really *AM* going t borrow a Sony Streetmate system from Ian today and
the idea is I'm just "looking" at them to see what they're like...

*grin*

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 July 2001 23:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] response camera -
>
>
> If the microwaves dont get the family jewels.....SWMBO will one day !!!
>
> Keith
>




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