![]() ![]() Yet, just like with Twitter apps or weather apps, task managers or calendars, there's room for more and different podcast apps because there's room for more and different ways to handle podcasts. I wonder if cold weather in and of itself helps to ruin reception (other than batteries)? I remember another cold day (but sunny) where I had problems outside, but inside my mom's house (where unlike where I live, which is the bottom floor of a 7-story building, I get perfect indoor" reception) just an hour or so later.There are many, many podcast apps on the iPhone already, including one made by Apple, popular radio apps that offer podcasts, and several very well made indie apps. Just curious when you say "satellite signal reflect in extreme heavy wet snow", where would the signals bounce, off the falling snow and sleet? The satellite geometry on my screen did look extremely odd that day, so I'm sure that helped too. That being said.When there is extremely heavy wet snow falling at the time, that can also affect reception due to multi-path error, which is the result of satellite signal reflection.Īlso on the Trimble home site look for a reference to their GPS tutorial. You can tell how many and which specific satellites your unit will be seeing at any given time and see that there are times that you should EXPECT to get lousy reception and therefore lousy accuracy. With it, you can very likely answer your own question why you got bad reception at a certain time and at a certain location. Go to Trimble site Trimble Planning and download that free software. What is the scoop here? Thanks for your help. Yet both of my brother-in-laws (who got me and their sister into geocaching) think that they DO affect reception, one of them went for a cache a few days prior in very cloudy/foggy weather and had "bounce" issues as well (with a Garmin Legend, non-Cx version). But I have read lots of articles that seem to suggest that clouds do not affect reception and that the idea of GPSr's not working well in very cloudy weather is a myth. I have only seen this behavior before in extreme reception conditions (very tall buildings, very heavy tree cover). My best guess was the very thick cloud cover and weather. ![]() I also had Energizer Lithium AA's in it yesterday, so the 25-30 deg temps were probably not the problem either. I had just used it 3 days prior when it was sunny and 70 deg out with no problem, so I don't think almanac issues came into play. There are not a lot of trees or tall buildings to bounce the signals so that was not a major factor. above sea level and it usually shows a reading between 100 and 200 there). below sea level (I know that altitude is not as accurate as speed and position on most GPSr's, but my neighborhood is about 150 ft. It took a good 10 minutes to get a fix and it tended to bounce my speed and position quite inaccurately (with EPE's in the high 3 and low 4 digits, like 1000 ft.) and kept showing my altitude as about 100 ft. ![]() ![]() It had the worst "out in the open" performance I had ever seen. During Friday's sleet/snow storm here in the Northeast I took a 5 block walk from my condo to a convenience store to get a few things and took my GPS (Lowrance iFinder GO) along for curiousity. ![]()
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