GPS not working.

[Roughasguts]

Guy's me boat came with an old Garminn 45 GPS, but it won't find satelites anymore! did some one switch them off a while ago?
All the routes and maps are still there cleaned the aerial conections but no satelites any one know what gives ? or is the old Garmin just stuffed?


Cheers

[MackerelMan]

Is that the old white one with the flip up antenna. I think they had a demo mode. I reckon you would have tried it but check to see it is in or defaulting to satellites off.

[FishHunter]

Guy's me boat came with an old Garminn 45 GPS, but it won't find satelites anymore! did some one switch them off a while ago?
All the routes and maps are still there cleaned the aerial conections but no satelites any one know what gives ? or is the old Garmin just stuffed?


Cheers

The USA military has encrypted the signal so no civilian use anymore.















it must be your gps unit

[age]

We used to have these models at work and they did this if they had not been used for a fair while. They need to rebuild their almanac. Leave it out (turned on) in clear view of the sky for a few hours. It will start tracking satellites progressively and rebuilding it's library on them. We used to be able to quicken the process by keying in approx co-ordinates for your current position. Also make sure it is set on an Australian projection. if they have been turned off for a while, they sometimes drift to other settings.

Cheers

A

[Roughasguts]

We used to have these models at work and they did this if they had not been used for a fair while. They need to rebuild their almanac. Leave it out (turned on) in clear view of the sky for a few hours. It will start tracking satellites progressively and rebuilding it's library on them. We used to be able to quicken the process by keying in approx co-ordinates for your current position. Also make sure it is set on an Australian projection. if they have been turned off for a while, they sometimes drift to other settings.

Cheers

A

Think your on to something here.
I'm still trying found one sat yesterday but nothing today.

Cheers.

[Roughasguts]

Is that the old white one with the flip up antenna. I think they had a demo mode. I reckon you would have tried it but check to see it is in or defaulting to satellites off.

Yup that's the one!

Cheers.

[Roughasguts]

We used to have these models at work and they did this if they had not been used for a fair while. They need to rebuild their almanac. Leave it out (turned on) in clear view of the sky for a few hours. It will start tracking satellites progressively and rebuilding it's library on them. We used to be able to quicken the process by keying in approx co-ordinates for your current position. Also make sure it is set on an Australian projection. if they have been turned off for a while, they sometimes drift to other settings.

Cheers

A

Thanks mate all good now! yup had to find the manual and re set to auto locate which clears old memory and data and searches with a fresh memory.

Now takes only minutes to start up now.

Cheers.