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RE: DeLorme TripMate @LL Bean

From: "Martin, Glen" <>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 18:06:40 -0500

> 	<snip>
> > It rains a lot here.  Does rain/overcast clouds
> > interfere with GPS?
> > 
> > 
> Patricia;
> Don't know about rain.  I think the civilian GPS signal is around 1.6GHz.
> We tried painting a tripmate with non-metallic paint and eliminating the
> battery pack with a flat metal plate and it significantly degraded
> preformance.  Perhaps the plate changed the antenna system; we never
> experimented to find out what caused the loss.  DeLorme also has some
> software, I believe its called Mapkit, that allows you to scan paper maps
> and justify lat and long and use them with your tripmate.  Should work
> well
> for large scale maps such as 1/24,000 and 1/63,300 topo sheets.  Might be
> fun with orthophoto quads or sat images as well.  Don't know what it does
> about different projections on smaller scale maps such as 1/1,000,000.
> Here's a URL for tripmate info that someone listed a couple of months ago.
> http://www.qsl.net/kd4rdb/tripmate.htm
> 
> glenn
> KC4QFG
> 	 

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