> <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 > -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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