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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Not quite as good as the time I saw my car driving from Sydney to Newcastle in a few minutes. In that case it turned out that the Trimble GPS receiver could only hear a limited number of satellites (one?), and decided that it was locked on, and so the car followed at a fixed distance from the satellite from what I can work out. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Following that episode I got Trimble to issue a factory note that stated that their GPS receivers should be switched off in areas of no coverage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Darryl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>p.s. When I am actually flying, the GPS looks a lot more sedate. Aviation GPS units do a lot of self-checks for obvious reasons<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>---------</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Darryl Smith, VK2TDS POBox 169 Ingleburn NSW 2565 Australia </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mobile Number 0412 929 634 [+61 4 12 929 634 Int] - 02 9618 6459 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.radio-active.net.au/blog/">www.radio-active.net.au/blog/</a> - <a href="http://www.radio-active.net.au/">www.radio-active.net.au/</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Terry Neumann<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> ozaprs@aprs.net.au<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OZAPRS] Something is wrong, this is a fixed location.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The system is not as perfect as we imagine.<br><br>Occasionally - happily very rarely - things happen which are clearly not correct. <br><br>Have a <a href="http://www.users.on.net/%7Etfneumann/Public/IMG_4035r.jpg">look here</a> at a photo I took about 6 months ago - pay special attention to the speed.<br><br>The photo was taken for the altitude reading. I didn't even notice the speed until I downloaded the pic from the camera a few days later. <br><br>No, I wasn't flying - although I'm not prepared to concede that immediately when I get around to pin the picture to the gliding club notice board <span class=moz-smiley-s8> =-O </span>. <br><br>Nor was I on the motor bike; VStroms are fast, but not quite up to that. Push bike? Nah - no way.<br><br>It was in our stationary Misterbishi Lancer (VK5ATN-9) in the car park at Dead Horse Gap on a return trip from Cranberry. Curious indeed!<br><br>Regards,<br>Terry<br>VK5ATN<br><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>