Just had another incident of the same, about 8 miles south of Melrose, New Mexico. Since there isn't much there, on a hunch I decided to turn off the GPS-V. IMMEDIATELY the truck computer found the sats again, so --<br>
<br>My GPS-V has an external amplified antenna on it. It's about 7 or 8 years old, and has been through a lot of rain & snow. Is itpossible the antenna has some corrosion somewhere, such that it might oscillate and cause interference in the GPS band?<br>
<br>Vy 7 3<br>Earl<br>KD5XB<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Earl Needham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earl.kd5xb@gmail.com">earl.kd5xb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<u></u><div>I can be fairly specific about where I had the problem in Denver -- I was on I-225, headed north, about a mile south of I-70. I guess I'll have to check a map to locate Federal Heights. <br><div class="im">
<br>Earl<br><br><div>KD5XB -- Earl Needham <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs</a> Quoting from the Coast Guard: ZUT Posted via Blackberry</div><hr></div><div>
<b>From: </b> david vanhorn <<a href="mailto:kc6ete@gmail.com" target="_blank">kc6ete@gmail.com</a>>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:48:49 -0700</div><div><b>To: </b><<a href="mailto:earl.kd5xb@gmail.com" target="_blank">earl.kd5xb@gmail.com</a>>; TAPR APRS Mailing List<<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@tapr.org</a>></div>
<div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [aprssig] GPS interference?</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div>I have a suspiciously low number of reports in the federal heights area, but other than that it looks ok.<br>This is an old Trimble yellow thing, not Earthmate, but similar. Needed a mod to run from 12V and has to hear "ASTRAL" before it will work.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:39 PM, david vanhorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kc6ete@gmail.com" target="_blank">kc6ete@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Interesting.. I can check my tracks. I get thru Denver pretty often.<br>You know it's all our fault for using their spectrum for all these years, right? (wink wink wink)<br> <br>BTW: I'd like to meet you in person one of these days.. :) <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Earl Needham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earl.kd5xb@gmail.com" target="_blank">earl.kd5xb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Anybody know if Lightsquared is testing in Colorado?<br>
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Last night, while driving the 18-wheeler up I25, my old Garmin GPS-V (for APRS) lost the sats 6 or 8 times -- in Trinidad, Pueblo, and Denver. I first thought my GPS-V was dieing of old age -- but then I noticed the truck computer was losing the GPS signal at the same time. My Dezl 560LMT didn't seem to be affected.<br>
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I called my company this morning and they told me that some of our drivers had reported similar problems in the Southeast.<br>
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Anybody know what's going on?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Earl<br>
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KD5XB -- Earl Needham <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs</a> Quoting from the Coast Guard: ZUT Posted via Blackberry<br>
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