Garmin GPS 90 Question

"Slick" <Slick1@techie.com> wrote in message news:<41005a38_1@corp.newsgro>...
> Anyone ever have a GPS 90 that didn't seem to want to track it's position. I
> have a 90 and I have tried two different antenna with neither producing
> results. When viewing the "searching sky" page, it shows where it's trying
> to connect to satellites, it only show one that it is trying to connect to.
> It has no bars, and it cycles through the satellites, 1 through however
> many. I just picked this thing up, it was a deal and even if it doesn't
> work, I didn't pay enough to care. I got to satellite 14 before I gave up
> and turned it off.Any idea?
>


Leave it outside with a good view of the sky for at least a half hour
before you give up on it. If it was last used a long way away it can
take that long to update the almanac.

Andy

Another option is to use G7toWin to download a current Ephemeris from
a Garmin that has been used very recently, then upload the Ephemeris
into the GPS-90. This procedure worked for my old Garmin 38, which
had been left alone for a couple of years after I replaced it with a 3
Pilot. The 38 refused to acquire and download the necessary Ephemeris
data, but after transferring the data from my 3 Pilot, the 38 had no
problem acquiring satellites and getting full 3D position.

If it worked for a 38, it will probably work for a 90.

Kirk