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davidi Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 05, 2005 Posts: 7
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject: WAAS and UK |
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Does WAAS work in the UK? |
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Tubal Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Judging by the usual answers that is a yes/no/maybe/not very well/sometimes/never ha ha |
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zogman Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 1417 Location: swindon uk
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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davidi..enter the word 'waas' into search and see what comes up... _________________ *************************** |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15226 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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waas doen't but egnos should. however, egnos is in early/trial stages so you may not get a fix on the beacons and just run down the battery faster instead.
general thoughts are that egnos is over-the-top for driving with gps - the extra accuracy would not make much difference to your position on a road anyway - only really helpful if you're walking on foot in the middle of the moors as opposed to on a 120m wide stretch of the m1
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Skippy Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: 24/06/2003 00:22:12 Posts: 2946 Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Tubal wrote: | Judging by the usual answers that is a yes/no/maybe/not very well/sometimes/never ha ha |
My vote goes with the "maybe, not very well, sometimes" camp. Unless you are geocaching then it isn't worth bothering with. _________________ Gone fishing! |
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Lester_Burnham Frequent Visitor
Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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FWIW, I started switching on EGNOS, because on some local roads near where I live, my i3 had some minor lag in my road position WRT junctions and roundabouts.
EGNOS appears to have cured that.
Not particularly that important, and it has only really ever seemed to have had this lag near where I live - it's just that I encountered this, when first using my i3, so I was a little concerned - at the time - whether it was (or could have been something more general with the i3. |
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