Navman Pin 570 Blues

Cleverchap · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 30, 2005 Posts: 2

I have recently purchased a Pin 570, having seen some good reviews, plus i managed to get a discount through work on this.

I know i am probably being thick, but I have been struggling to pick up any satellites on the unit. My gps is set to Com8, 9600. I looked on Navman's website to look for clues, but the best thing i saw on there was to wait 15 minutes to get an initial lock when unit is first ever used.

I know the weather is a bit pants this afternoon in north london, but I thought i would of seen something. I tried last night in Moorgate EC2M (just outside the station there) and also in N9, edmonton.

Any and all suggestions welcome.
Chris

DGreen · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

Cleverchap,

I am not sure of the settings for the PiN 570, but the settings mentioned seem a little odd specially the 9600. I have its predecessor, the PiN 300 and the settings are Coms 2, 4800. These settings may be worth a try. In first instance make sure you are outdoors and not in a vehicle, as vehicle may have athermic windscreen, which makes it almost impossible to pick up good signal strength.

Best Regards,
Denis

johnkath · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2005 Posts: 11

Cleverchap, go into the GPS part of the menu and check that the top box is ticked!

Your settings COM8 and 9600 are right for the 570!

John

Cleverchap · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 30, 2005 Posts: 2

I figured it out in the end, it didn't help that i have a renault megane with a heat reflective screen, which blocked most of the signal.

Outside in the day time I was getting 8 green bars+, in the car, it dropped to 2 red ... (hmmm) - i have bought a mini mmcx external aerial which i should get mid week.

The settings were correct and yes gps was on ;-) Thanks anyway peeps. Look forward to using this little baby loads

DGreen · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:16 am Post subject:

Cleverchap,

Great to see you have sorted out the problem. Those damn Renaults !!! I lease Renaults when visiting Europe and fortunately was aware of the windscreen situation well before I personally ventured into portable navigation systems. The external antenna is part of my standard travelling kit these days (even here in Australia).

I shouldn't really just pick on the poor Renaults, as I know that many European manufactured cars have the same screen treatments these days.

Best Regards,
Denis

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