Charles Basenga Kiyanda wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't thought about clipping the receiver > to the top of my backpack. I also hadn't thought that a lot of small > movement, compared to a steady stable displacement, might lower the > accuracy. I'll keep that in mind if I try to attach the gps to my > forearm and see what happens. Good suggestions frome everyone. I'll keep > it in mind. > > Charles > > I'm using Vista Cx. From my experience and from what I've read from other people, I get the best reception if the unit is facing up, as you said. I'm not sure small movements affect it that much. I also use poles, but when walking on a flat terrain I tend to hold both poles in one hand and the unit in the other :). I also try to hold it in the hand which does not face a slope, it helps a little bit. I did discover one other thing: if I leave the unit turned off for a week or so, the unit's clock is no longer in sync, so it shows the incorrect time (even by a couple of days). The problem with this is that it calculates positions of the satellites using the incorrect time, so it takes quite a while to find the right satellites (and then synchronize the time). Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to set the time manually.
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