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GPS Location @19358 Ft, 800 Miles in the ocean???

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:48 pm
by Guest
Hey one of the GPS locations came to be in the middle of the Ocean... what is going ON....???

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:03 pm
by hutch109
You probably got a "multi-path" signal... GPS uses atomic clock type timing signals... which means you probably got a reflection of the signal - bounced off a wall or something and it shifted the expected receive timing by a milisecond and thats why it showed up all messed up.

I am sure location, altitude, and speed were all messed up - because all the server side calculations would be the same.

Sometimes if you were under the tree, garage, or something else - your projected signal got bounced and sent to the unit.

Does that make sense?

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