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<blockquote data-quote="Kurtr" data-source="post: 134501" data-attributes="member: 194"><p>I agree with having a compass problem is most dont know or have never learned how they work. I would be willing to bet most dont know how to figure the offset of your map to correlate it to the compass.&nbsp; I am the guy who gets lost in a phone booth so i have dug pretty in depth to this navigation thing.&nbsp; So one of the guys i was with had a gps that did not lock on to the sats while the other 3 we had with did.&nbsp; There are some i have noticed and mostly with magelians older ones you have to go in if you make a big move from where it was initially calibrated at and set it up for the state you are in.&nbsp; Did that and boom reading 10 sats in no time.&nbsp; Having the sat coverage that there now is because of decommissioned military sats if one knows how to diagnose problems with the unit you run it should work unless blocked.&nbsp; I know sat phones will work any where any time and they run off the same sat that the gps does so its not really reception per say like a cell phone.&nbsp; I remember when we got the first gps units in guards and they would loose connection quite often but as more sats came on line it was way better and by the time i got out in 2002 it was used to set all firing for the mlrs system.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Kurtr, post: 134501, member: 194"] I agree with having a compass problem is most dont know or have never learned how they work. I would be willing to bet most dont know how to figure the offset of your map to correlate it to the compass. I am the guy who gets lost in a phone booth so i have dug pretty in depth to this navigation thing. So one of the guys i was with had a gps that did not lock on to the sats while the other 3 we had with did. There are some i have noticed and mostly with magelians older ones you have to go in if you make a big move from where it was initially calibrated at and set it up for the state you are in. Did that and boom reading 10 sats in no time. Having the sat coverage that there now is because of decommissioned military sats if one knows how to diagnose problems with the unit you run it should work unless blocked. I know sat phones will work any where any time and they run off the same sat that the gps does so its not really reception per say like a cell phone. I remember when we got the first gps units in guards and they would loose connection quite often but as more sats came on line it was way better and by the time i got out in 2002 it was used to set all firing for the mlrs system. [/QUOTE]

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