Article: 12983 of sci.geo.satellite-nav Message-ID: <3C55F2A4.E3285B36@attbi.com> From: Peter Rathmann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: Strange Garmin Problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.232.16.241 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1012265974 12.232.16.241 (Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:59:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:59:34 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:59:35 GMT Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!dfw-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn3feed!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:12983 Jude Franey wrote: > > I have a Garmin GPS 40 that hasn't been used for a few years. A few weeks > ago I tried to fire it up. No matter what I try it keeps giving me a > latitude and longitude that's consistently 22-23 miles south and 2-3 miles > west of my actual location. I tried several different locations and > everything else seems to be working correctly. Anybody have any ideas as to > what is happening? Are you sure you are reading the lat/long correctly? The unit can be set to display in various formats (i.e. degrees or degrees & minutes or degrees & minutes & seconds). If you give a specific example it would be easier to diagnose the problem - e.g. "I was on a hill top shown by USGS 7.5' Quad Diablo as lat. N37d 35m 40s and long. W121d 22m 35s and the GPS read lat N37d 34m 55s and long. W121d 22m 30s."