http://cachinggear.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/13/reception-how-to-improve/ Information about Geocaching equipment Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:26:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://cachinggear.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/13/reception-how-to-improve/#comment-119 olivia Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:57:01 +0000 http://cachinggear.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/13/reception-how-to-improve/#comment-119 This site add some extra cautions. Do not hold your gps at wrist level to fix gps signals, because our body is nearly all fluid, which absorbs microwave signals. Hold it high above your body. http://www.bivouac.com/ExpPg.asp?ExpId=817 This site add some extra cautions. Do not hold your gps at wrist level to fix gps signals, because our body is nearly all fluid, which absorbs microwave signals. Hold it high above your body. http://www.bivouac.com/ExpPg.asp?ExpId=817

]]> http://cachinggear.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/13/reception-how-to-improve/#comment-118 olivia Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:53:14 +0000 http://cachinggear.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/13/reception-how-to-improve/#comment-118 Put an aluminium foil under the gps to reflect gps signals. Try make it parabolic to converge the signals to your gps device. Put an aluminium foil under the gps to reflect gps signals. Try make it parabolic to converge the signals to your gps device.

]]> http://cachinggear.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/13/reception-how-to-improve/#comment-28 Daniel Dolan Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:04:34 +0000 http://cachinggear.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/13/reception-how-to-improve/#comment-28 Type your comment here. I was given a Garmin Etrex Legend for Christmas three years ago. It is my favorite toy. I live in rural Oregon U.S.A. where the temperate rain forest is as thick as Central America. I lose signal under heavy tree cover. There seems to be little I can do about it. The Legend has no provision for an external antenna. I have experimented with disabling the WAAS, it doesn,t seem to improve reception. I have tried all the tricks listed here. Do you have any other ideas.? A garmin 60 Csx will certainly work in this heavy forest, but I can't afford one. Thank you. Type your comment here. I was given a Garmin Etrex Legend for Christmas three years ago. It is my favorite toy. I live in rural Oregon U.S.A. where the temperate rain forest is as thick as Central America. I lose signal under heavy tree cover. There seems to be little I can do about it. The Legend has no provision for an external antenna. I have experimented with disabling the WAAS, it doesn,t seem to improve reception. I have tried all the tricks listed here. Do you have any other ideas.? A garmin 60 Csx will certainly work in this heavy forest, but I can’t afford one. Thank you.

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