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Author Re: GPS Satellites in view (green) based on the location of your
Sam Wormley

2007-07-17, 10:33 pm

Happy Trails wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:21:19 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Does anyone know what mask angle is used in the Garmin 76csx? This
> page was showing one sat for quite a while before my receiver
> acknowledged it's availability, and the map shows a few more way off
> to one side that the receiver just doesn't want to see. And NO -
> there were only 11 shown in the display at the time.
>
>



The FAA webpage has to be showing visibility for receivers at very
high altitude... I haven't bothered to determine the limit, but it
is higher than 30,000 ft above MSL. I checked with software (XEphem)
and receiver both with mask angles set to zero.

-Sam

Sam Wormley

2007-07-18, 4:33 am

Sam Wormley wrote:
> Happy Trails wrote:
>
>
> The FAA webpage has to be showing visibility for receivers at very
> high altitude... I haven't bothered to determine the limit, but it
> is higher than 30,000 ft above MSL. I checked with software (XEphem)
> and receiver both with mask angles set to zero.
>
> -Sam
>


My theory is blown all to hell!
Sam Wormley

2007-07-18, 4:33 am

Sam Wormley wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>
> My theory is blown all to hell!


Apologies to all!
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