Suunto 9 with the recent GPS firmware was among least accurate GPS watches in today's 25K trail race
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos happy running
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
great info, Iāll store my cable in the backpack -
@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos interesting, is Suunto the first vendor to add Beidou compatibility? Iāve always been curious about the system, they have 47 working satellites and seem to always be visible
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@isazi I think COROS is the first todo so with their latest (Dec) update (or Jan dont remember well)
I think Suunto was the first to power up that chip and add Galileo support.
From my tests with COROS it has improved track quality (using BEIDOU) and from other feedback I have seen.
I would love to provide comparisons once the FW is a bit steady, promised later this week (for testers). (Which could also be delayed due to Sony).
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@isazi
ā¦please donāt mind me askingā¦ is it basically possible to use beidou standalone? -
@isazi For the reference , as a Galileo enthousiast, the continuous unreliability of the constellation for me, it has proved worse than Glonass. I still use it, but would really like to
A) EU FIX it , it is still problematic
b) See some real improvement of tracks with BEIDOU -
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos same here, I love Galileo and would love to see it thrive, but man it fails horribly at times
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@TELE-HO I donāt think any of those can be atm used as standalones. BEIDOU does not have good coverage in my area at least. Yes it has a few sats though.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos power consumption is similar to gps+glo or gps+gal?
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@isazi yeah exactly. Some times I am like woooohooo. Look at this smoothness, and some other times -> Offset of 100m like wtf. I run with 3 S9 different constellations 10cm apart from each arm and you can clearly see who fucked up (which system)
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@Maryn Good question. I dont know. For QZSS for example the battery damage is 0 , for Gali more, and for glonass less than Gali
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos based on your experience which is more reliable? Only GPS?
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@Maryn atm not sure. I will come back with test results. Dont want to give false hopes.
In theory GPS + GLO = Better and have not seen anything strage tbh
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos ok, understood but better than GPS standalone?
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ist there a good website that shows satellite coverage with the various systems and for a selectable region?
Thx!
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@Egika
yes there is, I remember that either @isazi or @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos has posted a phone app that shows live satellites of the famous (of not all?) systemsā¦
BUT Iāve searched for it but canāt recall atm the topic and discussionā¦
it must have been in the S9 proās and conās or in the firmware update wishlistā¦ sorry -
@Egika Coros introduced similar thing directly in watch .
Maybe we can vote for such feature -
@Maryn
an indicator about satellite reception quality -
@Maryn I would not like any of those features on a watch. Sure you can have those eg on the s7 its super easy to install an app todo that but even me gets 0 valueā¦