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    Bad GPS day today

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    • ? Offline
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      I had today 2 activities with partly very bad / no GPS in easy circumstances. GPS fix was done in the morning. Never had this before.

      Two questions:

      • Did fix in the morning in Germany and went then to Austria. Is this crucial for GPS? Should I have done fix later in Austria.
      • Does it matter to give green arrow time? That means wait a minute or so with green arrow in the beginning, before pressing start. Today I was very quick in start pressing…

      Would be interesting if there are further reasons…

      Thanks.

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        isazi Moderator @Guest
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        @mountainchris said in Bad GPS day today:

        Two questions:

        • Did fix in the morning in Germany and went then to Austria. Is this crucial for GPS? Should I have done fix later in Austria.

        Not really. It could lead to a slower time for the watch to get a good GPS fix, but once you have a good fix should not matter much. Unless you are in difficult terrain and lose satellites, in that case without ephemeris it can be more difficult to find new satellites.

        • Does it matter to give green arrow time? That means wait a minute or so with green arrow in the beginning, before pressing start. Today I was very quick in start pressing…

        It is generally good to wait a minute, although it depends on the difficulty of the terrain (and satellites positions, etc.).

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          @mountainchris Maybe I should but I never wait after the green GPS arrow is solid. I rarely have issues but it does happen.

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            thanasis Bronze Member
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            I had a really bad gps experience today also . I did Snap to route to align it during the expertise but it was also terrible and the distance and the metrics are all over the place . Actually a 5km shows (snapped to route ) as 3,8km
            . During the run the device the auto pause was enabled even though I had a 5:30/km pace .
            The average he pace shows 6.05m/km and the NGP as 7:23…

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