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  • 04/05/2007 at 8:59 pm #1724605
    czernicachers

      Take a look at this article.
      http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/05/gps.solar.ap/index.html

      04/05/2007 at 9:23 pm #1872660
      Gusty Winds

        i thought i might be able to use that as an excuse for some of my DNFs, but 12/6 was a Wednesday and I don’t cache on Wednesdays.

        04/05/2007 at 11:49 pm #1872661
        hogrod

          Solar flares really effect all electronics, when there is high solar activity even your cell phone will have issues in places it normally works fine.

          You can check the current solar & magnetic filed activity here:
          http://www.n3kl.org/sun/status.html

          04/08/2007 at 10:12 pm #1872662
          PCFrog

            WOW

            I could hardly get reception today from 2-330pm. It would take about 10 min for a lock and once I got one it was completely unreliable.

            Anyone else have same problem today?

            04/09/2007 at 5:44 am #1872663
            Team Deejay

              I never have a lock problem, but I was getting a lot of drift around 3:30 today.

              04/25/2007 at 1:27 am #1872664
              hogrod

                I notice my 60cx was having slightly higher claimed accuracy tonight(I also lost lock in my house where I normally never have issues).
                I check the solar activity monitor I mentioned above and they are showing some activity tonight…. maybe thats what was causing me issues, but who knows.

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