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  • 12/11/2009 at 3:35 am #1917975
    huffinpuffin2
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      @Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

      I took mine along to Hawaii, which has to be at least that far, if not farther. The biggest thing is to re-calibrate upon arrival, although mine was foolproof enough to tell me to do that, anyway.

      A bit of a newby still, and surprised there was a need to recalibrate on going to HI, unless it was for the compass. Lat/long are still OK, yes? Can you shed some light on what is being calibrated?

      Mahalo nui loa!!!

      12/11/2009 at 12:37 pm #1917976
      Trekkin and Birdin

        The unit will ask if it’s traveled more than 600 miles. If so, you have to start it up again so it can read the more “local” satellites, I guess. Maybe this just happens with Garmins, I don’t know. Whatever it is, it walks you through it, so you don’t really have to think.

        12/11/2009 at 3:09 pm #1917977
        furfool

          My vacations tend to be the 4 hour drive to northern Wi, so I guess I don’t get too fancy. I try to plan a route that will get some counties and DeLorme pages (as long as it’s not too far out of the way) that I don’t have. If we have plans to be out and about somewhere, I will load up a few in that area. If not, it’s pretty much r&r unless there is work to be done.

          12/11/2009 at 9:09 pm #1917978
          -cheeto-

            @Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

            The unit will ask if it’s traveled more than 600 miles. If so, you have to start it up again so it can read the more “local” satellites, I guess. Maybe this just happens with Garmins, I don’t know. Whatever it is, it walks you through it, so you don’t really have to think.

            Correct me if I am wrong but this is more a side-effect of traveling great distances with the GPS unit OFF then it is about traveling great distances. If you left it on the entire trip I do not think it would “recalibrate” anything.

            This thread is easy for me to respond to. We don’t vacation. 😥

            12/11/2009 at 11:24 pm #1917979
            Trekkin and Birdin

              You’re probably correct. I didn’t see the need to keep the handheld on for the long flight, I was hoping the pilots knew where they were going! 🙄

              When I got my reconditioned one after the dog ate my other one, same thing happened, I suppose because it traveled from wherever to here.

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