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Will navigator work when placed in pocket or backpack?
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S. Bruce
11 years ago
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I recently bought a Garmin eTrex and I'm new to this. Does the navigator always have to be open to the sky? Or can I put it in pocket or backpack? I even bought a book on navigation, but it doesn't address this!
Thanks!
Winfried Ehrlich
11 years ago
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my Garmin (Oregon 600) is working in pocket and in backpack. Somtimes
also inside a wooden house.
Post by S. Bruce
I recently bought a Garmin eTrex and I'm new to this. Does the navigator always have to be open to the sky? Or can I put it in pocket or backpack? I even bought a book on navigation, but it doesn't address this!
Thanks!
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Earl Grey
11 years ago
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Post by S. Bruce
I recently bought a Garmin eTrex and I'm new to this. Does the navigator always have to be open to the sky? Or can I put it in pocket or backpack? I even bought a book on navigation, but it doesn't address this!
Thanks!
Next time you're planning to be outside, take your new toy with you.
Hold it in your hand for about 10 minutes and see if it works. Then put
it in your pocket or backpack. Repeat the observation.

Answer to your question will be readily apparent.

More importantly, a person who couldn't figure out the above by himself
probably shouldn't venture into the woods alone. In fact, if I were you,
I'd limit my excursions to wide sidewalks in major metropolitan areas
during daylight hours only ;-)
--
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to
these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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Hans-Georg Michna
11 years ago
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Post by S. Bruce
I recently bought a Garmin eTrex and I'm new to this. Does the navigator always have to be open to the sky? Or can I put it in pocket or backpack? I even bought a book on navigation, but it doesn't address this!
Thanks!
If you put it into a backpack on top of other content, display
pointing up or backwards, and if the backpack is dry and
non-metallic, reception will be perfect. It is the ideal place
for a GPS receiver, apart from the fact that you cannot quickly
reach for it.

In a pocket it is not as good, because the body of the person
shields it from the satellites on the other side, but it usually
works well enough in open country.

Reception always gets worse under foliage and near steep
mountain slopes. It gets much worse under wet foliage.

Hans-Georg

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