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Location of Speed Control for GPS???
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 699713" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>I agree with Dingo. I have been using a portable GPS system in my vehicles for about 4 years now and never had a problem with accuracy or any major signal losses. Only in on instance was i driving under an overpass, lost the satilite signal when my turn came up. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The few rare times when you are going through a tunnel, most GPS systems will not realize the signal is lost for about 15+ seconds and often you are already past the tunnel and the signal pickes up immediately when you exit the tunnel. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As for clouds, I have never encountered a loss of signal in the cloudy raining weather. GPS system don't suffer rain fade like satilite TV does. Satilite TV requires a much stronger signal which can be severly compromised if it is raining very hard (not just cloudy) The surface of the satilite dish antennea is distorted by the rain running down and cannot focus the signal on the LNB</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, in the end, it would be very rare that any momentary loss of signal would cause you to get lost of off route.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 699713, member: 52972"] I agree with Dingo. I have been using a portable GPS system in my vehicles for about 4 years now and never had a problem with accuracy or any major signal losses. Only in on instance was i driving under an overpass, lost the satilite signal when my turn came up. The few rare times when you are going through a tunnel, most GPS systems will not realize the signal is lost for about 15+ seconds and often you are already past the tunnel and the signal pickes up immediately when you exit the tunnel. As for clouds, I have never encountered a loss of signal in the cloudy raining weather. GPS system don't suffer rain fade like satilite TV does. Satilite TV requires a much stronger signal which can be severly compromised if it is raining very hard (not just cloudy) The surface of the satilite dish antennea is distorted by the rain running down and cannot focus the signal on the LNB So, in the end, it would be very rare that any momentary loss of signal would cause you to get lost of off route. ...Rich [/QUOTE]
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