cthomp26_at_csc.com wrote: > All the information re GPS has been helpful, thanks everyone. Another question > though....how close to your target do they really put you?? > > Cheryl > > Officially they are accurate to about 50 feet. In the real world, where they don't always lock on to as many satellites as they want, mine has stated (it will tell you what its estimated accuracy is) an error of as much as 200 feet. When Uncle Sam decides to deliberately degrade the signal they can be off by 100 yards. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 02 2000 - 10:02:51 PST
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