From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 9:11:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F6737BBE3 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 09:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05321; Sat, 6 May 2000 10:11:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17656; Sat, 6 May 2000 10:11:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 10:11:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005061611.KAA17656@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Warner Losh , Wes Peters , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up In-Reply-To: <9040.957629310@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200005061603.KAA17604@nomad.yogotech.com> <9040.957629310@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >I disagree. I routineles pick up 10-11 satellites, and I'm about > >half-way between the pole and the equator. Heck, I just looked, and > >I've got 8 locked on right now. > > Right, 8 is the norm. When you have 10 or 11 a couple or four of them > are so low on the horizon that they hardly matter. Actually, the horizon ones are the best ones for calculating altitude, so they are very much being used. And, from looking at the satellite map, only a couple of them are on the horizon. (I *really* like the Garmin 12 unit. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message