> Bad chip - it could never acquire the
> signal.
FWIW, it probably was not the chip's fault. The GPS satellites are the same
all over the world, so the chip would have only contained the maps for
Europe, nothing to do with tracking GPS satellites.
But GPS receivers normally make the assumption that they know roughly where
they are (and what time it is), in order to find the satellites quicker. It
sounds like your Garmin unit never figured out that it didn't know where it
was, or else has trouble with searching for satellites when time and/or
position are not known.
Disclosure : Garmin is sort of a competitor (I write high-end GPS receivers
for Deere).
Randall Young
Senior Software Engineer
NavCom Technology, Inc.
A John Deere Company
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