GPS
Old GPS unit no longer receiving WAAS signal?
I bought the Magellan SporTrak Map handheld GPS over 4 years ago and back then it worked great. Now, I have dusted it off and have been trying to use it again but I can not obtain WAAS. I have downloaded the latest firmware 5.34 from 2004, re-initalized it multiple times and spent many hours (and batteries) trying to get WAAS (I can pick up all of the other satellites but no waas. The unit does say that it is WAAS enabled. I've read that the WAAS satellites changed back in the fall of 2006. I guess my unit can't read the new satellite? I've have read the manual from cover to cover and still nothing in there to get it to work properly.Magellan will no longer support my unit and I can't get any help from them. any ideas? I'd rather not buy a new unit if I can help it. Thanks!
Public Comments
- The best suggestion would be to buy a new GPS unit and I would highly recommend Garmin Etrex Vista HCx I bought mine on-line at Walmart for an unbelievable low price before last hunting season. it is way impressive! Check out all the features of this unit and you will agree
- Known problem with this line of products and discussed to death in the ST/Meridian yahoogroups. The unit has a hardcoded table of WAAS sats that no longer exist. When you re-initialized it, you erased the updates from the birds that are now offline and the unit hasn't been updated to look for new ones. Since this unit has been discontinued for a while, the hopes of Magellan fixing the firmware are low. Explorist has the same issue. http://www.gpsfaqs.org/faqs/magellan/explorist/explorist600/usage.html#waas_up
