I have Street Altas navigation on my in-car PC, and its having a real hard time acquiring satallites. It will get a signal for about 1 minute and then lose it. Sometimes it will go for half an hour without being able to lock in. The system was working fine for about a year; I didn't run the nav software for several months, and now its got real problems.

Any ideas?

 

what kind of GPS are you using? where is it located? how many satellites are you able to lock on to?

 

I am using DeLorme EarthMate GPS.

The display for the satellites shows a vertials black line with an id for each satellite. That line is overalyed with a colored dot to indicate signal strength. Red, Yellow and Green. Normally I would see 7 or 8 satellites, and most of them would show green. Now I usually see 0 to 2 lines as the system is attempting to acquire a signal. Occasionally I wll see the 7 or 8 lines, but they just don't get acquired. Then for a few seconds the system will acquire enought to start tracking, but then the will all be lost, and the display will go back to 0 to 2 lines again.

I have been wondering of the GPS unit is going bad, but am not sure how to test it.

 

I got my PC about the same time you got yours. I am running the CoPilot 2003 software and I am having no problems at all.