Most GPS's will ask this, usually to see if you've travelled hundreds of km's, so it can decide whether to do a longer search for satellites.

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Originally posted by Jman

Thanks hardie,
So is it best to answer no or just ignore and press escape?

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Yes, or it will, waste extra time looking for satellites. Only when you've travelled more than 100km's do you let it search longer?

The very first time you turn it on it will not know where it is. Answering yes will get it to do a search from scratch. It will take just as long if it has moved a long distance anyhow. If it asks this when you have only moved a short distance it will usually get a fix quicker if you answer no. At least that is my experience.

A detailed explaination can be found here

www.gpsinformation.org/dale/gpsfix.htm

Re: card problems.

You may want to read this

wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaviGPS (GT-11)

Basically

"Not all memory cards work in a NaviGPS. It is known that only 2.85v cards work. Any other voltage will not work, however it can be difficult to discover what voltage any particular card is.

Known to work
The following cards are known to work:

SanDisk Ultra II - 1Gb/2Gb
SanDisk Ultra II Plus (with integral USB connector) - 512Mb
SanDisk Ultra II Plus (with integral USB connector) - 1.0Gb
SanDisk 512Mb, 1Gb
Panasonic branded 16Mb
Impact branded 256Mb
Kingston Ultimate 133x 512MB

Known to NOT work
"Canon" branded 32Mb
"Jessops" branded 512Mb (corrupts see below)
"Palm" branded 128Mb (corrupts see below)
SanDisk TransFlash 32MB micro-SD with SanDisk microSD/TransFlash to SD Adapter
Kingston Technology 2GB Secure Digital (SD) Card

Troubleshooting
The NaviGPS expects a FAT-16 file system so don't expect cards with more than 2GB to work.
The NaviGPS is a bit fussy about the formatting of the file system. If you have problems, try reformatting the card using the NaviGPS's built-in memory card format command. Cards formatted using Linux seem to be more prone to problems (try formatting the entire card without a partition table because that's how the NaviGPS formats it).
There have been a couple of reported cases where the unit has appeared to work fine, but has not created any track log files. Try running chkdsk. The files might be there but just not visible in the file system directory.
As the data on the SD card is just NMEA ASCII text, it can be converted to GPX (or any other format) with GPSBabel.
Some PDAs running Windows Mobile will automatically wipe a NaviGPS formatted SD card on insertion, no questions asked. Test this before you have important data (the above comment about extracting data in Linux will get it back again). The issue with this may be using a card that's not seen a Windows environment before it's used. If a card is used in a Windows Mobile PDA and then put back in the NaviGPS, all appears to be fine and you don't appear to lose your data when it's next inserted in the PDA. Someone should verify this is the case and add a comment here please. "

This was writen before Tom and others started organising software updates with Locosys so it may not be 100% now. But to be safe ,it would be a good place to start.

Yo

Another Question

I've heard that the Navi has a system of beeps to tell how fast you are going. I was wondering if the beeps can be set to act as a starting watch for when I'm course racing. Thanks