No fix

[southchinasea]

Last couple of times out my Raymarine RL80RC plotter with Ray GPS has
alarmed with "No fix" pop up. Last time, I quickly checked the GPS set up
and it did seem only a few satellites were being picked up. Should I be
getting the thing looked at or simply accept this happens?

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[omega2]

Possible the Iraque situation had something to do with it, were the Hostilities going on when you lost signal, I was in Australia at the time and fishermen were complaining of bad signals being out by a mile or more or in some cases no signal at all.

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[clio]

according to canadianNM#413(T) a number of satellites are temporarily unavailable
for service and have degraded gps service

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[BrendanS]

Re: GPS satellite status

You can look at which satellites are inactive, or have outages planned here: <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/ADO/GpsActiveNanu.asp>http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/ADO/GpsActiveNanu.asp</A>

Have a look around at the rest of the site, it's quite informative.

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