> It sounds like a lot of you purchased some of the GPS units from BG Micro.
> I purchased 6 of the GPS units and all but one seems to be bad!  They all
> communicate perfectly with the PC and program fine but never sees any
> signal from the satellites.  I have put them outside with clear sky (no
> builds, trees, clouds) for over an hour and nothing.  I see them swaping
> satellities in the list that they are looking for but never see any signal
> from any satellite.  When I switch back to the one good unit then it will
> lock on and track in normally less 5 minutes.  One other unit will track
> and see some signal but shows very low signal and won't hold a lock for
> more that a minute or two at a time.  I tried all 6 antennas on the one
> good unit and all the antennas seems to work fine.
>
> Anyone else see this from these units?

        I purchased two and one was initially bad. Exactly the same, it would
flash, it would respond, but it would never lock on. I sent an email to
bgmicro and tried it once more, and then it worked! Can't explain it.

> I found some good Trimble utilities if anyone wants to try them.  I think
> they are newer than what on Trimble's FTP site.  You can find
> them my on my
> small Trimble GPS info page at http://www.shelor.net/Trimble_GPS

        I get an internal server error on that one. TTYL

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