Peter L. Peres wrote:

>The funny part being that they won't work even inside the attic of a wood
>thatched house, even less in a tile hatched one. I don't know if it's the
>nails, or the humidity and treatment chemicals in the wood. Trees stop it
>pretty well (ONE tree should be enough). Of course I think that the
>military have means to get better signal. I don't think that they need to
>poke a hand out of a trench under fire to get a fix ;-).
>
>Peter
>
>
>
The sveesix I got was from an auto application.  Being 6 channel (IIRC)
units and probably made for auto applications they expect a good view of
the sky.  Once they get a good lock and get a current almanac they work
great, though.

The sveesix is not exactly a high performance GPS unit.

-Adam

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