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    Default 997 GPS loosing lock???

    Kept loosing satellites at Lake Arkabutla, Ms. this past weekend. Anyone ever experience this prob?

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    I had the same thing happen at Lake Talquin in FL this past weekend with my Eagle 502c...Hmmmmm
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    I don,t remember the 997 but my 5200,s will loose waas lock quite a bit up here on a really overcast day---garmin map 76 stays locked pretty good and its in the worst spot on the boat
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    My unit has lost lock a time or two but is able to correct the problem in a short period of time. It occurs mostly when there is heavy cloud cover or when I'm under a thick canopy of trees.
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    Mine would recover in just a short period of time, but I have never had it to lose communications like it did last weekend. The weather was great.
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    Our local T.V. station said there would be some interuptions last week with solar flars or something like that, it may have something to do with the satalites??
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    Global Warming maybe? El Nino perhaps?

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    I used my new 797 on Tuesday for the first time and had the same problem that others have talked about with the GPS side of Hummingbird. I had all my waypoints loaded on the 797 and it would either be way off or would reception all together.

    Thankfully I read on this forum not to trust the Hummingbird GPS and had my Garmin 378 that I have used for three years and has never stirred me the wrong way.

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