GL: ThinkPad VS GPS parallel port connection

[John & Judy Gill]

Rich and list,

One possible explanation is that the government has the ability to  
put in GPS jamming in areas where there are sensitive installations  
such as military bases (Norfolk), Nuclear Power Plants, etc.  One  
time when we were going by the Navy Base in Norfolk our GPS said we  
were going 40 mph and we were in South America!

If everything comes back after 10 miles or so, that could be the  
problem.

John Gill

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On Oct 10, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Rich Gano wrote: (snip)
>
> I have a T23 ThinkPad using a serial port connection to a Garmin  
> GPS 128.
> We left Panama City FL 525 miles ago, and everything worked fine  
> until about
> 425 miles when the Coastal Explorer 6.1.1 I am using started  
> displaying lost
> GPS errors.  The GPS is fine, and the cable connection is fine as  
> proven by
> hooking up a Toshiba Tecra 8000 to it.