Frank's Blog

I tried out the Dakota 20 some days on my way to work. As the instructions say, it could take some minutes till the receiving of satellite signals is established. Well, on my way to the subway station, which was 5 minutes away, the GPS didn’t get any signal, but later on leaving the subway and going to work (12 minutes) it did, finally.

On the way back I decided to go without any transportation. Again it took some time till the device knew where we were. I recorded these tracks and imported it later with the basecamp. I added also some way points of my “frequent places”, like work, home, etc.
Here’s a screen shot of the bascamp, as you can see it has a kindda “raw flavour” due to just having the base map installed.

The next day I followed another strategy to start using the Dakota. I went out to the next place with more sight to the sky, not with huge buildings all around. There I started the Garmin and stood still and waited. It took just two minutes till it got enough satellite signals. Maybe this is the best way to use it. Afterwards, while going through the streets it didn’t loose the signals and was able to record the track.

I’ll figure it out with some more testings soon.