[Loadstone] No Signal and Signal Acquired transitions.

[Shawn Kirkpatrick]

When the receiver starts up it has to download the efemeris data from the 
satellites to let it figure out where it is. It has to wait for this 
download to complete before it can start getting signal. If I remember 
correctly this data is sent every 30 seconds. So the receiver will have to 
wait for the data to be sent, correctly download it, and then it can get a 
gps signal. If there's any errors in the download then the process starts 
all over again. I guess if you're moving it can effect this download 
process.

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Charlie Richardson on 2007/08/10 at 20:18 -0400]
>
>> Is it coincidence or a fact that GPS receivers don't acquire a signal if
>> trying in motion.
>
> Even though the first time is presented as "acquiring a signal", what it really
> means is that the receiver has to first figure out where it is on the earth.
> It's much easier for it to decide where it is if it isn't being moved around.
>
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