The Story of David Kaspar

Dear all,

I have an IPAQ h5550 running a GIS software called ArcPad. I have a Fortuna Clip-on GPS. The manual says under the accuracy section that it can achieve 7 meter accuracy with WAAS correction.

As you all know the Fortuna has nothing more than a power button and that fiddly switch for ST/XT mode! So how does one turn on the WAAS capability? I live in the UK and when I look at the track log within ArcPad it only ever reports a standard GPS fix. Does the GPS automatically switch to WAAS mode when it starts picking up the correct satellites or is it something one has to turn on?

Duncan

There is a lot more about this at the GPS Passion forums.

WAAS is not available under XT mode and I think that XT mode may be comparable accuracy (plus it has better reception).

Thanks!