Help! BT-77 can't resolve fix

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Steve - 14 Oct 2006 09:42 GMT

It's probably died. My BT-77 GPS receiver seems to have suddenly become
unable to resolve a fix. Although it can "see" satellites (I've seen it
with 7 in view but more usually its somewhere between 3 and 5) it seems to
sit there saying "yep, there's some satellites up there" but can no longer
work out where it is. This started about a week ago. There is only one
button - the on/off button - on the receiver and I'm wondering if it's
possible to "reboot" the thing by some magic keypress on this button. Sort
of switch it on and then give four short on/off button presses in quick
succession. Or am I going to have to shell out for a new one?

TIA for any help,
Steve

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Lisa - 15 Oct 2006 17:29 GMT

not sure if your receiver uses the sirf chip or not!!! If it does then use
the sirf demo to reset it to factory defaults. I had the same problem with
my holux receiver and this software brought it back for the dead!

Go here to get the demo and learn about it.

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25575&whichpage=1

> It's probably died. My BT-77 GPS receiver seems to have suddenly become
> unable to resolve a fix. Although it can "see" satellites (I've seen it
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> TIA for any help,
> Steve

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