I won a GPS System!!! I am a member at www.sportsmansocietymagazine.com and I always enter into the monthly drawings at the beginning of every month. I entered last month and WON!!!! I haven't had a real chance to play with it yet, but I have loaded a map of all the surrounding counties I visit and plugged it into the car cigarette adapter, and watched it on my way to work. It seems to be surprising accurate. I have owned a GPS since the age of 15, and this one works a lot better than my old one. The closest my old GPS system, a Garmin GPS 12, ever got me to a waypoint was 100ft. This system I have gotten it as close as 10 feet. The reason behind this remarkable accuracy is that it is also a WAAS receiver. I had to look what that was up online and I found this.
"WAAS consists of approximately 25 ground reference stations positioned across the United States that monitor GPS satellite data. Two master stations, located on either coast, collect data from the reference stations and create a GPS correction message. This correction accounts for GPS satellite orbit and clock drift plus signal delays caused by the atmosphere and ionosphere. The corrected differential message is then broadcast through one of two geostationary satellites, or satellites with a fixed position over the equator. The information is compatible with the basic GPS signal structure, which means any WAAS-enabled GPS receiver can read the signal."
Does it sound amazing to you? Yeah me too. The remarkable thing is it does it all under 1sec. And they can't speed our Internet up why? The unit I won, is a Lowrance iFinder HUNT, it and the acceories I received with it are valued at $349.95. Can you tell, I am excited?