Just got my navi seems like a great toy, updated the firmware to 0608T. One question when I turn it on after a short time I get a window that asks me "TRAVEL LONG Yes or No" can't find any reference in the manual for this, dose anyone know what it means? If I press the small button it goes away and dosn't come back untill the next time I turn it on.
Most GPS's will ask this, usually to see if you've travelled hundreds of km's, so it can decide whether to do a longer search for satellites.
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Originally posted by Jman
Thanks hardie,
So is it best to answer no or just ignore and press escape?
Just to be clear, it's yes we answer no, unless you have traveled a long distance, (10s of kilometers I think)
The very first time you turn it on it will not know where it is. Answering yes will get it to do a search from scratch. It will take just as long if it has moved a long distance anyhow. If it asks this when you have only moved a short distance it will usually get a fix quicker if you answer no. At least that is my experience.
In recent months I have sailed between the Swan River and Mandurah with the Navi. Initially I had some problems with it intermittently failing to write to the SD card. They are sorted now. Dr Chalko’s advice to format the card, in the Navi, several times (5+) in succession, quickly revealed the dodgy cards. Some formatted first and second time then failed subsequently. Since those cards have been relegated to cameras etc I have had no problems with the Navi writing to cards [fingers crossed]. There are about 34 minutes of latitude (65 km) between the Swan River and Mandurah. I have always responded with NO to the travel long question and never had an issue. I have had more problems when the last fix was between my house and the Swan (2 or 3 km).
That is my experience – for what it’s worth
Cheers
25
25,
when you had card problems where you recording .bin files or .txt???
Think somebody mentioned the .bin files where more problematic.
Re: card problems.
You may want to read this
wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaviGPS (GT-11)
Basically
"Not all memory cards work in a NaviGPS. It is known that only 2.85v cards work. Any other voltage will not work, however it can be difficult to discover what voltage any particular card is.
Known to work
The following cards are known to work:
SanDisk Ultra II - 1Gb/2Gb
SanDisk Ultra II Plus (with integral USB connector) - 512Mb
SanDisk Ultra II Plus (with integral USB connector) - 1.0Gb
SanDisk 512Mb, 1Gb
Panasonic branded 16Mb
Impact branded 256Mb
Kingston Ultimate 133x 512MB
Known to NOT work
"Canon" branded 32Mb
"Jessops" branded 512Mb (corrupts see below)
"Palm" branded 128Mb (corrupts see below)
SanDisk TransFlash 32MB micro-SD with SanDisk microSD/TransFlash to SD Adapter
Kingston Technology 2GB Secure Digital (SD) Card
Troubleshooting
The NaviGPS expects a FAT-16 file system so don't expect cards with more than 2GB to work.
The NaviGPS is a bit fussy about the formatting of the file system. If you have problems, try reformatting the card using the NaviGPS's built-in memory card format command. Cards formatted using Linux seem to be more prone to problems (try formatting the entire card without a partition table because that's how the NaviGPS formats it).
There have been a couple of reported cases where the unit has appeared to work fine, but has not created any track log files. Try running chkdsk. The files might be there but just not visible in the file system directory.
As the data on the SD card is just NMEA ASCII text, it can be converted to GPX (or any other format) with GPSBabel.
Some PDAs running Windows Mobile will automatically wipe a NaviGPS formatted SD card on insertion, no questions asked. Test this before you have important data (the above comment about extracting data in Linux will get it back again). The issue with this may be using a card that's not seen a Windows environment before it's used. If a card is used in a Windows Mobile PDA and then put back in the NaviGPS, all appears to be fine and you don't appear to lose your data when it's next inserted in the PDA. Someone should verify this is the case and add a comment here please. "
This was writen before Tom and others started organising software updates with Locosys so it may not be 100% now. But to be safe ,it would be a good place to start.
Yo
Toshiba 1GB High speed type SD card seems to work fine, formated several times as recomended, only got that one because it was 5 bucks cheaper than the SanDisk brand
one day we will have some wind in Melbourne and I will get the Navi on the water 
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I've heard that the Navi has a system of beeps to tell how fast you are going. I was wondering if the beeps can be set to act as a starting watch for when I'm course racing. Thanks
