997 GPS loosing lock???

Kept loosing satellites at Lake Arkabutla, Ms. this past weekend. Anyone ever experience this prob?

I had the same thing happen at Lake Talquin in FL this past weekend with my Eagle 502c...Hmmmmm

I don,t remember the 997 but my 5200,s will loose waas lock quite a bit up here on a really overcast day---garmin map 76 stays locked pretty good and its in the worst spot on the boat
Never have these problems on a clear day

My unit has lost lock a time or two but is able to correct the problem in a short period of time. It occurs mostly when there is heavy cloud cover or when I'm under a thick canopy of trees.

Mine would recover in just a short period of time, but I have never had it to lose communications like it did last weekend. The weather was great.

Our local T.V. station said there would be some interuptions last week with solar flars or something like that, it may have something to do with the satalites??
Rowdy

Global Warming maybe? El Nino perhaps?

Aliens, preparing for invasion!

Nope,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Obama.

I used my new 797 on Tuesday for the first time and had the same problem that others have talked about with the GPS side of Hummingbird. I had all my waypoints loaded on the 797 and it would either be way off or would reception all together.

Thankfully I read on this forum not to trust the Hummingbird GPS and had my Garmin 378 that I have used for three years and has never stirred me the wrong way.

LOL

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fishordie
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I used my new 797 on Tuesday for the first time and had the same problem that others have talked about with the GPS side of Hummingbird. I had all my waypoints loaded on the 797 and it would either be way off or would reception all together.
Thankfully I read on this forum not to trust the Hummingbird GPS and had my Garmin 378 that I have used for three years and has never stirred me the wrong way.
LOL

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Yes it its a shame HB puts a nice side imaging unit with a piece of 2nd hand GPS Garbage. It seems like they don't care either as they are being so-so quiet about all our requests(so much for customer service) gives us the image they are just hoping the subject will go away, canceled all my ideas of purchasing any more HB products &/or Johnson outdoors products.

After reading all the comments on this forum about the GPS side of the Hummingbird I was going to cancel my order for the 797. Well I didn't and after using it for the first time last Tuesday I wasn't even impressed with the side imaging. I had a hard time seeing anything that I knew was there. Maybe it's just a learning curve but I'm really glad I had my Garmin to find my spots.
LOL

Musta been some alien in Miss. No problem this past weekend with lock. It just still off 25-50 feet..........and still has slow response.