Every time I’ve used a GPS unit this term there have been problems. The nature of the problems vary, but generally, they stem from a number of issues:
- No one charges them and people return them with about 5 minutes of battery life left so you have enough to load your data dictionary and start walking to do your survey when the unit dies.
- If there’s a hardware problem, people just turn them back in and get a different one, so no one knows when a unit is having a problem
- What did you expect when you put Windows in a GPS unit?
- There are 7 units and 40+ people in the class
- can we ever move away from COM ports?
Instead of being halfway done with my survey I’m scouring Trimble’s website for help with determining why COM3 is in use by some phantom program that isn’t in the task list and why the GPS won’t connect to the PocketPC. I wish I’d been given one of the Geo3 units. They at least work consistently.