Just in case anyone's interested or encounters a similar problem, my GPS
receiver is now back up and running again. I took the battery out of the
unit for 48 hours and then put it back in and fired the thing up. I left it
switched on in the garden for 30 minutes doing its "so where am I" thing and
then linked the PDA to it (bluetooth) and bingo! Perfect.

Why do electric/electronic things have to contain so much magic and give the
outward impression of being perfectly all right (emissions of smoke and
light excluded) when they're not?

Steve

"Steve" <steve@DELETEMEFIRSTzord.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Just in case anyone's interested or encounters a similar problem, my GPS
> receiver is now back up and running again. I took the battery out of the
> unit for 48 hours and then put it back in and fired the thing up. I left
it
> switched on in the garden for 30 minutes doing its "so where am I" thing
and
> then linked the PDA to it (bluetooth) and bingo! Perfect.
>
> Why do electric/electronic things have to contain so much magic and give
the
> outward impression of being perfectly all right (emissions of smoke and
> light excluded) when they're not?
>
> Steve
>
>

Makes you think.
Lucky Francis Drake did'nt rely on GPS )