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Subject: [RFI] off topic but don't know where else to post this question
From: wb2aio--- via RFI <rfi@contesting.com>
Reply-to: "wb2aio@yahoo.com" <wb2aio@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:07:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Last Saturday I was attempting to attend a hamfest. The evening before, I put 
the address in my Garmin GPS so it would be ready in the morning. I use this 
GPS almost daily as my job has me going to places all over in a 50 mile radius. 
When I took off for it, I knew which way to start off. Turned the GPS on and it 
wouldn't start, but just gave an icon of it being connected to a computer. This 
often happens in the start of my day, but usually is ready to go by the time I 
leave the parking lot. When this happened I just kept on driving in the 
direction I knew I'd start, figuring it'd soon wake up and do its job. It never 
did. Later that evening, it was ready to do its job again. And worked fine when 
I needed it for work once more last week. My question is, was this related to 
the massive computer glitch that was in the news for all the missed/cancelled 
flights the next few days?  I actually had a back up GPS in the car but since 
the main one was hung up with this icon, I couldn't access it to get the 
address where I was headed to put in the working one and I didn't have the 
address written down since my GPS usually works fine. I got fairly close to the 
fest but never did make it. So was my problem related to the computer problems 
going on?73, 
Kathy W2NK
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