GPS ?

Post by **Sea Fox** » July 30th, 2006, 4:33 pm

I want to upgrade my sonar and a combo unit is not that much more $. My question is my GPS now has a ext. antenna and I dont know if I get a combo with a internal antenna will they interfear with each other? I kinda like the Idea of having two gps,s.

Post by **Fisherman989** » July 30th, 2006, 4:43 pm

Everybody needs 2 gps in a boat. One might fail..like my son's did down at Keaton Beach last year. He got lost...in a pea soup fog..after his gps failed. Only the aid of a compass saved his hiney...he headed due east till he hit land...at Dekle Beach. That's where we found him...anchored...at the end of a pier..with his wife blowing on a whistle. Turned out to be an electrical connection problem with the gps.
I don't think the two antennas will even know the other is on board.

leonreno · Post by **leonreno** » July 30th, 2006, 11:55 pm

Yeah, I can't see how they would interfer with each other, the antennas are only receivers and do not transfer any signal.

scubasteve · Post by **scubasteve** » August 13th, 2006, 3:11 pm

GPS antennas will not interfer with each other. Just as was previously said they are receivers not transmitters. No reason you can't have a back up unit. Now transducers are a different story, transducers of the same frequency would interfer with correct depth readings.