Jay Petzold
Jet Boat Junkie
- Messages
- 154
- Reaction score
- 88
- Points
- 137
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2015
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 24
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any other reasons I hit 80, lol II assume Connext was on while trailering.
until tonight top speed was 51 mphPerhaps on the delivery truck?
If your not first your lastI suppose it could happen. Maybe he likes making left hand turns so he cranks the starboard throttle? We know he likes going fast. Like Ricky Bobby.
With the Connext systems using GPS, you have to remember that the government controls the satellites and use a drift method in them, this is in case a bad guy tries to use our system to send us a bombe etc. This drift typically fluctuates on average 3 to 5 feet per second, our GPS systems use WAAS as a correction which is another signal sent out to provide that for us recreational users etc. Now the system does get random tests etc and can jump up to 900 yards difference in a split second, if the WAAS signal dropped for a few seconds, I could see your speedo getting a crazy number for speed because your boat is not where it thinks it is, then it is... hope this makes a little sense of the issue. This used to be a bad downfall of GPS 15 years ago but it has become much more stable today, 20 years ago when I was part of an R&D team we were developing a tracking system and would get speed errors of up to several hundred mph difference, when 911 happened and the fed pulled the WAAS signal all together for a week, we saw inaccuracies of over a mile as far as present location.
With the Connext systems using GPS, you have to remember that the government controls the satellites and use a drift method in them, this is in case a bad guy tries to use our system to send us a bombe etc. This drift typically fluctuates on average 3 to 5 feet per second, our GPS systems use WAAS as a correction which is another signal sent out to provide that for us recreational users etc. Now the system does get random tests etc and can jump up to 900 yards difference in a split second, if the WAAS signal dropped for a few seconds, I could see your speedo getting a crazy number for speed because your boat is not where it thinks it is, then it is... hope this makes a little sense of the issue. This used to be a bad downfall of GPS 15 years ago but it has become much more stable today, 20 years ago when I was part of an R&D team we were developing a tracking system and would get speed errors of up to several hundred mph difference, when 911 happened and the fed pulled the WAAS signal all together for a week, we saw inaccuracies of over a mile as far as present location.