Of course not. That was the point of the original sidebar post. You can mount a large permanent gps antenna under the fiberglass top without any signal loss and no threat to having someone liberate it or have leaking holes into your interior. Hows UMASSD (my alma mater) doing?
tim in san jose
>From: Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU> >Reply-To: Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: GPS in a Westy? - sidebar >Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:35:10 -0500 > >Hi, > >I use a Garmin ETrex Legend and mount it on a cellphone holder on the >instrument cluster between the speedo and tach on my 87. > >On my last road trip to Key West, while my kids were driving, I sat in the >back with my GPS sitting on the table next to my laptop (running Delorme >software). I didn't have any problem loosing signal through the fiberglass >top. > > >Ric
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