Photosbykev
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- Roadhawk HD, Mobius
Hi
Has anyone else noticed their Satnav satellite signal being degraded when their dashcam is running?
My TomTom 1005 live satnav normally has a GPS signal strength around 80% with the dashcam turned off. With the dashcam on this drops to 70% but still works fine. When I plug the External
GPS antenna into the dashcam the TomTom gps signal drops below 60% and struggles to maintain the gps lock.
I thought I might be creating a Faraday cage effect by running the dashcam gps antenna around the windscreen frame so I shortened the antenna cable down to 6" and mounted the antenna adjacent to the camera. This gave a small improvement in the TomTom gps signal but not enough for reliable use
I'm just about to give up on the Roadhawk and look for an alternative unit![Frown :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png)
Regards
Kev
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4
Has anyone else noticed their Satnav satellite signal being degraded when their dashcam is running?
My TomTom 1005 live satnav normally has a GPS signal strength around 80% with the dashcam turned off. With the dashcam on this drops to 70% but still works fine. When I plug the External
GPS antenna into the dashcam the TomTom gps signal drops below 60% and struggles to maintain the gps lock.
I thought I might be creating a Faraday cage effect by running the dashcam gps antenna around the windscreen frame so I shortened the antenna cable down to 6" and mounted the antenna adjacent to the camera. This gave a small improvement in the TomTom gps signal but not enough for reliable use
I'm just about to give up on the Roadhawk and look for an alternative unit
![Frown :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png)
Regards
Kev
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4