• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

GPS COM ports in Windows 7

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For the second consecutive Windows 7 laptop I've owned, I'm having the problem of the GPS ports changing with every boot-up.

Franson GPSGate assigns different virtual COM ports every startup, and likewise StreetAtlas shows different COM ports in the settings drop-down. Sometimes, the StreetAtlas COM port list won't match any in the GPSGate list.

For example, GPSGate might assign COM 2, 4, 6 and 8 and StreetAtlas has COM 3,5,7 and 10 in the available list. The next boot-up, the COM numbers in both places will be different. The result is some startups result in the GPS working, some don't.

It's like it's not saving the COM settings, and just rolling the dice on the COM ports every time I boot the laptop up.

Has anyone else has this issue?
 
Have you tried deleting the file in the "Instances" folder in Windows where the GPSGate settings are stored? After that reboot and then run the setup wizard again to establish new settings. GPSGate is somewhat finicky for me too. Whenever I boot up and a position has been acquired, I have to open the program from the system tray, click the setup wizard icon, then cancel out of it in order to get it running with a signal that can be shared. Before I do that though it obtains a GPS position, but isn't sharing it with other programs until I nudge it (as in wake it up). Please let me know if you have this corrected yet or not.

EDIT: Here's a link on the GPSGate support forum for the background on why you would want to delete the "Instances" folder.
 
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