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Open Water Swim - worked great (OWS)

I did an open water swim across a lake, 419m there and it recorded 418m return, my friend with a Fenix 5 who swam alongside me had zig zaggy tracking.

The 945 performed perfectly. This was using the beta GPS 2.42 with GPS and Glonass

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Ante over 5 years ago +1

I did my first ow swim with my new 945 today. Fw 2.50, GPS 2.30, GPS+Glonass. Distance was perfect compared with phone in safety boy. See the two different tracs below, perfect in line! Very happy.
Quinnman over 5 years ago in reply to UNPANX +1

Well unfortunately I did 3 more swims, only 1 worked the other 2 were totally inaccurate. I swam for 10mins and it showed 115m. So disappointed 2 good tracks, 2 bad tracks so far. My 920XT was not perfect…

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0 Quinnman over 5 years ago in reply to UNPANX

Every time I post the swim image, it gets deleted?? It was not a straight line but contains multiple points

0 Garmin-Blake over 5 years ago in reply to Quinnman

You could also try a public link to the activity, if you're comfortable with that of course.

0 Quinnman over 5 years ago in reply to BeneGi

0 jmto over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

1000 is pretty small sample set. Of course collecting it all by yourself is hard, but that was the point.

We don't know at which percentage these OWS fails. Having that data would help.

My first was OWS was pretty ok too, one spike to land, but not total failure, but then I've seen the fails, even with the beta GPS firmware.

0 UNPANX over 5 years ago in reply to Quinnman

this really looks like a good track. Would be interesting how the track looks like when you do a non stop swim

0 Quinnman over 5 years ago in reply to UNPANX

I will be out this weekend again, I will let you know

0 Browner40 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Salem, OR... I was swimming at a reservoir a little higher up in the Cascade foothills. I was actually surprised that the water was so warm, but the weather has been pretty nice the last couple months.

0 Browner40 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Are you up at JBLM? I see by your profile pic you were with 82nd, I did a few turns with 1st ID and 1st CAV many moons ago.

0 nick.d.barnes over 5 years ago

Since I've had beta GPS 2.42 (GPS and GLONASS), I've managed to record all my swims, but I not convinced that they are accurate. 2 laps of my local lake last night gives very different results and pace to that that I would expect (and had with my previous 920)

0 Ante over 5 years ago

I did my first ow swim with my new 945 today. Fw 2.50, GPS 2.30, GPS+Glonass. Distance was perfect compared with phone in safety boy. See the two different tracs below, perfect in line! Very happy.