Heavy310
New Member
I recently (about two months ago) purchased a shiny new Garmin 4208 marine GPS. I installed it myself and everything worked fine up until about three weeks ago when one day it took about 15+ minutes to finally fine a statelite and start tracking. Since that day it has not tracked at all....All I get is the little guestion mark on the boat indicating that it is searching for the statelite. Yesterday I went back to westmarine and they gave me a new head unit and it did the same thing. I'm thinking that the antenna cable may have gotten pinched where the cable comes through my arch into the side of the boat because it was a tight fit when I installed it and now when I access the cable through the arch I cannot pull the cable at all, it seems to be clamped where the wire enters the boat from the arch. OR is it some idiotic thing that I'm doing. I've read the manual back and forth and can't find anything that I'm doing wrong. Tomorrow I'm going down to the marina and loosen up the arch from the side of the boat which will allow me to pull the cable through the access point and I may find the wire is pinched, if it's not I'm in big trouble. Anyone with similar trouble with this unit or similar unit.