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That's my problem - it doesn't pick up a decent signal on the dash, so I have it mounted outside. I have a knack for getting the USB port stuck in the door jamb, thereby crushing it.
If you get a GPS receiver with the new SIRF Star III chipset you should be able to get a strong satellite signal no matter where you put it. I had mine plugged directly into my USB port on my laptop and was not even using the cable until after three months of shaking on the road my USB port eventually got loosened and started to give me errors. After tightening the USB port back up again so it works properly again, I started using the cable instead to plug it into the laptop since the cable is much lighter than the receiver and so now I just throw the GPS receiver up on the dash, but it doesn’t matter where I put it inside the cab, because with the new SIRF star III chipset it is sensitive enough to pick up a strong signal no matter where I put it, inside, outside, on the floor, on the seat, on the back bunks, on the dash, anywhere and everywhere.