Hey Gary,
Thanks so much for your response!
I spun a new image last night using gpsd 3.24, and with no other changes so far it is running reliably.
Thanks for the detailed information, if the issue pops up again, I'll come back with something more useful regarding what it is exactly going on.
On a side note, now that it is not losing connection, I'm having some issues with the Python gps library. Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this level of detail.
Initially I was using the gps3 library(as I started with an example based there), but it hasn't seen update since 2016, so I've abandoned that in favor of the gps library, since it is referenced in the HOWTO.
I'm using Python 3.10 and gps 3.19
I downloaded the example2.py from the HOWTO, using
wget -o example2.py https://gpsd.io/example2.py.txt
Out of the gate, running the example generates the following error:
File "/home/jon/webserver/webserver_env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gps/client.py", line 199, in unpack
self.data = "" encoding="ascii"))
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 359, in loads
TypeError: JSONDecoder.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoding'