[drats_users] GPS 18 PC Serial

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Hey Dan Im running Vista and Vista took out Hyper Terminal out of vista.  And Im connected to COM3 and the gps is on it works fine with nRoute a program for the gps 18.  Some times I can get it to talk to d-rats by turnning it off and on and restarting cpu, some times that will work other times it wont.  Also I can set the strings I want it to send out, if you let me know what d-rats likes I can put it on them strings which im sure its just the default strings for nmea compliant gps's.  Just let me know what strings D-rats likes and I will give that a try.  For some reason its not keeping the gps locked when connected to d-rats but nRoute thats no problem.  91AD connected on COM4 / GPS 18 PC Serial connected to COM3.  Thanks.
 73,
Cameron
Amateur Radio Op. ( K4ACB )
Saint Petersburg, FL
K4ACB at yahoo.com / KI4VYQ at yahoo.com 




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From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 9:42:32 AM
Subject: Re: [drats_users] GPS 18 PC Serial

> Sorry I guess I didnt hit attach. Thanks Dan

Okay, after looking at the logs, I don't see any data coming from the 
external GPS.  Are you sure the GPS is on, sending NMEA strings, and 
connected to COM3?

As a test, you might want to close D-RATS and open HyperTerminal 
connected to COM3 at 4800 baud.  You should see a constant stream of 
strings that start with "$GP".  If you don't, tell me what you see.

I assume that the GPS18 can do multiple data types like the rest of 
Garmin's product line, but I don't know how to tell it which type to use.

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Dan Smith
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