[drats_users] Problem sending GPS coordinates

[Terry Breitenfeldt]

Thanks for the input. The GPS is a Garmin Street Pilot III.  I'm using a 9pin Serial connector, connected to COM1.
I did see an error message (down in the right hand corner of the Map screen) that said "unable to connect to COM Port".
 
The GPS setup screen gives a few options, but I selected NMEA.  The baud rate is fixed at 4800 and
can't be changed.
 
Terry
 



> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:17:59 -0700> From: dsmith at danplanet.com> To: drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> Subject: Re: [drats_users] Problem sending GPS coordinates> > Thanks for chiming in here. I don't actually use the external GPS stuff > myself much, and I only use it with a Garmin eTrex, which I think is > pretty simple.> > > Check to make sure the Garmin is sending the NMEA data in the correct > > format. For example, my Garmin GPSMAP76CSx transmits NMEA 0183 version > > 3.01 -- I'm not sure exactly what that means but it could mean the > > difference between communicating and not, if D-RATS is looking for it in > > some other NMEA format. My GPS can also transmit ASCII or in a Garmin > > proprietary format. Maybe ASCII would work better? I do not know what > > the supported datarate is so I would have to test it to see if it > > supports sending data at 4800bps.> > It definitely needs to be ASCII, and NMEA. I'm not sure what the > differences in NMEA versions are, but my parsing is pretty simplistic.> > Terry, if you still can't get it to work and you think it's all correct, > send me a debug log and I should be able to figure out why it's failing.> > -- > Dan Smith> dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/> www.danplanet.com> KK7DS> > _______________________________________________> drats_users mailing list> drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users
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