[drats_users] GPS antenna for Drats

[rsafaya]

Dan:
I had done some research on Garmin GPS for 92AD, and found 60csx has NMEA 
output. Its cost is prohibitive for  that reason have not purchased yet.
Regards.
Ravi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Smith" <dsmith at danplanet.com>
To: "Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [drats_users] GPS antenna for Drats


>> I ordered a Garmin GPS 18 USB and received it today and it would not
>> work. Looking further the GPS 18 USB only has a Garmin output and not
>> the NMEA output. The other GPS 18s had both the Garmin and the NMEA
>> output.
>
> Ouch.  I have a serial-only GPS18 and it works just fine.  I thought you
> could select NMEA or Garmin mode with a utility of some kind...
>
>> I did a search for a Garmin to NMEA converter and found a program
>> from Franson called GpsGate. It does several things. One is
>> converting Garmin to NMEA and two making the output available on
>> several com ports. It came with a 14 day free trial. I downloaded it.
>> It works and I am happy.
>
> I think that a couple of other people are using GPSGate for various
> reasons.  I've not looked for a Garmin protocol spec, but I could see
> about adding support to D-RATS for the Garmin protocol directly if the
> USB one really doesn't support NMEA.
>
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