[FADCA] I need a GPS receiver that will output the signalneededby a SCS PTC-IIpro PACTOR controller.

[Bill R.]

Russ
I am most familiar with Garmin GPS, but this probably applies to other 
manufacturers as well.  Most (if not all) of the current Garmin units will 
output position data in a choice of several formats.  If you go to their 
website you can download the manual for each unit.  The information on 
interfacing is usually in an appendix.  I just looked at the GPS-60,  I am 
sure the GPS-76 series will also do this.  Older models such as the GPS-48, 
GPS-45, etc. will also output postition data.  I use a GPS-48.

Airmial picks up position data from the computer serial port.  See "GPS 
Input" and "Adding Serial Ports" in Airmail help.


Bill, K5TAS



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell Oder" <oderr at bellsouth.net>
To: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>; "Florida Amateur Digital Communication 
Association" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] I need a GPS receiver that will output the 
signalneededby a SCS PTC-IIpro PACTOR controller.


> The SCS manual says nothing about the GPS signal.  Maybe it is the Airmail 
> program that uses the data to put my position in the Emails I send using 
> Airmail.
>
> When I purchased the controller Farallon Electronics, who sells the 
> SCS-IIPRO Pactor controller said they would modify the DB9 connector that 
> goes into the serial port on my laptop to allow me to pug it into a GPS 
> receiver so my position could be reported with the Email I send using 
> Airmail.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Russ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
> To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" 
> <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [FADCA] I need a GPS receiver that will output the signal 
> neededby a SCS PTC-IIpro PACTOR controller.
>
>
> On 7/9/05, Russell Oder <oderr at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Which GPS receiver will provide the data needed and where can it be
>> obtained.
>>
>> No one in this area who sells GPS receivers seems to know what I am 
>> talking
>> about.  None of the manufactures web sites that I have found say anyting
>> about providing out put for a device that can use the data.
>>
>> I need product model etc.
>>
>
> Can you tell me what data the pactor box needs, I assume that it is in
> NMEA format, if not then we need to know what format they are looking
> for.
>
> If it is NMEA format then which sentences are they looking for?
>
> The problem is that none of them probably know what a pactor box is. But
> I bet (providing the pactor box is looking for NMEA sentences) which
> sentences you are looking for someone could ID the device you are looking
> for.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Chuck Hast
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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