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

[Russell Oder]

Bill, thanks. That is the information I needed.

Thanks to all of you who replied.

Russ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill R." <velasail93 at comcast.net>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" 
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] I need a GPS receiver that will output the 
signalneededbya SCS PTC-IIpro PACTOR controller.


> 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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