[FARC] Kenwood/Garmin GPS Prob

[Bob Moroney]

Thanks for the info, Erik.  Your experience seems to correspond with the 
curriculum at the "It's Always Something" school of interfacing stuff, 
which I suspect we've all attended and paid tuition to...

On the Deluo receiver you mentioned, inside the trunk is some pretty 
impressive performance.  I've used a couple of GPS units that lose it  
under a sparse tree canopy, not to mention a bunch of sheet metal.  
(Magellan has been worse than Garmin for this in my experience.)  It 
sounds like the Deluo has a flexible interface along with a good price.  
Do you know whether it will talk directly to the Kenwood GPS-capable rigs?

73, Bob K9CMR
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Erik Russell wrote:
> A couple of other things to watch out for... Even if a
> USB pin-out diagram can be found you need to verify
> that the USB can transmit location data (I assume in
> the NMEA format) and that the USB is not solely for
> the loading of maps and POIs.  For my APRS experiment
> I ran into a different problem.  I thought about using
> my Garmin 60CX with a serial output and the GPS does
> transmit the NMEA format; however, the GPS is locked
> at 9600 baud and the device using the output required
> 4800 baud.  Though, if you have a radio with a TNC you
> should be able to configure the TNC to accept
> something other than 4800 baud.
>
> There are some inexpensive GPS receive only devices
> out there.  Once that comes to mind is the Deluo
> GPS(http://www.deluogps.com/prods_universal.html).  It
> runs on 5 v and I have found it has a good sat lock
> even from the inside of my trunk.
>
> -- Erik, K8ESR
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