Back in 1990 at Trimble I got a call from a guy at some university who wanted to verify that our 10X model Loran C/GPS receiver could accept waypoints over it's I/O ports, and whether there was any way to send a Route that way too. I assured him that our unit would accept both waypoints and routes that way (so we could download a customer's data, perform a master reset or even swap out boards and return the repaired unit with all data restored). Then he asked if there was a way to select a route for navigation via the same I/O port. I replied "No, why do you ask?". "Because we are trying to build a method of remote navigation of out vessel without the intervention of "local humans". After a few more questions I told him how to do the required actions with the provision that he call me back with a report when he had tried it out.
I got the call in the fall. It had worked just fine until there had been a nearby lightening strike at which time the unit had to be reset by a crewmember and a route input and selected again... Email me off list if you want more details... Eric Thompson San Jose, California [email protected] _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
