Apropos of nothing, we have a Trimble 10X GPS/Loran on Arione. It's been in the cockpit coaming for well over 20 years. It no longer works (we long ago removed all of the "guts" of the system), but we've left it there as a sort of historical artifact…
On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Eric T. wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
