Terje Mathisen wrote: > John Ioannidis wrote: >> Out of curiosity: what is wrong with the Garmin GPS 18LVC that >> someone would like to look at an alternative? At < $70, it's >> practically free. > > Absolutely nothing wrong with it. > > I personally got one to work in a couple of hours, including the drive > to the parts store to pick up an RS232 connector and a short USB > cable. > > The USB cable has 4 wires, with +5V on Red (Black is Ground), so I > simply soldered the relevant Garmin wires to TX/RX/DCD/PWR/GND, > connecting the USB Red/Black wires to the last two. > > That's all I needed, and the GPS "just works" like this. :-)
After a lot of looking around, I think I'm going to go with this one as well. Thanks to everyone who replied with advice and suggestions. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
