Just to throw my 2 cents worth in, I think it was Stephen Smith < [email protected]> who knew about this... there were two versions of the earthmate and one of them could be tricked into NMEA mode, the other stuck in rockwell binary. Wes --- Hitler gave great speeches too!
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 15:17, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, k7ybz wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "w6cjq" <w6...@...> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Someone gave me this takes 4 AA batteries and works with street atlas > 6 any ideas if this will work with a tracker 2 unit? > >> > > > > > > As I remember from years ago, the word was all Delorme GPS units > > use a proprietary format. You don't have anything to lose by > > trying it and seeing what you get. > > Not all Delorme units: The "tripmate" was easy to get going, which > was the earlier bright yellow Delorme unit. It wanted a string, > "ASTRAL" I think, to be sent to it, which it put out periodically on > it's TX line. The easiest way was to wire pins 2 to 3 and it would > talk to itself, receive the string it was looking for, and start > putting out NMEA sentences. Some people put in a momentary switch > for that, others wired them together permanently then only wired one > wire and ground to the laptop or tracker from there. > > Unfortunately you've got the later model which I think put out > Rockwell protocol sentences? Do a Google search for "earthmate > APRS" and see if someone's solved the problem. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
