Garmin seems to be looking for partners. Scott has been at the leading edge of using Garmins with APRS. Here is Garmin's web page for partners, it has a link to sign up: http://www8.garmin.com/solutions/pnd/partners.jsp
The "helpful" (but smart ass) remarks about just going out and purchasing everything that Garmin makes is not how amateur radio goes about things. What does one look for in FMI? What parameters can be used to window out units that would not meet APRS needs? If we are going to sink about $500 into a Garmin unit then it would help to purchase the right unit. --- In [email protected], "k7ybz" <k7...@...> wrote: > > > Greg, > > You are right. There are a number of Garmin units that have FMI capability > and nearly all have the newer version (newer than used in the 350) of the FMI > software which leaves the breadcrumb trail. One additional note, the new > units also have the traffic option on the same cable which makes the price of > the cable near the $100 mark as compared to the $21 for the cable used with > the Nuvi 350. > > As Scott pointed out in a post this last weekend (look at the messages), > Garmin is beta testing a FMI software upgrade for the 1200/1300/1400 series > that looks promising but still has work that needs to be done. Partner may be > the wrong word but Scott IS trying to work with Garmin on issues for the HAM > side of things. > > Larry > K7YBZ > > --- In [email protected], "Greg" <n9nwo@> wrote: > > > > I have been searching through Garmin's web site. Under the commerical > > options, there are a large number of Nuvi which have fleetmanagement. How > > do we determine which ones will work as well as the Nuvi 350 did? > > > > Any way that Scott and Argent could become partners with Garmin? > > >
