On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Well, if you can figure out a "non-smart ass" way of determining how a programmer has implemented a feature without any access to that programming, then get after it. You would be much smarter than the rest of us. You need to have an FMI interface, and have that said FMI interface update waypoints without creating new waypoints. > If we are going to sink about $500 into a Garmin unit then it > would help to purchase the right unit. Again you are pointing out the obvious... There are a great number of people that have been working towards finding out which units work "properly", and which don't. We have been trying the different versions that people have had access to as they come available. Scott has a list of the results of those tests. Obviously we have not yet tried every version of GPS that Garmin has released, but as we test and collect the data, we get a larger list of units that "do not pass". Perhaps before you go labeling testing procedures as "smart ass", you might do a little research about the topic at hand. The Nuvi 350 waypoint handling is an anomaly from the rest of the FMI implementation. The only way that we have of determining how the waypoints are handled is to physically test the unit. James VE6SRV
