On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Alex Carver <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Yeah, Kenwood decided to echo as soon as the sentence shows up so there's > no Control-E operation at all. It just pops out of the serial port. I got > my poor D700 confused one day with that little "$" experiment. It just > couldn't keep up with my Garmin 12XL which is transmitting five sentences > per second. The main problem was the system was trying to keep up with two > data streams at once (the APRS data coming in plus the GPS data) and the > bandwidth was just too low for that. > > Now if everything could have run at 115200 baud with a huge GPS buffer and > some more processor power it probably wouldn't have been much of a problem. > Save a second worth of GPS data and then blast it out at high speed. > > So, back to my idea of testing my TH-D72 with minicom...if I manually do the steps in the THD7 startup script, I should be seeing GPS data appearing periodically in my terminal window without me having to enter Control-E? 73, Harry Bloomberg W3YJ [email protected] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
