Yeah that's true. If one had the unit in NMEA for one purpose and then
tries to connect up to the Garmin maps program it will fail.
After much cussing and swearing, one might remember to switch it
back to "Garminspeak".
Kurt (Been there and done that) KC9LDH :-)
--- On Fri, 1/21/11, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Help with TH-D72
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, January 21, 2011, 1:29 PM
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM,
> Kurt Savegnago <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If the GPS "only" does "Garminspeak", they'll be out
> of luck.
>
> Well yeah, hence the "can speak NMEA" qualification.
>
> I'm no Garmin expert, but in my experience if a Garmin has
> an RS232
> interface it speaks NMEA. There are certainly Garmin
> units that don't
> speak NMEA, but since they don't have RS232 interfaces it's
> a moot
> point.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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