The Garmin 18x USB outputs in Garmin proprietary format only. 73-KY9K/Brian On Jul 14, 2015 3:02 PM, "Skyler F" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, My friend KD0MLV just bought a Garmin 18x USB gps (not the older > serial one) and I am trying to help him through email get his station up. > > He has been working hard trying to install drivers but not much luck has > been achieved. > > What can I tell him to help out on getting that GPS to work? I saw on an > earlier message that the serial version is someones primary GPS. > > The Garmin 18x is simply a USB gps. No serial data or power, it gets power > from USB and sends signals via USB. According to the last message on this > thread, are if there is no serial port does that mean we are out of luck? > > The Courage Classic bike tour starts this Saturday so between my BU-353 > which worked, my garmin Nuvi which I am having troubles with and his garmin > 18x we need two of those GPS's to work (or last minute find a compatible > GPS at some store) > > We are both on Ubuntu and thanks for any patience. My friend and I are > fairly new to linux and we're in high school. > > Thanks, > Skyler KD0WHB > > And by the way thanks to everyone for so much help so far. > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Curt Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm no expert on all the models of Nuvi's. I was using a Nuvi-350 in > > the Jeep connected to a Tracker2 TNC and it worked fine. However: I > > had to have the GPS in it's cradle to get power, then had to have a > > separate data cable plugged into the side which gave me NMEA serial to > > feed to/from the Tracker2. > > > > Check whether the Nuvi has a serial data cable available for it, and > > whether you have to power the Nuvi separately from that cable (I did > > for mine) to make it all work. If there's no serial data cable > > available for that model, then you won't be able to hook it to Xastir > > or a TNC. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Skyler F <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I can confirm the BU-353 GPS works with XASTIR. > > > > > > I want to help my friend with APRS now, and am wondering if the Garmin > > nuvi > > > 200w will work to send out location coordinates to xastir? > > > > > > It isn't just plug in and play like the other GPS was, so if it does > > work, > > > is there anything I have to do? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Skyler KD0WHB > > > > > > -- > > > Skyler Fennell > > > amsatnet.info > > > KDØWHB > > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Xastir mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > > > > > -- > > Curt, WE7U > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > > > -- > Skyler Fennell > amsatnet.info > KDØWHB > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
