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K4NNW

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  1. I can't blame that person. I do like the 2mi guideline, especially when puzzles make so little sense that the coordinates appear to be way off where they should be.
  2. They list them as USB and NMEA 0183 compatible... IF they are truly NMEA compatible, the APRS crowd (myself included) will love these things.
  3. There are a couple possibilities. One is the 78, which is like the 62 with a real NMEA interface (old-school, 4 pin connector), and the 640, which is more suited for a car than for handheld usage. I've had a 62ST for a while now, and I tried a few times to get it to spit out NMEA data, but with no luck. I'm glad to see that somebody has had success with it.
  4. Yes. I was hoping to use this unit with a ham radio for APRS, but I could not get it to stream NMEA data. I'll be getting a 78s with a real serial port soon. I wish the 62 kept the 4-pin connector that the 60 had.
  5. Used, in good condition, with USB cable, power cable, carabiner clip, and original box. Local offers considered (central and Southside Virginia). $350 shipped.
  6. Have you tried Garmin's BaseCamp software yet? That's what I've been using with mine for quite some time now.
  7. Either use a browswer other than Firefox, or downgrade to an earlier version of Firefox. As I recall, the Garmin Communicator plug-in is not supported in the newer versions. I found that out the hard way.
  8. Today, I finally got the time and hardware together to poke around and figure out what's going on with this thing. Since I don't have a Windows machine with a serial port, I fired up CuteCom and hooked up a cable to my Garmin 276C. As predicted, I started getting data easily. This is what showed up: SK\0xd5\0xd4\0x15\0xd2\0x93\0x93\0x0925)\0x8f\0xe9 %EU\0xc5\0x8ab\0x8ab\0x1a\0xb1\0xa9\0xcd\0xdd5)G:A\0x05A\0x09\0xb1Y\0xb1Y\0xb1\0xb1\0xb19\0xb1\0x05\0xb1Y\0xb1\0xb1\0xb1\0xb1\0xb1\0xb1\0xb1\0xb19\0xa9\0xdd\0x195)\0xff$GPRMC,,V,,,,,,,220712,8.5,W,N*23 $GPRMB,V,,,,,,,,,,,,A,N*13 $GPGGA,,,,,,0,00,,,M,,M,,*66 $GPGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*1E $GPGSV,3,1,12,02,68,007,00,03,00,336,00,05,63,212,00,06,00,317,00*74 $GPGSV,3,2,12,07,00,086,00,08,00,120,00,09,00,221,00,10,55,052,00*77 $GPGSV,3,3,12,13,18,055,00,17,08,130,00,26,04,168,00,29,16,313,00*7F However, after double-checking my pinouts, I fired up the 62 to see what would happen... nothing. It didn't matter what mode I used. I didn't get a thing out of it. By the way, I was using Garmin part #010-11131-00 for this, with 13.8VDC input. I tried to order Garmin part #010-10572-00 earlier in the week, but nobody has it, since it's been discontinued. Surprise, surprise. Requiring external power to even have a hope for serial data is a deal-breaker. It appears that a 78s will be in my future.
  9. No I haven't. What programs might those be?
  10. Yes, it had a fix, and no, I could not send data to it.
  11. Yes, that IS in reference to yellow being the ground. However, when I measure any voltage using the black wire as ground, I only get voltage in two places. I get a steady -6VDC on the yellow wire, and supply voltage on the red. I wish I could hunt down the schematic for this cable, since I don't have the color codes for it... either that, or they've become rather lost.
  12. Yellow, methinks. I'll check it again when I get home next, but the cable is 100 miles from me at the moment.
  13. I'll see if I can order one of those this weekend. The only trouble appears to be that this cable has been discontinued. Ironically, one of the responses I got from Garmin was a link to this thread.
  14. Since it appears that nobody has resolved this issue, I e-mailed Garmin product support to see if they had any idea what's going on. For the record, I just updated the unit to v4.30 last night. This is what I sent them: "After noticing a menu option for NMEA input/output (setup-> sysetem-> interface), I purchased a serial data/power cable (part number 010-11131-00) and attempted to interface the unit to some APRS hardware with known working serial ports (Argent Data Systems Tracker2 and Kenwood TH-D7A, to be precise). Neither of these (nor my computer's terminal program) would recognize any data coming from the unit with the interface set to NMEA in/out with WPL/RTE sentences on. However, I've noticed a steady 4.8VDC on the white wire and 6VDC on the green wire, but only when hooked up to an external 12V power supply. With no power applied, there is no voltage on either of these. Curiously, there is no change in either of these values when WPL, RTE sentences are turned off, or when the device is set to any other interface mode. That being said, does this cable require external power to be present, does it require the GPS to be on battery power, or can it work both ways? Also, does this output at 4800bps, or 9600?" I'm hoping that there is a way to extract data out of this thing, especially without external power. If not, I'll probably buy a 78 eventually and do something with the 62. It's a shame that they dropped the ball on this one.
  15. Have any of y'all tried using serial data with v4.30 yet? I tried it a few versions back, with no luck. I may try again and see what I can do.
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