Re: [NTLK] Free your GPS

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Apr 20 2005 - 05:41:49 PDT

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Brian wrote:
> This is true re: space for maps, 1x0 users would prefer serial
> connection. I've used GPSLite on my 130 with a external serial port
> GPS; it does work, it's not fast... Teletype might be better on the
> slower units but I've not done that test.

In my experience TeleType is pickier on the NMEA sentences it requires... I
had tried to use it with my PCMCIA GPS card, and though it was connected
(using TeleTypeHack) and I could see sentences coming through in the debug
screen, no data was shown in the main screens...

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