The 880 (and 80) are new radios to most of us, but on some of the newer radios (2820/92) you have to both enable the GPS (tell the radio one is connected) and set a DV mode that tells the radio which sentences you are using and whether to use GPS or GPS-A encoding.
As well as the null modem, be sure the GPS is sending at the right baud rate (usually 4800). Kent Hufford wrote: > > > I bought an ICOM 880 at Dayton, with Ed, and others help I put the right > parameters in the first time and got on the air with the Dayton DSTAR > repeater. This is a whole new world to learn. > > Downloaded the ICOM "free" software and was able to load all the settings > from the radio, make some changes and upload. So the DATA port is working. > > I am trying to get the GPS portion of the Radio to work. I went into > the GPS > setup settings and turned (illum) on show GPS in the upper right > corner. As > I read the manual the GPS should be on steady or flashing based on whether > the radio is receiving good or bad(no?) GPS data. > > I cannot get the GPS ICON to appear. I've plugged in a NEMA RMC rs232 > working GPS (two different ones) and no ICON. I even read the small print > that it needed a NULL Modem adapter. So, I made up a 3/32 Stereo "null" > adapter crossing what would be pins 2+3 on a DB9, which is TIP and RING of > the 3.32 Stereo plug and tried that. NO GPS ICON. > > Read in the manual that sorta referred that the GPS would not work > without a > call sign. My call sign in entered, and it works cuzz I got on the Dayton > DSTAR with all the correct call signs and settings. > > I must have to "SET" another setting, got to be something simple. > > Has anyone else setup a "3rd Party"<sic> GPS on the 880 and made work? > > Thanks in advance. > > Kent > > KQ4KK > -- John D. Hays Amateur Radio Station K7VE <http://k7ve.org> PO Box 1223 Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: j...@hays.org <sip:j...@hays.org> Email: j...@hays.org <mailto:j...@hays.org> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
