Mike,
This may be a bit of semantics but for the sake of argument if the USB
interface on the Garmin GPS isn't serial. then what is it?
USB is a serial interface hence Universal Serial Bus!
I think the problem becomes which class of device your attempting to use
with which
Your correct, USB does stand for Universal Serial Bus, but it is just an
unfortunate similarity in naming.
The (simplified) definition of Serial, is to send 1 bit after the next. Since
the USB interface works in that manner, they felt it acceptable to name it
Universal Serial Bus. The hard
Hi There,
One extra little bit is that USB is a master/slave system. One end
is the master, the other the slave. In most cases you can see this as
master ends are (usually) the flat four pin whilst slaves are
(usually) the square one. Using this relationship you can get away
with just
You are probably not going to be able to make this work with just a cable.
USB has a host end and device end. The chips that implement those end serve
only one of the two functions. It's not like a serial cable that you just
have to get the right pin-out on each end. Your GPS is a device end
I use a Magellan 320 with a home made cable - just solders to the back
of the GPS receiver - took a cell fone charger to replace the
batteries in the Magellan - there is some info in either the files or
links here. At home (fixed location) I use a program called NMEA GEN
to simulate a GPS
Jim wrote:
Thanks for the sync cable info ne? what type
of GPS can I get (not a lot of $$$) that can
directly plug into ID800
A couple of years ago I built up a HamHUD II ...
and picked up a Deluo GPS device from Jason
KE4NYV out at the Dayton Hamvention.
I think it was under US $50.00.
Jim wrote:
Thanks for the sync cable info ne? what type of GPS can I get (not
a lot of $$$) that can directly plug into ID800
I use a Garmin Geko 201 with a serial cable on my IC92AD. It needs to be set
into NMEA mode @ 4800bps (default is Garmin Binary @ 9600bps). I also have a
GPS
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the sync cable info ne? what type of GPS can I get (not
a lot of $$$) that can directly plug into ID800
Direct Plug-In is the stickler, you will probably have to build or
buy a cable with the right connectors.
