[Xastir] Course & Speed problem

[Curt Mills]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Jay Hurt wrote:

> It was for N0XVB-2 (set up as mobile with local time), which was accepting
> position information with no problem, but course and speed were showing 000
> the entire time.  I was monitoring with my D7 and it showed my course/speed at
> 000 also.  I was wondering if there was a NMEA sentence that Xastir was
> looking for or if Xastir did the computation.  I know I was showing a valid
> fix, with anywhere from 6-8 sats in view and it said "SPS" at the end of the
> status line.

Xastir uses GPRMC for course/speed, GPGGA for altitude.

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