[Xastir] Course & Speed problem

[Jay Hurt]

>From: Curt Mills <archer at eskimo.com>
>To: Jay Hurt <n0xvb at hotmail.com>
>CC: xastir at xastir.org
>Subject: Re: [Xastir] Course & Speed problem
>Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:42:29 -0800 (PST)
>
>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.
>
>--
>Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
>http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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Thanks Curt, I've not been able to get back to it and see what's going on, 
not sure if this week will work well either.  (Switched to new department at 
work so I've been a bit preoccupied!)

I'll let you know what I find.
Jay
73 de N0XVB

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