[Xastir] NMEA GPS data duplication

Fred Hillhouse fmhillhouse at comcast.net
Wed Jul 1 16:44:44 EDT 2009


> The ideal would be if the D700 passed *all* NMEA strings 
> without being told which one to select from the GPS stream.  
> But it doesn't.  And at this point, Xastir has no way of 
> doing periodic commands to the TNC to change the type.

Interesting! The other day I was playing with a D7 (borrowed) and when I
turned on GPSMON and set GPSTEXT to GPRMC it sent all the sentences anyway.
The manual mentions the GPMC string is used only for the LTEXT command.

Of course the D7 is not the D700.


Best regards,
Fred




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