[Xastir] New toy, but doesn't work yet.....

Tapio Sokura oh2kku at iki.fi
Sat Jun 6 05:59:59 EDT 2009


Thomas Sprinzing wrote:
> On 5-Jun-09, at 12:06 PM, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote:
>> $GPRMC,,V,,,,,,,,,,N*53
>> $GPGGA,235945.0,5717.746771,N,05717.746771,E,0,32,99.9,1.0,M,,,,*3B
> 
> b) why is the GPRMC broken, while GPGGA looks fine? The card has got a 
> fix, does it?

The 6th field of the $GPGGA sentence is 0, which means there is no fix, 
i.e. the reported lat/lon can be anything. That's the same as $GPRMC 
sentence's 'V' in the second field.

   Tapio



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