[Xastir] Help with TH-D72 run in PACKET and get at GPS?

[Kurt Savegnago]

O.K.,

  No big deal but I suspected that was the case with the D72.  Run it in 
PACKET mode with a connection to a laptop running a tracking program and one will still need to either input a fixed position in the tracking program (ie Xastir, UI-View or APRSIS32) or put a USB GPS receiver on 
another USB port for realtime position information.
  No different than what one had to do with the D7A(g).

                           Kurt KC9LDH

--- On Mon, 1/17/11, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Help with TH-D72 run in PACKET and get at GPS?
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Monday, January 17, 2011, 11:13 PM
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:16 PM,
> Kurt Savegnago <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > When in PACKET mode, I don't think there is a way to
> extract the
> > GPS information into the computer.  I said, "I don't
> think." :-)
> > I could be wrong. ;-)  If I am, show me the
> way............
> 
> I'm currently connected to my D72 with a serial connection
> to the com
> port, and a pseudo-serial connection via the USB connector.
> In PACKET
> mode, I am not able to see any GPS data from the internal
> GPS on
> either port.
> 
> I have menu 202 GPS PC Output set to ON, and the internal
> GPS has a
> current location lock.
> 
> It appears that the TNC Commands that address GPS functions
> available
> in the PACKET command mode are designed to talk to the com
> port.
> 
> I don't see a way to point the TNC towards the internal
> GPS. I can
> send text out the com port by using the GPSSend command on
> the USB
> port... GPSS ABC123 will make ABC123 show up on the
> terminal screen
> attached to the com port... Interestingly, lower case
> letters don't
> have so well.
> 
> Hmm, when I started in APRS mode, I had GPS strings from
> the internal
> GPS showing up on the USB port serial connection by turning
> on menu
> 202... All I could get out of the com port was waypoint
> sentences
> destined for an outboard GPS. Aha.. something locked up my
> terminal
> program when I switched back.
> 
> 
> > If there is a way to route the GPS info from the D72
> while it is
> > in PACKET mode to the laptop via a USB sertial
> comverter
> 
> Doesn't look like it from my initial testing.
> 
> > Is the GPS information available at the 2.5mm jack
> while the D72
> > is in PACKET mode?
> 
> Not that I can see from my initial testing. There may be a
> hidden
> command that would allow the PACKET mode to gain access to
> the
> internal GPS, but then again there may not be.
> 
> James
> VE6SRV
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