[Xastir] Help with TH-D72

[Alex Carver]

--- On Thu, 1/20/11, Kurt Savegnago wrote:


> The D7A(g) works the same way except
> in APRS mode one had to plug in a
> serial enabled GPS with NMEA output.  With the TNC in
> PACKET mode there is no GPS data available at the TNC level
> except for the data coming in over Rf in the form of
> position packets from other stations to be processed
> displayed by a control program. (ie. control program=
> Xastir, UI-View
> APRSIS32)

The D7A(g) DOES send a raw GPS string out the main serial port in packet mode assuming that the GPSHEAD command is issued with an appropriate NMEA sentence prefix (such as $GPGGA).  I just tried it on my D7 and my D700, works fine.