[Xastir] Who's current on Garmin handheld GPS models?

[Kurt]

Unfortunately,

  You are SOL with a DR.  There is no access to the TNC or data through anything. The port on the -8R and DR was for 
programming only.  With the VX8GR there is/was a serial port socket just like the sockets on  the D7A, D7A(g) and D72A.
One could select the port to output waypoints so a handheld mapping GPS could read and plot them.

I confirmed with an -8GR owner a couple of years ago that the cable for with the round plug for the Kenwoods worked with the -8GR.
I looked up online on the GR manual and confirmed there is menu selection to output the waypoints.  It will work
except the GR is out of production.

The -8R/DR is a closed system.  Absolutely no access to the TNC whatsoever.  Cannot plug into Xastir and 
use it as a Packet or KISS TNC so Xastir can control the rig like the Kenwoods.  You'd have to connect your
-8DR to an external TNC to be able to do that.  Sort of defeats the purpose, huh?

Kurt KC9LDH

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On Mon, 6/29/15, Thomas Sprinzing <thomas at sprinzing.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Xastir] Who's current on Garmin handheld GPS models?
 To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
 Date: Monday, June 29, 2015, 2:56 PM
 
 Am 29.06.2015 um 20:27
 schrieb Kurt:
 > Yup,
 >
 The round port cable works with the Kenwood D7a series D72A
 and the Yaesu VX-8GR.
 > The GR, one uses
 the same cable as is used with the Kenwoods so one would get
 that
 > one even though it says it's
 only for Kenwood.  The dataport on the GR can be set to
 > output waypoints.
 
 Now you got me interested - i have a first-gen
 VX-8 DR . The only thing 
 i know from
 disseminating the interface back then is:
 9600 baud 3.3v - non-standard NMEA, stupid
 "interpreter" looking for 
 positions in the strings rather than finding
 the commas...
 
 Others
 weren't better off either
 
 http://www.f4fxl.org/2013/03/05/connecting-an-external-gps-to-the-yaesu-vx8/
 
 It's a nice hack, but i
 just need the radio operable, not in clone mode.
 
 Did yaesu finally come to
 grips with that thing on the GR ?
 
 Where would i find documentation for this?
 
 
 Thomas
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