[Xastir] Do the garmin GPS's work for Trackers?

[ZPO]

The Garmin 18x USB outputs in Garmin proprietary format only.

73-KY9K/Brian
On Jul 14, 2015 3:02 PM, "Skyler F" <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, My friend KD0MLV just bought a Garmin 18x USB gps (not the older
> serial one) and I am trying to help him through email get his station up.
>
> He has been working hard trying to install drivers but not much luck has
> been achieved.
>
> What can I tell him to help out on getting that GPS to work? I saw on an
> earlier message that the serial version is someones primary GPS.
>
> The Garmin 18x is simply a USB gps. No serial data or power, it gets power
> from USB and sends signals via USB. According to the last message on this
> thread, are if there is no serial port does that mean we are out of luck?
>
> The Courage Classic bike tour starts this Saturday so between my BU-353
> which worked, my garmin Nuvi which I am having troubles with and his garmin
> 18x we need two of those GPS's to work (or last minute find a compatible
> GPS at some store)
>
> We are both on Ubuntu and thanks for any patience. My friend and I are
> fairly new to linux and we're in high school.
>
> Thanks,
> Skyler KD0WHB
>
> And by the way thanks to everyone for so much help so far.
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm no expert on all the models of Nuvi's.  I was using a Nuvi-350 in
> > the Jeep connected to a Tracker2 TNC and it worked fine.  However:  I
> > had to have the GPS in it's cradle to get power, then had to have a
> > separate data cable plugged into the side which gave me NMEA serial to
> > feed to/from the Tracker2.
> >
> > Check whether the Nuvi has a serial data cable available for it, and
> > whether you have to power the Nuvi separately from that cable (I did
> > for mine) to make it all work.  If there's no serial data cable
> > available for that model, then you won't be able to hook it to Xastir
> > or a TNC.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I can confirm the BU-353 GPS works with XASTIR.
> > >
> > > I want to help my friend with APRS now, and am wondering if the Garmin
> > nuvi
> > > 200w will work to send out location coordinates to xastir?
> > >
> > > It isn't just plug in and play like the other GPS was, so if it does
> > work,
> > > is there anything I have to do?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Skyler KD0WHB
> > >
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