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effzed
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 Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject: Connecting Garmin GPS III to laptop... |
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Can anyone help. I have searched the forums but cannot find the answer...
I am thinking about buying a lead from Maplins to connect my rather old Garmin GPS III to my laptop, so that I can track my position using Autoroute 2004. My GPS III is NMEA 0183 v2 compliant.
Do you know if this will work? Has anyone tried it?
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If your laptop still has a serial connector then this will work without problem.
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I havent used the GPS III but I have connected a Geko, and a GPSMap 76 to my laptop with no problems. The only thing to remember is to check the Protocol, as Garmins do tend to default to the GARMIN protocol not NMEA
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Connecting Garmin GPS III to laptop... |
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| effzed wrote: | Can anyone help. I have searched the forums but cannot find the answer...
I am thinking about buying a lead from Maplins to connect my rather old Garmin GPS III to my laptop, so that I can track my position using Autoroute 2004. My GPS III is NMEA 0183 v2 compliant.
Do you know if this will work? Has anyone tried it?
thanks
eff |
I have connected my GPS 3+, (now sold) and my GPS V to a laptop using the supplied serial cable, and I have also made my own. All you need is a 9 pin male connector and a Garmin 4 pin plug, which you can get from here, some 4 conductor cabel (telephone wire is adequate) and a slodering iron.
If your laptop only has USB ports you can get a dedicated Garmin/USB cable or use the one you're going to make(!) in conjunction with a Serial/USB adapter cable.
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effzed
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject: thanks |
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thanks for your responses - you have all answered my question.
bravo
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