[aprssig] GPS Jamming On The Rise

[Greg D.]

Hi Brian,

Yes, and in fact I still use it with my TH-D7.  But partly the decision to replace the GPS-III was for the other uses, where a readable screen, downloadable maps, in-unit routing, searching, and all the other bells & whistles that have come out in the past 8+ years are useful.  And the eTrex gets gets like 4x better battery life and is smaller.

As you did, I'm looking to get a smaller hockey-puck or equivalent to use with the D7; something I can mount on top of it so I don't have stringy wires all over the place.  I'm thinking of the modules from SparkFun, for example the 406A (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=465), either running from 4 AAA NiCd batteries, or maybe tapping into the D7's 4-cell pack.  I've talked about this before...  really need to get on it!

Greg  KO6TH


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> From: brianbr at mac.com
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:42:39 -0400
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] GPS Jamming On The Rise
> 
> Heck I have a II+ that went to a nearly unreadable screen 5 years ago  
> but it still puts out clean NMEA sentences. I never used the screen  
> much anyway. Its put away now. I use a smaller quicker to lock up  
> DeLuo, but I keep the II+ around and it gets used from time to time,  
> the screen now has maybe two dozen visible pixels  and you have to  
> 'guess' when its on or else monitor its output.
> 
>   cheers ... n1bq
> 
> 
> On Jun 29, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Greg D. wrote:
> 
>> p.s.  I also experienced the Garmin reverse-jamming scenario.  The  
>> solution was to wait (8+ years) for my GPS-III to wear out - the  
>> display is getting multiple stripes of bad pixels across it- and  
>> replace it with an eTrex Vista HCx.
> 
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