[aprssig] Anyone using an old Garmin III (not "street pilot III") with a D700?

[William McKeehan]

There was an issue that I remember affecting these older GPS units. It had to
do with a specific character (or characters) in the objet's name. Perhaps it
was a period or hyphen?
-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU
http://mckeehan.homeip.net


On Sun, April 26, 2009 1:05 am, Tom Russo wrote:
> On a SAR DF practice today, I was sending out DF bearing objects from Xastir,
> and one of the field guys who was using an ancient Garmin III GPS with his
> D700 was having fits.
>
> Apparently, this GPS, or at least the one he has, is rejecting every single
> waypoint the D700 sends him for *any* objects.  It's not just the ones I was
> sending --- he's getting the same problem for any object that comes in to his
> D700, including the repeater objects being sent out by some of our local
> digis.
> The GPS reports "Invalid Waypoint" and makes him hit the enter button before
> it'll do anything else.  He's had this problem for as long as our local digis
> have been sending out repeater objects, but it was really bothering him today
> since I was sending out lots of objects all day.
>
> This is very clearly an issue with that GPS, not with the objects sent out.
> At
> first we thought it might have been an invalid character in the waypoint name,
> but when I sent out an object named "Actual" (at the actual location of
> the transmitter after it was located), the GPS complained about that one,
> too.
>
> So does anyone out there know what the difference might be between the NMEA
> waypoint sentence sent by the D700 for an object and that for a regular
> station?  And does anyone else use an old GPS III who has an experience that
> differs from this one?  Anyone know how to fix it (short of telling this
> fellow "get a new GPS!" --- which will not go down well)?
>
> --
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