[aprssig] BMW X5 - integrated GPS

[Dave Baxter]

There is a "hack" to get NMEA data out of it for the likes of APRS, but you will loose the on board sat-nav if you do that.  It also needs the screened assemblies opening and extra wires and a connector adding.  There was a link to a website (hackaday I think) some months ago about that.

As to the car, don't take it into the soft stuff, it's crap at that, don't know how many I've seen having to be pulled off a grass verge because they got stuck on wet grass after a slight "off".  Take care, they don't handle like a sports car, as some have found, despite going like one in a straight line on dry black top.

Dave G0WBX.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan T. Pharo [mailto:la2bba at jpharo.net] 
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 6:14 AM
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] BMW X5 - integrated GPS
> 
> "Rikard Sohlberg" <rikard.sohlberg at home.se>, Sun, 7 May 2006 21:41:05
> +0200:
> 
> >I have just bought a used BMW X5. It has an integrated GPS receiver 
> >(somewhere!?). I will try to mount my new TM-D700 in it.
> 
> Varför köpa en GPS med så mycket extra som en stor motor, 
> stora gummihjul, bortgömda kabler med vidare, när dom finns 
> mycket billigare och utan kopplingsproblem :-)
> 
> --
> 73 de Jan, LA2BBA
> Hvaler, Norway
> 
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