[aprssig] Help with Interfacing a GPS to Kantronics KPC-3

EXT-Maetta, John john.maetta at boeing.com
Wed Jan 3 17:06:20 EST 2007


Earl,

It does work.

md:beacon e 1
BEACON was EVERY 0 (disabled)
cmd:N6VMO>BEACON: <UI>:
n6vmo

N6VMO>BEACON: <UI>:
N6vmo

The LED illuminates every minute to Tx the beacon.

John
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Needham [mailto:needhame1 at plateautel.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:57 PM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Help with Interfacing a GPS to Kantronics KPC-3 

At 02:38 PM 1/3/2007, EXT-Maetta, John wrote:
>Hi Earl,
>
>Yep....I will worry about frequency choice and packet length, for this 
>new project, when the basics start working.
>
>Ok, I can successfully see the Xmit LED illuminate when in CONV mode.
>Text typed is transmitted, so the TNC is working.
>
>This is very frustating.  Are you using the KPC-3 with a GPS receiver?

         I have done so in the past, but it's been several years.  At
this point, you know the TNC is doing what it should.

         I'm doing all this on memory, but it seems to me that the
KPC-3 would send a blank position if it was in GPS mode and didn't get
good data from the GPS.

         Does the BEACON work?  Set BText to something or other, and B E
1 or something, and see if it automatically lights up the XMIT LED ever
so often.  Don't forget to go back to B E 0 when you're done with this
one!

         Uh -- I've already erased the original message, could you
resend your GPS settings, i.e. beacon timings, etc?

         Earl

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