[aprssig] GPS 18 USB PWR supply

[Andrew Rich (Home)]

Thanks Jason

I have also had the GPS15 - tin can GPS

Can onyone recommend a GPS with a patch on top ?

I see parrallax are selling one

To fit inside a tracker plastic case


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Andrew Rich
Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec at tech-software.net
web: www.tech-software.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason KG4WSV" <kg4wsv at gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Rich (Home)" <vk4tec at tech-software.net>; "TAPR APRS Mailing 
List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] GPS 18 USB PWR supply


> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Andrew Rich
> (Home)<vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
>> I think the USB on my laptop should be ok to power my LVC GPS 18 ?
>
> Yes.
>
>> The PC version is very similar and I suspect has a serial port usb chip
>> embeded in the connector ?
>
> No USB, the GPS18PC is RS232.  Add a 5V regulator in a cigarette
> lighter plug and a DB9 to the LVC and you've got an 18PC (or, the way
> we use 'em, chop the connectors off the 18PC and you've got an LVC).
>
> Both the 18PC and the 18LVC put out the same serial signal, which is
> TTL voltages but RS232 levels.
>
> The GPS18USB has a USB plug and is a different beast entirely.  It
> will not do NMEA and doesn't have RS232 signals available anywhere.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv


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