[aprssig] Nuvi-350 Station Symbols

Mon Aug 24 22:33:17 EDT 2009

Oops, think I sent a blank message.

I stashed the D710 body under the passenger's seat when I drove to 
Nevada, but I was disappointed to find that it's not so easy to remote 
the whole thing.  I'd rather have it in back, but I've got to run the 
speaker and mic up front.  I prefer messaging on the nuvi with the T2, 
so then I've also got to run the cable from the nuvi up front to the 
T2-301 in back.

My Pathfinder's really short on dash and console space.  What I'd really 
like is a mic that can hang up overhead, without a cable dangling down. 
  I've got a couple of Bluetooth mics in the office I could try out, but 
that would only really work if they could charge while hung up.

Scott
N1VG

Clay Melhorn wrote:
> Scott I got the GTRAN-kW cable working with my Nuvi 350 today.
> I tried it out by tracking the local Super-digi.  I selected the digi on 
> the scrfeen and just pressed GO.  I took a little ride and then tracked 
> back to home.
> The speaking turn by turn gps is something new to me.
> Sweet!
> I am running the D-700 but I can live without the symbols. It's fine.
> I really like this.
> Sure wish I had it going Sunday when I went to the hamfest down in 
> Danville, IL (HFEST-23D).   I did get a couple parts I needed at the 
> hamfest to complete the gps install. (and sold my Garmin V at the hamfest.)
>  
> I have the radio body hidden in the back of the Prius with all of the 
> cables bound in a spiral wrap along with an RS-232 cable for a laptop 
> connection.
>  
> I borrowed the RS-232 (db-9) cable making it dual purpose.
> The cable adapters are female 3/32" to male db-9 on the gps end and 
> female db-9 to 3/32" male on the D-700 end.
> Worked like a champ.
>  
> Very satisfied.  Programmers rule!
>  
> To everyone else, it's not too late, Radio Shack still has the Nuvi 350 
> refurb on sale through Aug 31. Came complete with suction cup mount home 
> and mobile charger and data cable. Very nice complete unit.
> 
> Clay Melhorn N9IO Bonfield, IL
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>  > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:25:43 -0700
>  > From: scott at opentrac.org
>  > To: aprssig at tapr.org
>  > Subject: Re: [aprssig] Nuvi-350 Station Symbols
>  >
>  > Exactly right. Also, remember that you need the D710 in Kenwood
>  > waypoint mode to get symbols at all - otherwise you'll just get dots or
>  > flags.
>  >
>  > As for the display of names and symbols at different scales, the nuvi
>  > apparently has some magic algorithm that it uses to decide when it can
>  > fit names and such on the screen. It depends on how much map detail you
>  > have enabled, what else is close to it, and how far in you're zoomed.
>  >
>  > I've captured a bunch of screen shots to build an animation of a car
>  > moving through a static map, and you can see even non-moving labels
>  > shuffle around a bit as the car comes through, and I think the label on
>  > the car shifts from being printed below to being above the icon.
>  >
>  > The problem I had with the official POI upload capability in FMI v2 on
>  > my nuvi 750 was that even though I could create items on the map, they
>  > didn't show up AT ALL until you zoomed in to almost the lowest level.
>  > And the required scale changed if you panned the map. I think they may
>  > have fixed that now. Let's hope they get it more consistent if and when
>  > they make an official real-time waypoint function.
>  >
>  > On the 350, with medium-high detail, I don't think I'm missing any local
>  > stations. I can't always see the labels at all zoom levels, though.
>  >
>  > Scott
>  > N1VG
>  >
>  > Patrick wrote:
>  > > Unfortunately a custom symbol set is not an option for the nuvi (350
>  > > anyway). The gTrans cable does the same translations that the OT2 does
>  > > such that mobiles with cars as their icons should show up as cars,
>  > > trucks as trucks, helicopters will show up as blue flags, houses as
>  > > houses.. These I know of as I've seen them (my car id's itself as a
>  > > chopper), and I'm sure there are more, but ones with no equivalent 
> will
>  > > get fall back to flags or dots.. There's a limited symbol set on the
>  > > nuvi so it attempts to keep things close, but can only do so much.
>  > >
>  > > p
>  > >
>  > > Quoting Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com>:
>  > >
>  > >> There's a custom symbol set that Scott provides that I loaded on my
>  > >> MAP60 to get custom APRS symbols, beyond the standard symbol set. Not
>  > >> sure if this applies to the Nuvi.
>  > >>
>  > >> -Jason
>  > >> kg4wsv
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