[aprssig] Nuvi-350 Station Symbols

Mon Aug 24 22:35:22 EDT 2009

You can use a 2.5mm stereo extension cable.  I bought a small batch of 
them, and lost them in the warehouse somewhere.

Scott
N1VG

lloyd at mitchell-web.net wrote:
> Clay did you hve to extend the GTRAN-KW cable?  If so how did you do
> that?
> Mine is a little short, wish it were abouit 5 ft longer..
> 
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> Ko4Lloyd
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Nuvi-350 Station Symbols
> From: Clay Melhorn <n9io at hotmail.com>
> Date: Mon, August 24, 2009 10:08 pm
> To: APRSSIG <aprssig at tapr.org>
> 
>  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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