[aprssig] Sierra wireless 881 pc card gps

Dave Haynes dave at ep90.com
Thu Jul 16 09:08:39 EDT 2009


I use the free 'Virtual Serial Port Emulator' from Eterlogic when I'm 
developing software. It works very well, and allows you to do all sorts 
of things with COM ports.

Dave G1TVL

Rich Garcia wrote:
> You need a comm manager that will allow a comport to be a virtual com port.
> May be using the wrong terms but you would tell APRS to use comm 4 let's say
> if that is open then this program you set up will be told that com 23 is a
> virtual port and to "patch" it over to COM 4 as if it were a real port.
> 
> I have used these lon in the past and think one is MixW Serial Port Bridge.
> Also DeLorme had one I believed on their web site so you could set up their
> USB GPS units to feed several virtual ports and feed several programs with
> the same GPS data.
> 
> Rich


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