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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>I am not the brightest bulb in the chandelier!
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>I have been struggling for two days to get my 700A on
the air. I have it interfaced to a laptop running APRSPoint. I am receiving
packets from other stations and see them plotted on my map, but I am unable to
see my own packets. I have a GPS attached to the radio and 'believed' I had
things setup properly on my radio. Not seeing my position show up on the map is
discouraging. It leads me to believe I do not have forgotten something.
Where have I gone wrong? Perhaps something is not set right in AP?
Maybe I am not supposed to see myself! From the map display there appears to be
a digipeater locally. I even went to findu to see if my station was there with
no luck. One area I may have overlooked and just found in the User Manual
is menu item 1-9-5 and 1-9-6. Do these have any effect on my problem? If so, I
expect I should set 1-9-5 to 9600 and 1-9-6 to 1200.
Right? </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>If someone could guide me in the radio set up - sort
of step by step I would be grateful. I must have missed something. What are
the minimal things that should be attended to as far as the radio's menus are
concerned?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>I have the radio setup in TNC PKT mode, NMEA, 1200B
packet transfer rate. My GPS is a Garmin GPS35 and I have verified that it
is transmitting NMEA 4800B. In the vain hope that I wired the GPS => radio
plug backwards I have even tried interposing a null modem between the
GPS and the connector to the radio. I wired a DB9 on the free end
of the plug as my GPS has a DB9 on the output. Neither direction
worked.</FONT></STRONG> <STRONG><FONT size=2>BTW: the pigtail is wired to
the DB9 so that the GPS Data appears on the plugs tip without the null modem and
on the ring with the null modem. The manual is somewhat vague sayig that the tip
(white) goest to DATA IN on the gps and the ring (red) goes to DATA OUT on the
gps. I am not clear as to which device is the DTE and which is the DCE.
If OUT means to the radio in this context, I have the DB9 wired
incorrectly. However the null modem corrects this for testing purposes. I WILL
rewire this so as to not have to use the null modem.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>Any enlightenment will be
appreciated.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>Vic</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>Victor Fraenckel - The
Windman <BR>victorf ATSIGN
windreader DOT
com<BR>KC2GUI
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