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This may sound like an "is it turned on" sort of question, but is the GPS memory full? I forget what mine did when I filled it up, but this sounds vaguely familiar. (I have the GPS-III, but not a D700, so I can't try it.) The GPS-III also has limitations on waypoint names, 6 characters, I think, upper case only; stuff like that.<br><br>It's actually not a bad GPS, considering its age. I'd probably still be using mine but the screen's got a bunch of missing pixel lines, so it's getting hard to read. Not that I'd trade my Garmin Vista HCx for one, but I'm hanging on to it as a backup, and because it has a serial port.<br><br>Greg KO6TH<br><br><br>> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:05:13 -0600<br>> From: russo@bogodyn.org<br>> To: aprssig@tapr.org<br>> Subject: [aprssig] Anyone using an old Garmin III (not "street pilot III") with a D700?<br>> <br>> On a SAR DF practice today, I was sending out DF bearing objects from Xastir,<br>> and one of the field guys who was using an ancient Garmin III GPS with his <br>> D700 was having fits.<br>> <br>> Apparently, this GPS, or at least the one he has, is rejecting every single<br>> waypoint the D700 sends him for *any* objects. It's not just the ones I was<br>> sending --- he's getting the same problem for any object that comes in to his<br>> D700, including the repeater objects being sent out by some of our local digis.<br>> The GPS reports "Invalid Waypoint" and makes him hit the enter button before<br>> it'll do anything else. He's had this problem for as long as our local digis<br>> have been sending out repeater objects, but it was really bothering him today<br>> since I was sending out lots of objects all day.<br>> <br>> This is very clearly an issue with that GPS, not with the objects sent out. At<br>> first we thought it might have been an invalid character in the waypoint name,<br>> but when I sent out an object named "Actual" (at the actual location of<br>> the transmitter after it was located), the GPS complained about that one,<br>> too. <br>> <br>> So does anyone out there know what the difference might be between the NMEA<br>> waypoint sentence sent by the D700 for an object and that for a regular <br>> station? And does anyone else use an old GPS III who has an experience that<br>> differs from this one? Anyone know how to fix it (short of telling this<br>> fellow "get a new GPS!" --- which will not go down well)?<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/<br>> Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM<br>> In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. <br>> -- Ineffective daily affirmation <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> aprssig mailing list<br>> aprssig@tapr.org<br>> https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<br><br /><hr />Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Get 25 GB of free online storage. <a href='http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_042009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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