<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Actually you would need a device that would be the USB host, to talk to the GPS, then convert it to regular serial cable. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>http://www.circuitsathome.com/mcu/communicating-to-gps-receiver-using-usb-host-shield</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>KI6ZQY 73<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2@aol.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 20, 2012 12:50 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] Really CHEAP Puck-type USB GPS Receiver<br> </font> </div> <br>
On 1/20/2012 1:47 PM, r gilson wrote:<br>> OK now is there an adapter so this receiver can be interfaced to a D7 or D700 Radio? Awesome and simple way to get on APRS.<br>> Ron WA2WWK<br>> <br><br>The "adapter" would be a complete PC.<br><br>USB is a master/slave protocol (more commonly known a server/client protocol). USB devices (i.e. clients) can only talk to a PC running a fairly complex stack of device-specific software. Until a computer master has initialized a USB client device and has assigned it an identity, USB devices are completely helpless.<br><br>There is no practical way to mate USB devices to other USB devices (or to non-PC devices such as Kenwood radios, OpenTrackers, TinyTracks, etc) without a computer master as middleman.<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>--<br><br>Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) <a target="_blank"
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