<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks all. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I am going to hold off till I find a fluxgate compass. The GPS route would "work" but this thing has enough issues already.</div><div><br></div><div>The Boltek LD-250 is "
Long Range detection Designed for mobile use in a moving vehicle with a GPS or Compass connected
" (From their web site)<br></div><div>However..</div><div><br></div><div>Their software doesn't work with any known map program.</div><div>The unit sends strike information as bearing and distance relative to the front side of the sensor.</div><div>If you add a compass, the strikes are rotated accordingly.</div><div>The strikes are not converted to anything like an object at a coordinate though, so if the vehicle is moving, they are "smeared" across the map.</div><div><br></div><div>It's only really useful while moving if the strikes are converted to absolute rather than relative coordinates, and then the image is rotated and panned accordingly to the vehicle rotation and motion.</div><div>I could easily live without an actual map</div><div><br></div><div>The GPS wouldn't give me workable heading data when not moving, and the LD-250 doesn't give useful data while I am moving..</div><div><br></div><div>With a compass, at least I could park in whatever direction works, and I'd get a display rotated so that it's oriented north up.</div> <br><div><div>It's a fixed location instrument in a mobile package. The only plus is that it doesn't require a full PC with PCI slot to run.</div>
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Basically, in the 10 years since I last used it, the half-assed implementation of their software hasn't improved at all.
I need it to be at least 3/4 assed. :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>It would be really cool if some working mobile app/program whatever could be trained to hear their data and plot it on a working map.</div><div><br></div><div>
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<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:serif"><ddd> - corrected strike distance 0-300 miles </div><div style="font-size:20px;font-family:serif"> <uuu> - uncorrected strike distance 0-300 miles </div><div style="font-size:20px;font-family:serif"><bbb.b> - bearing to strike 000.0-359.9 degrees </div><div style="font-size:20px;font-family:serif"> <cs> - checksum in hex </div><div style="font-size:20px;font-family:serif"> <cr> - carriage return </div><div style="font-size:20px;font-family:serif"> <lf> - line feed </div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.boltek.com/manual-ld-250.pdf">http://www.boltek.com/manual-ld-250.pdf</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 7:25 AM, david vanhorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kc6ete@gmail.com" target="_blank">kc6ete@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I'm reactivating an old project, and I would like to find an NMEA output GPS unit like the old Garmins with their four pin connector, or a compass with similar output.</div><div><br></div><div>What I've seen in compasses are crazy expensive ($500), and GPS units seem to all be USB output now if they have any external data connection at all.</div><div><br></div><div>What I absolutely need at a minimum is a compass or GPS with an NMEA output. The system has NMEA+ NMEA-, +12V power to compass/GPS and ground. If it's a GPS unit, I would prefer some sort of simple "puck" style unit rather than something with a display and buttons to misconfigure.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Any sources coming to mind?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><br>-- <br><div class="m_8941883512445858038gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">K1FZY (WA4TPW) SK 9/29/37-4/13/15<br></div></div>
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