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budgie <budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au> wrote:
>>>UPDATE:
>>
>>>It turns out that to get the HP instrument to actually interpret and
>>>act on commands, the OPEN COM has to include the LF parameter.

Peter,

Want a laff: read the last para. of this from the gps group.

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"Savio Landonio" <savio.landonio@unimi.it> writes:
>Does anyone know a software to configure this smart antenna ?
>In the manuals, Garmin wrote about a SNSRCFG or GPSCFG.
>Please if you have some usefull software send it to me.

Have you tried asking Garmin for the software they recommend?

I haven't used the GPS 17, but I have worked with a GPS 20 and 25LP.
Both of them were easy to configure using nothing more than a terminal
emulator on a computer.  The manuals document all of the commands that
you can send to the GPS receiver.  With a cable connected to a serial
port on the computer (which you'll need anyway to use the unit's
output),
fire up a terminal emulator.  You should see the NMEA data stream
coming
from the unit if you get the serial parameters set right.

Then, just type the necessary commands.  Or store them in a file
first,
and use the terminal emulator to send them to the GPSR.

The one thing that's easily missed is that Garmin units want commands
to be terminated by *both* carriage return and line feed.  Hitting
RETURN
in the terminal emulator will probably only send CR.  You need to type
CNTL-J as well to send the LF.

	Dave
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