Interfacing a PC to LORAN equipment

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5 total messages Started by Atul Kacker Mon, 10 Apr 1989 21:02

#936

Author: Atul Kacker
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1989 21:02

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This is a posting for someone else, so the terminology may not
be exactly right...

Boats use a communications protocol called NIMEA 0182/3 (?) to interface
navigational instruments with each other and with control devices (i.e.
Lorans to auto-pilots).  Does anyone know or have information on how
to use a laptop PC to obtain the information from these devices in a usable
form?  Is there a company that makes hardware/software gizmos to translate
the NIMEA protocol to say an RS-232 type ?

Thanks
Atul Kacker
akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

[Please e-mail, since I doubt this will be of general interest]

Re: Interfacing a PC to LORAN equipment

#937

Author: Jeff Weber
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1989 17:56

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In article <1470@ur-cc.UUCP> akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes:
>
>Boats use a communications protocol called NIMEA 0182/3 (?) to interface
>navigational instruments with each other and with control devices (i.e.
>Lorans to auto-pilots).  Does anyone know or have information on how
>to use a laptop PC to obtain the information from these devices in a usable
>form?  Is there a company that makes hardware/software gizmos to translate
>the NIMEA protocol to say an RS-232 type ?
>

	<we'll see about the general interest...good point.>

	As far as I know the signal is indeed RS-232 and the data is 
	ASCII.  I found this in the connection manual for the autopilot
	interface I was doing about 3 years ago.  I always wanted to put
	a data-scope on it.  The data rate is quite reasonable, something
	less than 9600 baud so your watch could keep up if it had to.

	Call NIMEA

Re: Interfacing a PC to LORAN equipment

#938

Author: Greg Ramsey
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1989 16:47

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In article <1470@ur-cc.UUCP>, akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes:
> Boats use a communications protocol called NIMEA 0182/3 (?) to interface
> navigational instruments with each other and with control devices (i.e.
> Lorans to auto-pilots).  Does anyone know or have information on how
> to use a laptop PC to obtain the information from these devices in a usable
> form?  Is there a company that makes hardware/software gizmos to translate
> the NIMEA protocol to say an RS-232 type ?
> 
> [Please e-mail, since I doubt this will be of general interest]

If you deem your reply to not be of general interest, please
email your response to me also.

Greg

ncelvaz!greg@nosc.mil

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Re: Interfacing a PC to LORAN equipment

#941

Author: Larry Swift
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1989 11:56

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In article <273@ncelvax.UUCP> greg@ncelvax.UUCP (Greg Ramsey) writes:
>In article <1470@ur-cc.UUCP>, akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes:
>> [Please e-mail, since I doubt this will be of general interest]

>If you deem your reply to not be of general interest, please
>email your response to me also.

Why not of general interest?  I'd like to know, too.  I'm not a general,
but a friend of my father's was.  8^)

Larry Swift                     UUCP: {peora,uunet}!pdn!larry
AT&T Paradyne, LG-129           Phone: (813) 530-8605
P. O. Box 2826
Largo, FL, 34649-9981           She's old and she's creaky, but she holds!

Re: Interfacing a PC to LORAN equipment

#948

Author: Jeff Kaskey
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 17:38

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In article <273@ncelvax.UUCP> greg@ncelvax.UUCP (Greg Ramsey) writes:
>In article <1470@ur-cc.UUCP>, akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes:
...
>>  Is there a company that makes hardware/software gizmos to translate
>> the NIMEA protocol to say an RS-232 type ?
>> 
>> [Please e-mail, since I doubt this will be of general interest]
>
>If you deem your reply to not be of general interest, please
>email your response to me also.
>

Wait! This IS a computer net 'fter all.  Let fly, or at least summarize
to da net.

-jeff "may my next login be from offshore" kaskey

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