Re: GPS on KVH

I've been experiementing with my Garmin 48 and I see where there is an interface menu item and within that there are several operating mode, including
NMEA/NMEA. Mine was not set there so I'm guessing this is something to try to
get it to communicate with the rest of the world. Will try on Saturday and let you
know how it works.

Bee

"Godfirnon,Dennis R" wrote:

> This also may sound too simple, but mine did not work until I entered
> the GPS software by way of its menu selection route and changed the
> switch setting for output to "on" from the default "off"
> position.Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Guccione [mailto:innove8@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 8:09 AM
> To: John Heaney; J. Bee Bednar
> Cc: Santana3030 Mailto; techs@kvh.com; sales@garmin.com
> Subject: RE: GPS on KVH
> This is an interesting discussion. We tried to hook up our
> GPS to the KVH sail comp with no success. yet the
> instructions made it sound quite simple. We have a Standard
> GPS i wonder if this is the same problem.
> [Mike Guccione] -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-santana3030@sailpix.com
> [mailto:owner-santana3030@sailpix.com]On Behalf Of John
> Heaney
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 7:02 PM
> To: J. Bee Bednar
> Cc: Santana3030 Mailto; techs@kvh.com; sales@garmin.com
> Subject: Re: GPS on KVH
>
>
> I don't know anything about a "Quadro", but
> for over a year I've been attempting to get my
> below-deck Garmin GPS chartplotter to "talk" to my
> KVH Sailcomp digital compass. No success yet,
> despite considerable time communicating with both
> KVH and Garmin by e-mail.
>
> Supposedly, the mast mounted display for my
> KVH compass is designed to also act as a repeater
> for certain information transmitted by the GPS.
> This would be an absolutely great feature if I
> could get it to work and was a major factor in my
> decision to buy a KVH Sailcomp over its
> competition. With the push of single button, the
> compass display is supposed to change and show the
> course ("bearing") and distance to the next
> waypoint. Assuming you've taken the time to enter
> all of your local racing buoys into your GPS as
> waypoints, it would then be very easy to find the
> next mark, estimate your laylines and jibing
> angles, etc. without having to send someone below
> deck or deal with all the problems of using a
> small, easily damaged handheld GPS.
>
> The problem seems to be that for the last 6 or
> seven years Garmin and all other manufacturers of
> GPS's use version 2.0 or higher of a communication
> protocol known as NMEA 183. KVH is still using
> version 1.5. The precise "sentence" that the KVH
> Sailcomp needs to receive from the GPS to function
> properly is not transmitted by version 2.0
> (although the same information is available from
> other sentences). KVH has been most uncooperative
> in helping to find a solution and apparently has
> no interest in updating their software to
> accommodate newer GPS's. Instead, KVH wants to
> place the blame on Garmin. Garmin is trying to
> figure out a way to get their units to be
> compatible with older NMEA devices, but no
> solution yet.
> I hope this is of help to you. If you
> have any more luck with KVH than I, please let me
> know.
> JOHN HEANEY
> SPIRIT
> Southern California Fleet Captain
>
> "J. Bee Bednar" wrote:
>
> > Has anyone out there successfully hooked a GPS
> > to their KVH Quadro?
> >
> > If so, what did you do and how did you do it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Bee
> > Sea Bee
> >
> > --
> > * J. Bee Bednar *
> > * Advanced Data Solutions *
> > * bednarb@AdvancedDataSolutions.com *
> >
> >
>

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