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Re: lv-ab: USB/Serial GPS

From: Leonard Bisgrove (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 22:01:24 EDT

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    You need to purchase a USB to Serial port interface cable that also has the software with it so the USB port can understand what the serial port information is saying. Without it, the USB won't understand the info.
    Good luck

    Steve Wight <> wrote: My old laptop died, so I got another, installed my chart-plotting
    software. but there is no serial port to plug in the GPS. Is it as
    simple as just connecting a USB/Serial connector?

    Thanks
    Steve

    Vienna! But there's no sailing in Vienna?

     I belong to a Yahoo list, the ads are blocked, it's OK, it's the
    'moderator' that is a pain. It's the content we have that is so
    valuable, the vehicle doesn't matter to me. And let me add my thanks to
    Stefan, eh?

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