Thread: Where to buy Garmin GPS 35?

try www.etronics.com

Thanks, but the Garmin GPS 35 didn't show up on the site. I'm looking for the one that looks like the rand mcnally one. Any other places?

http://www.thegpsstore.com

Go to the PC products. Check out also Holux GM-200 (serial or USB) looks very good and has a nice price too.

If you go to this page:

http://www.thegpsstore.com/cgi-bin/S...707+1014657660

It's mentioned at the bottom of the page that this unit is not compatible with Windows XP. Well...I don't get that. If the mapping software you are using is compatible with the OS, doesn't it just listen the COM port for serial NMEA data?
I use the early Delorme Tripmate receiver with Fugawi and XP without any problems!

How would this be incompatible with XP?
The only thing I can think is that the USB needs drivers to turn it into a virtual com port. Why wouldn't the serial version work?

So you don't have trouble tracking with the delorme?

Smoothswiss,

that's exactly what I am wondering myself. Why shouldn't work with XP??? And this is mentioned for the serial version too.
No I don't have any problems with my (modified) Delorme and any OS/software.

Well, I was looking on ebay and found an auction for a used Garmin gps 36 ( http://www.garmin.com/products/gps36/ ), that had a few minutes left, and I won it for 56 dollars. Looks like a good gps... used for marine and aviation oem installations. No connector, but I just have to hook it up to a serial plug and 12 volt power.
If anyone else is looking for a good gps, search ebay for 'gps antenna' or under boating and watersports, and you can find some oem (mostly marine) NMEA gps recievers that interface using serial communication ports. Although, some appear to just be extension antenna's with bnc connectors (coax cables)... as Dimitris1976 says below, these CANNOT be used as recievers. Check it out... these are hardcore gps recievers.


EDIT: I was just looking through the manual, and the gps 36 reciever seems to have the same electronics as the gps 35 model... glad I didn't win that auction on ebay yesterday, cause it went up to 126.00... saved 70 bucks

Just make sure when you have searched on eBay for GPS antenna, that you are NOT bidding on a ACTUAL GPS antenna.
I know that sometimes for simplicity reasons this type of serial output GPS receivers are also called GPS antennas (because they don't have a screen, buttons and cannot be used without a computer). They are intergrated antennas with receivers though. A plain GPS patch antenna has a coaxial cable attached, which should be connected on an OEM GPS receiver board or on a receiver with external antenna connector. It CANNOT be modified (hacked) in any way to output serial NMEA data since they don't include a receiver.