robiewp

I spend enough time in towns with numbers for names and tree canopies so thick you can barely see sun. I've never had a problem with this placement, and no passanger has commented on it.

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the previous model delorme gps i have doesnt have the connector at the gps level (just has a wire coming out). if you want to mount it outside, all you need is a good dose of sealant around the cracks and your good to go. my friend did that for years with his old delorme gps, and that as back in '99.

not sure how hard it would be to seal the new ones though, connector makes it just a tad harder.

dont like the bright yellow color? spraypaint it!

did I hear correctly that some people mounted their GPS hidden under the dash with no problems? Sounding like a good place to put my new one. not worried about theft, just beats the hell out of the roof

nl4jy

I have the yellow POS too, then I replaced it with a bigger but better Destinator2 package. Since I have a sunroof, I actually mount that thing outside under the sunroof deflector. Since it's black, it's not as noticable as the bright yellow one. That yellow POS is so horrible, I could hardly get a connection even when mounted on the outside.

Henke

is the cheapy USB mouse found on ebay any good?

(sorry if I haven´t looked deep enough in the formuns)

RX7FDTT

I like it, what's a bit annoying is it uses a usb to serial driver to emulate a com port, which is I guess how most software looks for a gps unit, but why am I running 4800 bps on this thing that should do well over 115200 ?? Legacy BS
But I think that, that would be no different on another system.

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Henke

so if I find a software that looks for a gps on USB the problem should be solved?

RX7FDTT

I'm not sure such an animal exists... (usb gps software) since the nemah or whatever standard for transmitting GPS data is a serial text based format.... supposedly some of the Street Atlas software has some higher end GPS receiver that samples more often to calculate error and give you faster response, and more accurate position, but the downside is it doesn't work with anything else at all or just not well... from what I've read...

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lazarus

been using one for a few months now, the improvment over my old etak unit is phenominal. i cant see it been possible to get round it been detected as a usb to serial converter (or why you'd want to). you've probably noticed that pretty much all routing software asks for the com port you gps reciever is on, this is what the usb to serial converter gives you. its all built in to the unit so you aren't gonna be able to hack it out easily, and if you did manage all you'd have would be a serial line that you needed to hook up to a physical com port anyway, and a whole new issue of needing to find a new way to power it.

Twostep

You are running at 4800 baud because that is what the NMEA spec says serial devices run at. Of course, when it is hooked up to a serial-USB converter it doesn't make a lot of sense to limit it, but that is what most of the GPS chips output at.

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