Hi Roger yep all works fine the little prog switches to NMEA (which is handy as the GPS module resets to Motorola when turned off)  and the other is nice and simple to use and will now be my choice of program to use portable for bearings and distance. Thanks for making it and making it available all the best John.

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On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 23:42, R Hopkins gw4nos@btinternet.com [ukmicrowaves]<ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com> wrote:  
Hi John

I hope you (or anyone else for that matter) find some of it useful.

I write my software for my own amusement but sometimes I feel others may find it useful. That's why
I uploaded it. It appears that the one called GPS Utility doesn't work properly in Poland (honest!).
Never worked that one out. But then I'm the first to acknowledge that I'm not great at this stuff.

As they say in south Wales "I'm just a potcher".

Cheers

Roger GW4NOS

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:12:09 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:

Thanks Roger will have a play with it tomorrow and report back.
73 John

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On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 17:43, R Hopkins gw4nos@btinternet.com [ukmicrowaves]<ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com> wrote:  
I uploaded some stuff to do with GPS into the file section a few years ago. It included a utility to
switch on the NMEA output on a Jupiter -T GPS and another which tells you your 10 digit locator if
you are walking around with a laptop with a GPS attached. It does a lot more including bearings and
distance to another locator. Sun and moon bearings and setting different output frequencies on a
Ublox GPS. It's called 'GW4NOS GPS programmes' believe it or not.

Roger GW4NOS

On 10 Jul 2016 13:35:58 -0700, you wrote:

Thanks Andy don't suppose you have a version to read Motorola Binary ? as I just can't get mine to output NMEA, been using WinOncore to read the data at the moment.

John


---In ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com, <andy.g4jnt@...> wrote :

There appears to have been quite a few users of this bit of PIC code that takes the NMEA data from a GPS and uses this to calculate and display the LOCator, Lat / Long, Date +_Time plus SOG and COG data contained in the message on a two or four line LCD


The latest version of this code now includes a new Locator calculation algorithm that shows the 10 digit LOC, accurate to about 18m at mid latitudes. It also has compile time flags for NMEA baud rate, since the latest generation of GPS modules tend to now use 9600 baud; also the option of km/hour or miles/hour (there no room to show both). The display appears on a 20 char x 4 line LCD.


Full details in http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP which still includes the earlier versions for backwards compatibility. In view of the use of compile time flags this latest version is supplied as .ASM file only - you will need to assemble into a .HEX .


(The high-res locator calculation routine was developed initially to go in my 10GHz portable beacon project, allowing the transmitted Locator to be correct anywhere without having to reprogramme the controller PIC contents every time its location is changed).


Andy G4JNT

On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 23:42, R Hopkins gw4nos@... [ukmicrowaves]

wrote:

 

Hi John

I hope you (or anyone else for that matter) find some of it useful.

I write my software for my own amusement but sometimes I feel others may find it useful. That's why
I uploaded it. It appears that the one called GPS Utility doesn't work properly in Poland (honest!).
Never worked that one out. But then I'm the first to acknowledge that I'm not great at this stuff.

As they say in south Wales "I'm just a potcher".

Cheers

Roger GW4NOS

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:12:09 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:

>Thanks Roger will have a play with it tomorrow and report back.
>73 John
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 17:43, R Hopkins gw4nos@... [ukmicrowaves] wrote:  
>I uploaded some stuff to do with GPS into the file section a few years ago. It included a utility to
>switch on the NMEA output on a Jupiter -T GPS and another which tells you your 10 digit locator if
>you are walking around with a laptop with a GPS attached. It does a lot more including bearings and
>distance to another locator. Sun and moon bearings and setting different output frequencies on a
>Ublox GPS. It's called 'GW4NOS GPS programmes' believe it or not.
>
>Roger GW4NOS
>
>On 10 Jul 2016 13:35:58 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>Thanks Andy don't suppose you have a version to read Motorola Binary ? as I just can't get mine to output NMEA, been using WinOncore to read the data at the moment.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>---In ukmicrowaves@..., wrote :
>>
>> There appears to have been quite a few users of this bit of PIC code that takes the NMEA data from a GPS and uses this to calculate and display the LOCator, Lat / Long, Date +_Time plus SOG and COG data contained in the message on a two or four line LCD
>>
>>
>> The latest version of this code now includes a new Locator calculation algorithm that shows the 10 digit LOC, accurate to about 18m at mid latitudes. It also has compile time flags for NMEA baud rate, since the latest generation of GPS modules tend to now use 9600 baud; also the option of km/hour or miles/hour (there no room to show both). The display appears on a 20 char x 4 line LCD.
>>
>>
>> Full details in http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP which still includes the earlier versions for backwards compatibility. In view of the use of compile time flags this latest version is supplied as .ASM file only - you will need to assemble into a .HEX .
>>
>>
>> (The high-res locator calculation routine was developed initially to go in my 10GHz portable beacon project, allowing the transmitted Locator to be correct anywhere without having to reprogramme the controller PIC contents every time its location is changed).
>>
>>
>> Andy G4JNT
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

On Tue, 12 Jul, 2016 at 12:46, g4uvz@... [ukmicrowaves]

wrote:

 

[Attachment(s) from g4uvz@... [ukmicrowaves] included below]

A couple of pictures of my 'Electrifying Site' on the Quantock Hills in Somerset

Three 2way QSOs with JTT VPF and GTZ   one way with API and reception of Andy's 100mW beacon !

Thanks Roger will have a play with it tomorrow and report back.
73 John

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On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 17:43, R Hopkins gw4nos@btinternet.com [ukmicrowaves]<ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com> wrote:  
I uploaded some stuff to do with GPS into the file section a few years ago. It included a utility to
switch on the NMEA output on a Jupiter -T GPS and another which tells you your 10 digit locator if
you are walking around with a laptop with a GPS attached. It does a lot more including bearings and
distance to another locator. Sun and moon bearings and setting different output frequencies on a
Ublox GPS. It's called 'GW4NOS GPS programmes' believe it or not.

Roger GW4NOS

On 10 Jul 2016 13:35:58 -0700, you wrote:

Thanks Andy don't suppose you have a version to read Motorola Binary ? as I just can't get mine to output NMEA, been using WinOncore to read the data at the moment.

John


---In ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com, <andy.g4jnt@...> wrote :

There appears to have been quite a few users of this bit of PIC code that takes the NMEA data from a GPS and uses this to calculate and display the LOCator, Lat / Long, Date +_Time plus SOG and COG data contained in the message on a two or four line LCD


The latest version of this code now includes a new Locator calculation algorithm that shows the 10 digit LOC, accurate to about 18m at mid latitudes. It also has compile time flags for NMEA baud rate, since the latest generation of GPS modules tend to now use 9600 baud; also the option of km/hour or miles/hour (there no room to show both). The display appears on a 20 char x 4 line LCD.


Full details in http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP which still includes the earlier versions for backwards compatibility. In view of the use of compile time flags this latest version is supplied as .ASM file only - you will need to assemble into a .HEX .


(The high-res locator calculation routine was developed initially to go in my 10GHz portable beacon project, allowing the transmitted Locator to be correct anywhere without having to reprogramme the controller PIC contents every time its location is changed).


Andy G4JNT

On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 17:43, R Hopkins gw4nos@... [ukmicrowaves]

wrote:

 

I uploaded some stuff to do with GPS into the file section a few years ago. It included a utility to
switch on the NMEA output on a Jupiter -T GPS and another which tells you your 10 digit locator if
you are walking around with a laptop with a GPS attached. It does a lot more including bearings and
distance to another locator. Sun and moon bearings and setting different output frequencies on a
Ublox GPS. It's called 'GW4NOS GPS programmes' believe it or not.

Roger GW4NOS

On 10 Jul 2016 13:35:58 -0700, you wrote:

>Thanks Andy don't suppose you have a version to read Motorola Binary ? as I just can't get mine to output NMEA, been using WinOncore to read the data at the moment.
>
> John
>
>
>---In ukmicrowaves@..., wrote :
>
> There appears to have been quite a few users of this bit of PIC code that takes the NMEA data from a GPS and uses this to calculate and display the LOCator, Lat / Long, Date +_Time plus SOG and COG data contained in the message on a two or four line LCD
>
>
> The latest version of this code now includes a new Locator calculation algorithm that shows the 10 digit LOC, accurate to about 18m at mid latitudes. It also has compile time flags for NMEA baud rate, since the latest generation of GPS modules tend to now use 9600 baud; also the option of km/hour or miles/hour (there no room to show both). The display appears on a 20 char x 4 line LCD.
>
>
> Full details in http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP which still includes the earlier versions for backwards compatibility. In view of the use of compile time flags this latest version is supplied as .ASM file only - you will need to assemble into a .HEX .
>
>
> (The high-res locator calculation routine was developed initially to go in my 10GHz portable beacon project, allowing the transmitted Locator to be correct anywhere without having to reprogramme the controller PIC contents every time its location is changed).
>
>
> Andy G4JNT
>
>
>
>
>

Thanks Andy don't suppose you have a version to read Motorola Binary ? as I just can't get mine to output NMEA, been using WinOncore to read the data at the moment.

John


---In ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com, <andy.g4jnt@...> wrote :

There appears to have been quite a few users of this bit of PIC code that takes the NMEA data from a GPS and uses this to calculate and display the LOCator, Lat / Long, Date +_Time plus SOG and COG data contained in the message on a two or four line LCD


The latest version of this code now includes a new Locator calculation algorithm that shows the 10 digit LOC, accurate to about 18m at mid latitudes. It also has compile time flags for NMEA baud rate, since the latest generation of GPS modules tend to now use 9600 baud; also the option of km/hour or miles/hour (there no room to show both). The display appears on a 20 char x 4 line LCD.


Full details in http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP which still includes the earlier versions for backwards compatibility. In view of the use of compile time flags this latest version is supplied as .ASM file only - you will need to assemble into a .HEX .


(The high-res locator calculation routine was developed initially to go in my 10GHz portable beacon project, allowing the transmitted Locator to be correct anywhere without having to reprogramme the controller PIC contents every time its location is changed).


Andy G4JNT

On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 10:14, Andy Talbot andy.g4jnt@... [ukmicrowaves]

wrote:

 

Yes, you're right.  the @@Ea command was for setting up its own binary protocol message type.

I've searched back in the archives and found one listing that included commands to set a Motorola GPS to send NMEA, as part of its setup.   Note the change of baud rate part way through as its native binary ran at 9600 baud, but NMEA standard is (was) 4800 baud

The Code is copied below.

So you are part correct in your setting, but you then need to issue the command to tell it what NMEA sentences to send, and how often.

Andy

InitGPS

movlw 0x40 ;@@Ci[01] Checksum [cr][lf]

call SendByte9600

movlw 0x40

call SendByte9600

movlw 0x43

call SendByte9600

movlw 0x69

call SendByte9600

movlw 0x01

call SendByte9600

movlw 0x2B

call SendByte9600

movlw 0x0D

call SendByte9600

movlw 0x0A

call SendByte9600

call Delay50

movlw "$" ;$PMOTG,RMC,0001 [cr][lf]

call SendByte4800

movlw "P"

call SendByte4800

movlw "M"

call SendByte4800

movlw "O"

call SendByte4800

movlw "T"

call SendByte4800

movlw "G"

call SendByte4800

movlw ","

call SendByte4800

movlw "R"

call SendByte4800

movlw "M"

call SendByte4800

movlw "C"

call SendByte4800

movlw ","

call SendByte4800

movlw "0"

call SendByte4800

movlw "0"

call SendByte4800

movlw "0"

call SendByte4800

movlw "1"

call SendByte4800

movlw 0x0D

call SendByte4800

movlw 0x0A

call SendByte4800

return

On 11 July 2016 at 09:56, 'g7jtt@...' g7jtt@... [ukmicrowaves] <ukmicrowaves@...> wrote:

 

Hi Andy was just about to suggest bringing the mini beacon out when I was about to reply to the GPS message. I'm sure it will generate quite a bit of interest as it did on its last outing. As to the Motorola GPS it was a freebie so will keep trying to get it to switch to NMEA can talk to it but just won't switch the command is @@Ci as far as I can tell. Anyway as you say it's old hat and there are may alternatives around even with programmable o/p from a few Hz to MHz so may upgrade one day.

 

To add a bit of "something different" I have my new portable mini-beacon on 10368.35MHz that I can take out to a spot - possibly Lane End as well as its one of the few decent sites around here.

JT4G message ONLY; just a few seconds of carrier and no dinosaur.   100mW to a 20dB horn so I'll need to know where to point it - Quantocks / Devon Dorset presumably.   Mob phone 07576 765856

ANdy  G4JNT

On 10 July 2016 at 21:25, g7jtt@... [ukmicrowaves] <ukmicrowaves@...> wrote:

 

Hi all just been speaking to Adrian G4UVZ who is going to go portable tomorrow from IO81LB06 and now Ed G3VPF will be at IO80QQ42. I will be at Lane end IO91JA37 we hope to be up and running between 6:30 to 7:00pm I will have to be gone by 9:00pm due to early start in the morning. So hopefully we can work a few of you all being well. 

John

On Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 at 9:32, Andy Talbot andy.g4jnt@... [ukmicrowaves]

wrote:

 

To add a bit of "something different" I have my new portable mini-beacon on 10368.35MHz that I can take out to a spot - possibly Lane End as well as its one of the few decent sites around here.

JT4G message ONLY; just a few seconds of carrier and no dinosaur.   100mW to a 20dB horn so I'll need to know where to point it - Quantocks / Devon Dorset presumably.   Mob phone 07576 765856

ANdy  G4JNT

On 10 July 2016 at 21:25, g7jtt@... [ukmicrowaves] <ukmicrowaves@...> wrote:

 

Hi all just been speaking to Adrian G4UVZ who is going to go portable tomorrow from IO81LB06 and now Ed G3VPF will be at IO80QQ42. I will be at Lane end IO91JA37 we hope to be up and running between 6:30 to 7:00pm I will have to be gone by 9:00pm due to early start in the morning. So hopefully we can work a few of you all being well. 

John