T&T: USB GPS

[Jim Ague]

> Any thoughts about which of these GPS recievers is better both same price.
>
> This one is 12 channel:
>
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=UT-41&cat=GPS
>
> This one is 16 channel:
>
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GPS-MS-GM-03A&cat=GPS
>
I just received the 16 channel one and installed it. The package comes with 
limited documentation, even on the CD, and a driver that takes the USB input 
and shuttles it to a COM port. This surprised me.

I figured I would simply click the USB GPS box within DeLorme Street Atlas 
and viola! Instead I needed to run the Windows Device Manager to find the 
COM port the driver had chosen and tell DeLorme which COM port that the 
input was arriving on. A nice side benefit is that this let the device drive 
Nobeltec's VNS 6.5 which doesn't have a USB option box.

Another nice surprise is that the cursor isn't doing a Brownian Movement on 
account of the  USB to COM port driver.

The GPS puck is about 2 inches in diameter and has a magnetic bottom so it 
can ride on the roof of a car. Sitting on the windowsill of the condo on a 
rainy day, it acquired very fast, well within the limits of my impatience.

-- Jim Ague