T&T: Connecting new GPS with older Raytheon radar

[Peter Bennett]

There have been a few versions of NMEA-0183, adding new sentences and
declaring others as obsolete.  My Garmin 12XL can be set to send
either version 1.5 or 2.0, and they're up to version 3 now I think.

Thursday, December 11, 2008, 5:57:38 PM, Scott wrote:

SHEW> Peter Bennett <peterbb4 at interchange.ubc.ca> writes:
>>Yes - NMEA occasionally adds new sentences but I think most things
>>will still work.  If your GPS has a choice of NMEA versions, you may
>>need to use the earlier version.

SHEW> For what it's worth, the "0183" in NMEA-0183 refers to "Version 01, 1983", so
SHEW> the radar (made in 1990) should have no problems receiving data NMEA-0183
SHEW> data from a modern GPS.

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