Here's my follow up, for the benefit of those of you who, like me try to
learn something from this newsgroup.
I had suspected corrosion in the DB9 connector on the end of the Furuno
radar cable, where the wires to the radio are also connected, because , even
though we checked for continuity, we thought the NMEA signal isn't strong,
and may not be getting through.
I decided to try, one more time, as long as we had the boat out last night.
I verified the GPS was set for NMEA/NMEA and lowered the BAUD rate to 4800.
Bingo!
NMEA data displayed on radar and VHF-FM radio.
I never paid any attention to the BAUD rate before. I will from now on,
because it's evident that the radio and radar don't listen to higher speeds.
How nice to have course and speed displayed on the radar again - where
almost anyone in the boat can see it. The GPS is a handheld, mounted for the
helmsman and difficult for others to read.


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:20:46 -0700, "William G. Andersen"
wrote:

What would you check in this situation?

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Check the "setup" options on your GPS to ensure that the data out
function or settings have not been inadvertantly changed.