"pilot" wrote in message
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The applications are somethings that I wrote in Visual Basic 6. One is
for navigation (piloting) with GPS, the other is to be used with an AIS
receiver. I am using one application at the time right now.
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I can put a Bluetooth to serial device on the AIS transmission and I
could go without a long cable.

So what you actually have is: one application that needs the GPS data over
bluetooth and a BT GPS, and one application that needs AIS data over
Bluetooth.

In that case, you indeed need a serial to BT converter on the Pilot Plug and
that's it. The BT interface on your laptop can handle at least 7 serial
devices at once, each one is paired to its own virtual com port number, for
instance the GPS to com10 and the Plilot Plug to com11. So the application
that needs the GPS opens com10 and the other neding AIS opens com11.

Meindert