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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:26:35 -0700, "William Andersen"
wrote: Garmin's always answered my emails within a couple of days. In the meantime, did you use the Comm Tab of the Main Menu to set Com 1 and Com 2 to NMEA In/NMEA Out? "Jean-Pierre Trolet" wrote in message ... Hello, I have e-mailed the problem to their tech support but as I read here and there that they never answer.... In the owner's manual p.26 Garmin gives the list of data that can be displayed in text format through alphabetical order : - .... - POINTER - POSITION - SONAR - SPEED - .... When you actually run through the scrolling list you find - .... - POINTER - SONAR - SPEED - .... So there is no way to display the current position coordinates on any page except by entering Mark and then deleting the waypoint thus created, which is stupid. Has anyone met the problem ? A GPS that cannot display the position , that sounds downright incredible !! I checked that I have the latest software version : 2.50 Friendly Jean-Pierre TROLET If the tech support really answers , that is reassuring , but I am still waiting. I do not understand the connection between the NMEA in/out and the display of the GPS. Of course you can display the position in text format on a laptop that decodes NMEA but that's not my purpose. Jean-Pierre |
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If you haven't heard from Garmin yet, you should call them or return the GPS
to where you bought it. POSITION should appear in that list and you should be able to display your latitude/longitude on the Map page and probably some other pages, too. "Jean-Pierre Trolet" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:26:35 -0700, "William Andersen" wrote: Garmin's always answered my emails within a couple of days. In the meantime, did you use the Comm Tab of the Main Menu to set Com 1 and Com 2 to NMEA In/NMEA Out? "Jean-Pierre Trolet" wrote in message ... Hello, I have e-mailed the problem to their tech support but as I read here and there that they never answer.... In the owner's manual p.26 Garmin gives the list of data that can be displayed in text format through alphabetical order : - .... - POINTER - POSITION - SONAR - SPEED - .... When you actually run through the scrolling list you find - .... - POINTER - SONAR - SPEED - .... So there is no way to display the current position coordinates on any page except by entering Mark and then deleting the waypoint thus created, which is stupid. Has anyone met the problem ? A GPS that cannot display the position , that sounds downright incredible !! I checked that I have the latest software version : 2.50 Friendly Jean-Pierre TROLET If the tech support really answers , that is reassuring , but I am still waiting. I do not understand the connection between the NMEA in/out and the display of the GPS. Of course you can display the position in text format on a laptop that decodes NMEA but that's not my purpose. Jean-Pierre |
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:05:51 -0700, "William Andersen"
wrote: If you haven't heard from Garmin yet, you should call them or return the GPS to where you bought it. POSITION should appear in that list and you should be able to display your latitude/longitude on the Map page and probably some other pages, too. "Jean-Pierre Trolet" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:26:35 -0700, "William Andersen" wrote: Garmin's always answered my emails within a couple of days. In the meantime, did you use the Comm Tab of the Main Menu to set Com 1 and Com 2 to NMEA In/NMEA Out? "Jean-Pierre Trolet" wrote in message ... Hello, I have e-mailed the problem to their tech support but as I read here and there that they never answer.... In the owner's manual p.26 Garmin gives the list of data that can be displayed in text format through alphabetical order : - .... - POINTER - POSITION - SONAR - SPEED - .... When you actually run through the scrolling list you find - .... - POINTER - SONAR - SPEED - .... So there is no way to display the current position coordinates on any page except by entering Mark and then deleting the waypoint thus created, which is stupid. Has anyone met the problem ? A GPS that cannot display the position , that sounds downright incredible !! I checked that I have the latest software version : 2.50 Friendly Jean-Pierre TROLET You are right. I think I'll call Garmin if they don't reply to my mail .. I will not return it to the provider since it is was ordered online from compass.com in GB and I can't expect any help from them. Those do not seem to know what they sell : they sent me an internal aerial type whereas I had ordered an external aerial type : the explanation they gave is that the ad on their site had a mistake in it . If you try to order a 172C from their site you can get anything but what you've ordered (and do not trust their references , they are useless and false) . Appalling !! Jean-Pierre TROLET |
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