Download Furuno GPS data?

Thanks Jack, I actually tried Hyperterminal first with no luck but i didnt
do it like u explained, ill give that another try. I thought there may be an
easy app to do it simpler.

"Jack Erbes" <jackerbes.RemoveThis@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> TheJouster wrote:
>
>> Hi, Our work vessel has a Furuno GP32 GPS. I am having trouble sending
>> the GPS data to my laptop for backup purposes. I know how to set the GPS
>> to send data, I just need an app to recieve the file. I've done this no
>> problem with Garmin and Micrologic GPS', but the same apps dont work with
>> the Furuno. Any info would be appriciated. Wejust got this new GPS
>> installed on our Tug and its sad cause we lost our old waypoints due to
>> lack of communication with our shore crew. I dont want that to happen
>> again.
>>
>
> If the Furuno sends that as ascii text via a serial port, maybe you can
> use Hyperterminal (that is included with Windows).
>
> To use that, start the Hyperterm, type in any name for the connection, in
> the Connect to: window select the COM port you expect the data to be sent
> to and click OK. On the settings select:
>
> 4800 (or whatever speed the Furuno is set to)
> 8
> None
> 1
> Hardware
>
> and click OK again. Click on Call and Call again and then send the data
> from the Furuno.
>
> If it is sent on the same port as NMEA data, you should see the NMEA data
> scrolling as soon as you connect.
>
> From the Transfer menu you can set it up to send the data to a file. Or
> you can copy it and paste in into Notepad, Wordpad or any word processor.
>
> Jack
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> --
> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)
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TheJouster wrote:

> Thanks Jack, I actually tried Hyperterminal first with no luck but i didnt
> do it like u explained, ill give that another try. I thought there may be an
> easy app to do it simpler.
>

Well maybe there is one. Look at GPS Utility at this link:
http://www.gpsu.co.uk/gpsrecs.html

They have a good freeware version that will let you test it. I have had
the registered version of GPSU for a few years and use it regularly to
upload and download waypoints and routes from several Magellan handheld
GPS units.

It is also great for reviewing and editing routes and for editing the
names and comments of waypoints. You can also download and view
trackpoints as a list and plotted. Any of the data GPSU will collect
can be displayed overlaid on bit mapped raster image maps too. I'm not
sure how much of that applies to your Furuno but it's worth looking at.

It looks like the GP32 expects the sending process to be started from
the GP32, so I'm not quite sure how GPSU handles that. On my Magellans
GPSU finds the GPS (I have to tell it the port settings) and gets or
sends the stuff.

Here is the manual for the GP32 if you don't have one. The capability
to do what you want to do is there but the procedure for doing it seems
a little more complicated than it needs to be.

http://tinyurl.com/btfu8

It may just be me but it seems like when I use Furuno stuff I go through
a period of frustration trying to get it set up, then make a call to a
Furuno tech support guy who usually tells me "ignore the manual, it is
screwed up, do this instead...", and then I get it going and it works
beautifully.

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)
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I think you have to use a Furuno-aware piece of software. Otherwise you will
face difficulties when trying to send them back to the GPS.

I think there are freeware around. I'm using a danish free-ware
(http://www.sejlsport.dk/graphics/ds/DSTur/Progs/GPSLink_exe-fil.zip) that
come with a PC navigation package. It has a Furuno capability dll
(http://www.ridax.se/furuno.dll) that can be downloaded from
http://www.ridax.se/marine.htm.

I realise that it's i swedish/danish, but it should be straightforward to
either find a similar in us/english software or to learn the 3-4 danish
words that it takes. I'm happy to help.

/Bjarke

"TheJouster" <the.RemoveThis@jouster.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Jack, I actually tried Hyperterminal first with no luck but i didnt
> do it like u explained, ill give that another try. I thought there may be
> an easy app to do it simpler.
>
> "Jack Erbes" <jackerbes.RemoveThis@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:NZ-dnXzQ-ae-lTfenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@adelphia.com...
>> TheJouster wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Our work vessel has a Furuno GP32 GPS. I am having trouble sending
>>> the GPS data to my laptop for backup purposes. I know how to set the GPS
>>> to send data, I just need an app to recieve the file. I've done this no
>>> problem with Garmin and Micrologic GPS', but the same apps dont work
>>> with the Furuno. Any info would be appriciated. Wejust got this new GPS
>>> installed on our Tug and its sad cause we lost our old waypoints due to
>>> lack of communication with our shore crew. I dont want that to happen
>>> again.
>>>
>>
>> If the Furuno sends that as ascii text via a serial port, maybe you can
>> use Hyperterminal (that is included with Windows).
>>
>> To use that, start the Hyperterm, type in any name for the connection, in
>> the Connect to: window select the COM port you expect the data to be sent
>> to and click OK. On the settings select:
>>
>> 4800 (or whatever speed the Furuno is set to)
>> 8
>> None
>> 1
>> Hardware
>>
>> and click OK again. Click on Call and Call again and then send the data
>> from the Furuno.
>>
>> If it is sent on the same port as NMEA data, you should see the NMEA data
>> scrolling as soon as you connect.
>>
>> From the Transfer menu you can set it up to send the data to a file. Or
>> you can copy it and paste in into Notepad, Wordpad or any word processor.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
>> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)
>
>
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"Jack Erbes" <jackerbes.RemoveThis@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
>
> Thanks for the reference, I'm surprised I have not found that (or its
> Windows-CE version) before in my previous quests for terminal programs
> for PCs and PDAs. I'm going to try it on Windows 2000 and a Pocket PC.
> Have you used it on those?

I use it on W2K and it is the only terminal program I use. I do quite a lot
of embedded design where systems communicate through a serial port and I
always use TeraTerm for that.

> As always the best way to pry knowledge out of the professionals is to
> fumble around in their presence doing something the hard way.

That is a good one! )

> Best of the Season to you Meindert! And thanks for your help here!

Thanks and all the best to you too Jack!

Meindert
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here you will find a utility that work with Furuno GP30 (on the oziexplorer
homepage)

http://64.71.184.220/utils/furuno.zip

maybe it will work with the GP32 as well

"TheJouster" <the.DeleteThis@jouster.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, Our work vessel has a Furuno GP32 GPS. I am having trouble sending the
> GPS data to my laptop for backup purposes. I know how to set the GPS to
> send data, I just need an app to recieve the file. I've done this no
> problem with Garmin and Micrologic GPS', but the same apps dont work with
> the Furuno. Any info would be appriciated. Wejust got this new GPS
> installed on our Tug and its sad cause we lost our old waypoints due to
> lack of communication with our shore crew. I dont want that to happen
> again.
>
>
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Download Furuno GPS data? 

Thanks for all the input, much appriciated!


"ll" <gg DeleteThis @cdp.com> wrote in message
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> here you will find a utility that work with Furuno GP30 (on the
> oziexplorer homepage)
>
> http://64.71.184.220/utils/furuno.zip
>
> maybe it will work with the GP32 as well
>
> "TheJouster" <the DeleteThis @jouster.com> wrote in message
> news:DPkqf.811$AP5.445@edtnps84...
>> Hi, Our work vessel has a Furuno GP32 GPS. I am having trouble sending
>> the GPS data to my laptop for backup purposes. I know how to set the GPS
>> to send data, I just need an app to recieve the file. I've done this no
>> problem with Garmin and Micrologic GPS', but the same apps dont work with
>> the Furuno. Any info would be appriciated. Wejust got this new GPS
>> installed on our Tug and its sad cause we lost our old waypoints due to
>> lack of communication with our shore crew. I dont want that to happen
>> again.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Download Furuno GPS data? 

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:38:27 GMT, "TheJouster" <the DeleteThis @jouster.com>
wrote:

>Hi, Our work vessel has a Furuno GP32 GPS. I am having trouble sending the
>GPS data to my laptop for backup purposes. I know how to set the GPS to send
>data, I just need an app to recieve the file. I've done this no problem with
>Garmin and Micrologic GPS', but the same apps dont work with the Furuno. Any
>info would be appriciated. Wejust got this new GPS installed on our Tug and
>its sad cause we lost our old waypoints due to lack of communication with
>our shore crew. I dont want that to happen again.

There are three links on my GPS/NMEA site below to programs that will
talk to some Furuno receivers.


--
Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
new newsgroup users info : http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq
GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter
Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca
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