I am going to download Sea Clear (free) and some NOAA charts (also free) to my home desktop so that I can get familiar with how it all works (I am used to Offshore Navigator). Then I am going to do all this again on a new laptop for the boat. What is the latest and greatest and almost free hockey puck GPS? Where do you buy them? I'll use this GPS to let the desktop find it and get acquainted before I use it on the new laptop. Laptops are not free but they are getting down there in price. Thanks RC NT 42 Punta Gorda

i don't think any of them are the greatest... the most important thing to consider is your operating system. If you have or will have Vista, then make sure the unit comes with vista driver; I have a delorme LT20 which works fine on my older laptop under XP, unfortunately Delorme hasn't released any vista driver... so it's now collecting dust somewhere... If your laptop has bluetooth, i 'd recommend a BT GPS. I got G-sat BT386 which works very well. it's rechargeable (via USB or 120v adapter) , last about 10 hours or can be powered by either souce. Works prefectly with SeaclearII and OpenCPN (which i prefer to Seaclear), as well as goops to upload live tracking. Easy to set up. with a Bluetooth GPS, i'd recommend donwloading Franson GPSgate, only $12 and allows you to share the signal between two programs; for some reason, it also seems to increase BT reliability as a bonus, you can use the GPS with most cel phone and link it to google maps. Pascal ----- Original Message ----- From: <Seasalt007@aol.com> To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:28 PM Subject: T&T: Hockey Puck GPS >I am going to download Sea Clear (free) and some NOAA charts (also free) to > my home desktop so that I can get familiar with how it all works (I am > used to Offshore Navigator). Then I am going to do all this again on a > new > laptop for the boat. > > What is the latest and greatest and almost free hockey puck GPS? Where do > you buy them? > > I'll use this GPS to let the desktop find it and get acquainted before I > use it on the new laptop. Laptops are not free but they are getting down > there in price. > > Thanks > > RC > NT 42 > Punta Gorda > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change > email address, etc) go to: > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/trawlers-and-trawlering > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited. 17:51:00

NB... the delorme serial emulator, and most XP drivers, shoudl work under Vista, what they dont' work on is 64bit vista! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal Gademer" <pascal@sandbarhopper.com> To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:37 AM Subject: Re: T&T: Hockey Puck GPS >i don't think any of them are the greatest... the most important thing to > consider is your operating system. If you have or will have Vista, then > make sure the unit comes with vista driver; I have a delorme LT20 which > works fine on my older laptop under XP, unfortunately Delorme hasn't > released any vista driver... so it's now collecting dust somewhere... > > If your laptop has bluetooth, i 'd recommend a BT GPS. I got G-sat BT386 > which works very well. it's rechargeable (via USB or 120v adapter) , last > about 10 hours or can be powered by either souce. Works prefectly with > SeaclearII and OpenCPN (which i prefer to Seaclear), as well as goops to > upload live tracking. Easy to set up. > > with a Bluetooth GPS, i'd recommend donwloading Franson GPSgate, only $12 > and allows you to share the signal between two programs; for some reason, > it also seems to increase BT reliability > > as a bonus, you can use the GPS with most cel phone and link it to google > maps. > > Pascal > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Seasalt007@aol.com> > To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:28 PM > Subject: T&T: Hockey Puck GPS > > >>I am going to download Sea Clear (free) and some NOAA charts (also free) >>to >> my home desktop so that I can get familiar with how it all works (I am >> used to Offshore Navigator). Then I am going to do all this again on a >> new >> laptop for the boat. >> >> What is the latest and greatest and almost free hockey puck GPS? Where do >> you buy them? >> >> I'll use this GPS to let the desktop find it and get acquainted before I >> use it on the new laptop. Laptops are not free but they are getting down >> there in price. >> >> Thanks >> >> RC >> NT 42 >> Punta Gorda >> _______________________________________________ >> http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering >> >> To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change >> email address, etc) go to: >> http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/trawlers-and-trawlering >> >> Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World >> Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited. > 17:51:00 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change > email address, etc) go to: > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/trawlers-and-trawlering > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited. 05:50:00

'Lo All, On an older thread..... I asked DeLorme if the LT20 would work on my 64-bit laptop which uses Vista Home Premium as the operating system. They said it would, so ordered one - the $19.95 (?) one that was pointed out in the thread - and received it the other day. Tried it out and it works perfectly on my laptop, using their Street Atlas USA (a rather clunky program). It even displayed elevation (3D) about right. I did have to get it totally clear of trees or any other intervening obstructions. Out on the dock, it locked onto 11 satellites (I think it was). Later, I installed Sea Clear, but have not tried it yet with the LT20. If memory serves correctly, there was a discussion some time ago about getting Sea Clear to recognize a DeLorme GPS - and most importantly - how to configure Sea Clear to do so. IF there was a thread on this, could someone kindly tell me the approximate date/author so I can find it in the archives (or send me the info)? Thanks in advance. Take care and be safe. Wayne Celestial Albin 43 Sundeck Near Panama City, FL

when i upgraded my laptop to an HP touchsreen running vista 64, i coudlnt' find a way to get the LT20 to work with either SeaClear, OpenCPN or Goops. searching the delorme website confirmed that their driver (Serial emulator) will not work on 64b. machines. makes them useless on boats... I got a Bluetooth GPS instead, works great, with my laptop and google maps on my Win Mobile phone. pascal miami, fl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albin43SDtr" <Albin43SDtr@comcast.net> To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:12 AM Subject: Re: T&T: Hockey Puck GPS > 'Lo All, > > On an older thread..... I asked DeLorme if the LT20 would work on my > 64-bit laptop which uses Vista Home Premium as the operating system. > They said it would, so ordered one - the $19.95 (?) one that was > pointed out in the thread - and received it the other day. Tried it > out and it works perfectly on my laptop, using their Street Atlas USA > (a rather clunky program). It even displayed elevation (3D) about > right. I did have to get it totally clear of trees or any other > intervening obstructions. Out on the dock, it locked onto 11 > satellites (I think it was). > > Later, I installed Sea Clear, but have not tried it yet with the > LT20. If memory serves correctly, there was a discussion some time > ago about getting Sea Clear to recognize a DeLorme GPS - and most > importantly - how to configure Sea Clear to do so. IF there was a > thread on this, could someone kindly tell me the approximate > date/author so I can find it in the archives (or send me the info)? > Thanks in advance. > > > Take care and be safe. > > Wayne > Celestial > Albin 43 Sundeck > Near Panama City, FL > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change > email address, etc) go to: > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/trawlers-and-trawlering > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited. 07:49:00