one of the GPS recedivers im considering communicates according to the protocol specified in NMEA 0183, Version 3.01. This specification costs around $300, which at the moment i cant afford. im wondering whether there are any other methods of doing this. any help in this regard is appreciated.
NMEA 0183, Version 3.01 specification
Oct 06, 2007
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Just for GPS you don't need the spec. The GPS portion of NMEA is well understood and well documented by hobbyists. Besides, NMEA transmit data in ASCII text so it's easily human readable, debugged and reverse engineered.
The following sites have been helpful to me:
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Especially this one because it documents a lot of the quirks of different GPS receivers which you definitely wouldn't get with the official NMEA spec:
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thanks a lot for the information. ill be going through your suggestions.
See the NMEA FAQ on
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That is based on version 2 (or so) and my observations of the output of some receivers. I think the newer versions may add a few new sentences, and recommend that some older sentences not be used.
NMEA-0183 (any version) is basically plain ASCII text sent at 4800 baud. It should be fairly easy to figure out the content of the sentences by comparing the data to that displayed by the GPS (and/or applying some common sense...)
Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
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