Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.misc:546 comp.sys.ibm.pc:27240 rec.boats:1483
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!akk2
From: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,rec.boats
Subject: Interfacing a PC to LORAN equipment
Message-ID: <1470@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 21:02:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
Lines: 15

This is a posting for someone else, so the terminology may not
be exactly right...

Boats use a communications protocol called NIMEA 0182/3 (?) to interface
navigational instruments with each other and with control devices (i.e.
Lorans to auto-pilots).  Does anyone know or have information on how
to use a laptop PC to obtain the information from these devices in a usable
form?  Is there a company that makes hardware/software gizmos to translate
the NIMEA protocol to say an RS-232 type ?

Thanks
Atul Kacker
akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

[Please e-mail, since I doubt this will be of general interest]