Do you guys know that Maptech Chartbooks now come with electronic charts CD as well as software? All at a great price...very very slick...It all works great with my Garmin GPS 76CS. I am now trying to hook up my Garmin GPS 10 and can't get the Maptech software to talk to it. Does anyone have any experience with it?
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Not with the GPS10, but...
I use the Maptech Offshor Navigator Lite with my notebook PC and whatever serial GPS source is available on the boat. It was my Raymarine unit, then a Garmin unit, now my new Furuno GP32. The only difficult issue has been getting the Maptech software to find and use the GPS information. This is because I must use an RS-232 to USB converter, and the intervening conversion and driver software cunfuses things. Sometimes the PC thinks the GPS data is a mouse! You should see hte mouse flying around the screen. I guess your issue is to make the Bluetooth device on teh computer look like a Com port to Offshore Navigator.
I use the Maptech Offshor Navigator Lite with my notebook PC and whatever serial GPS source is available on the boat. It was my Raymarine unit, then a Garmin unit, now my new Furuno GP32. The only difficult issue has been getting the Maptech software to find and use the GPS information. This is because I must use an RS-232 to USB converter, and the intervening conversion and driver software cunfuses things. Sometimes the PC thinks the GPS data is a mouse! You should see hte mouse flying around the screen. I guess your issue is to make the Bluetooth device on teh computer look like a Com port to Offshore Navigator.
Try "telling" it you have a different unit
as I learned to do via tech support at Maptech. They advised to bypass the auto set up feature. You may have to experiment a little, but Garmin uses a proprietary transfer protocol that will/may confuse things. For example, Offshore Lite "thinks" my Garmin 72 is a 276cs plotter. Works fine. If a little experimenting is unsuccessful, give their support guys a call for suggestions.
as I learned to do via tech support at Maptech. They advised to bypass the auto set up feature. You may have to experiment a little, but Garmin uses a proprietary transfer protocol that will/may confuse things. For example, Offshore Lite "thinks" my Garmin 72 is a 276cs plotter. Works fine. If a little experimenting is unsuccessful, give their support guys a call for suggestions.
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