[time-nuts] Need some help with Motorola Oncore VP BackinBinarymode

[Bill Jones, K8CU]

Don,

Visit this web page for a description of adding a TAC-32 interface to the
Z3801A:

http://www.realhamradio.com/tac32-interface.htm

Bill, K8CU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Garlick" <DGarlick at garlickfamily.org>
To: <randy at geodetics.com>; "Discussion of precise time and frequency
measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Need some help with Motorola Oncore VP
BackinBinarymode


> I am not sure we are on the same page
> I cannot get this to work
>
> The gps board is inside the Z3801A and my computer serial port
> is connected to the Z3801A
>
> Will this work communicating through the Z3801A ?
>
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Randy Warner
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 3:33 PM
> To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Need some help with Motorola Oncore VP Back
> inBinarymode
>
> Don,
>
> Not a problem.
>
> 8 channel VP's are capable of sending out 6 channel messages just fine.
>
> Go to Rick Hambly's site:  http://www.cnssys.com/Tac32/ and download the
> eval copy of SynTaC. Actually, lots of the guys on this group probably
> have
> a copy already. Hook up your receiver and start TaC32. If the serial
> port is
> Com 1 the TaC32 program should start displaying data as soon as the eval
> splash screen is gone. If not, go into the <Edit> menu and set up the
> GPS
> interface for the right Com Port request the "Mot Bin" protocol, and
> then
> press <OK>. Tac32 should automatically poll the VP until it figures out
> what
> mode it is in (in your case NMEA) and then flip it to binary. If you
> have an
> antenna plugged in you should see satellite tracking, GPS fixes, etc. If
> you
> look in the lower right hand corner of the main window you should see
> something like: Motorola VP, 8 Ch, has DGPS..... I can't remember the
> actual
> wording. By default TaC32 enables the 8 channel @@Ea and @@En messages
> along
> with the @@Bb messages. To switch to 6 channel mode, click on <Data>,
> <Set
> Receiver Parameters>, and under "Special Purpose Modes" select
> "6-Channel
> Mode". When you click on <OK> Tac32 will turn off @@Ea and @@En and turn
> on
> @@Ba and @@Bn. @@Bb will stay the way it is. The lower right hand corner
> of
> the main window should now indicate that you are in 6 channel mode. The
> Z3801 should now work fine.
>
> About the battery: Just dragging down the battery will not clear the
> message
> formats on a VP. On the VP's all of the set-up info was stored in
> EEPROM.
> The only way to change things was to overwrite (as we just did here) or
> default the receiver with the @@Cf message.
>
> Let me know if you have any problems.
>
> Randy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Don Garlick
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 2:37 PM
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] Need some help with Motorola Oncore VP Back in
> Binarymode
>
> Hello I need a little help
>
>
>
> I bought a Oncore VP board with 8 channels for my Z3801
>
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250082966589&sspagena
> me=ADME:L:RTQ:US:1
>
>
>
> Motorola P/N: B8221Z1116
>
>
>
> This has a battery in it.
>
>
>
> It was tested by the seller by placing in the NMEA mode and left it in
> NMEA mode.
>
> Now the board he used to talk to it has failed so he cannot change it
> back.
>
>
>
> After I could not get it to work I tried draining the battery down to
> .07 volts.
>
>
>
> I still could not get it to work in the Z3801
>
>
>
> Put the old 6 channel back in and it works again
>
>
>
> http://gps.garlickfamily.org
>
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get it out of NMEA and back to binary?
>
>
>
> Thank You
>
> Don
>
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