the puck is on comm 8, running the data stream.  I will try to cut and paste, but also, how do I attach a file to this note?  (Sorry about my nav skills).

pjl

see below:
$GPGGA,122203.486,,,,,0,00,,,M,0.0,M,,0000*5C
$GPGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*1E
$GPRMC,122203.486,V,,,,,,,290718,,*20
$GPGGA,122204.486,,,,,0,00,,,M,0.0,M,,0000*5B
$GPGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*1E
$GPGSV,3,1,12,11,38,160,39,18,26,135,27,07,77,298,,08,69,065,*71
$GPGSV,3,2,12,30,45,307,,27,33,047,,28,26,273,,09,25,209,*76
$GPGSV,3,3,12,01,12,156,,16,06,076,,23,06,184,,13,02,330,*70
$GPRMC,122204.486,V,,,,,,,290718,,*27
,11,18,08,28,,,,,,,,,5.2,2.7,4.5*3A
$GPRMC,122812.000,A,4223.4178,N,08253.8153,W,0.88,93.15,290718,,*2E
$GPGGA,122813.000,4223.4178,N,08253.8149,W,1,03,4.1,211.3,M,-34.0,M,,0000*6D
$GPGSA,A,2,11,18,08,,,,,,,,,,4.2,4.1,1.0*30
$GPRMC,122813.000,A,4223.4178,N,08253.8149,W,1.07,86.42,290718,,*24
$GPGGA,122814.000,4223.4180,N,08253.8154,W,1,04,2.7,210.2,M,-34.0,M,,0000*66
$GPGSA,A,3,11,18,08,28,,,,,,,,,5.2,2.7,4.5*3A
$GPGSV,3,1,12,07,80,289,,08,67,060,20,30,47,307,25,11,41,159,35*74
$GPGSV,3,2,12,27,30,047,,18,29,133,30,28,28,275,19,09,23,207,30*78
$GPGSV,3,3,12,01,15,155,,13,04,329,,16,04,078,,23,04,183,*73
$GPRMC,122814.000,A,4223.4180,N,08253.8154,W,0.29,146.99,290718,,*1E
$GPGGA,122815.000,4223.4179,N,08253.8159,W,1,04,2.7,208.8,M,-34.0,M,,0000*6F
$GPGSA,A,3,11,18,08,28,,,,,,,,,5.2,2.7,4.5*3A
$GPRMC,122815.000,A,4223.4179,N,08253.8159,W,0.24,129.03,290718,,*13
$GPGGA,122816.000,4223.4177,N,08253.8166,W,1,05,2.4,206.4,M,-34.0,M,,0000*6E
$GPGSA,A,3,11,18,08,07,28,,,,,,,,3.8,2.4,3.0*30
$GPRMC,122816.000,A,4223.4177,N,08253.8166,W,0.16,320.10,290718,,*1A
$GPGGA,122817.000,4223.4177,N,08253.8162,W,1,05,2.4,203.7,M,-34.0,M,,0000*6D
$GPGSA,A,3,11,18,08,07,28,,,,,,,,3.8,2.4,3.0*30
$GPRMC,122817.000,A,4223.4

 

It might not have been a valid fix? The GGA sentence above looks ok at first sight.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | 12 13 14 15
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$--GGA,hhmmss.ss,llll.ll,a,yyyyy.yy,a,x,xx,x.x,x.x,M,x.x,M,x.x,xxxx*hh
1) Time (UTC)
2) Latitude
3) N or S (North or South)
4) Longitude
5) E or W (East or West)
6) GPS Quality Indicator,
0 - fix not available,
1 - GPS fix,
2 - Differential GPS fix
7) Number of satellites in view, 00 - 12
8) Horizontal Dilution of precision
9) Antenna Altitude above/below mean-sea-level (geoid)
10) Units of antenna altitude, meters
11) Geoidal separation, the difference between the WGS-84 earth
ellipsoid and mean-sea-level (geoid), "-" means mean-sea-level below ellipsoid
12) Units of geoidal separation, meters
13) Age of differential GPS data, time in seconds since last SC104
type 1 or 9 update, null field when DGPS is not used
14) Differential reference station ID, 0000-1023
15) Checksum

when using the garmin2exp app to get GPS, is there a way to look at the raw data stream?

thx, pjl