Garmin 162 NMEA ?

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 13th, 2004, 2:00 pm

Am having the damdest time getting the 162 to send the info to the VHF (Uniden Polaris). Blue on 162 and green on VHF, so it must be in the 162 NMEA setup.

Post by **Tom Keels** » September 13th, 2004, 2:12 pm

Do you have the GPS transmitting via NMEA? You have to set the communications in the GPS to NMEA 0183. Also the negative NMEA wire from the radio has to be grounded.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 13th, 2004, 2:32 pm

Thanks Tom, I asked Garmin and they said same thing about the ground, need to do that. I went into the 162 setup and changed to do NMEA, so will have to see.

Post by **Tom Keels** » September 13th, 2004, 3:17 pm

The grounding was my headache too. Remembering to switch the comms back to NMEA after using on the computer was another.

Post by **Tom Keels** » September 14th, 2004, 9:14 am

Did you get it working?

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 14th, 2004, 9:22 am

Nothing but rain, did not even go out there, will see about today.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 14th, 2004, 4:59 pm

Freakin ground drivin me crazy. The book shows the bare wire as the ground, but I be damed, I tried grounding rhis thin.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 14th, 2004, 7:14 pm

This is freakin crazy, the Uniden manual has this for the ACC connector.

Orange - Ext speaker (+)
Black - Ext speaker (-)
Green - GPS data in
Red - DC 13.8V
Bare Wire - Ground
Brown - Hailer (+) horn speaker
Blue - Hailer (-) horn speaker

NOTE: DC 13.8 and GND are for GPS ANT.

Yea if I hook Green to GPS blue which is NMEA out, and bare to a ground I do not get data. Been int the NMEA setup, but nota.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 15th, 2004, 9:20 am

Dam, Uniden says to send in VHF for firmware update.

Post by **Tom Keels** » September 15th, 2004, 9:24 am

Dump that uniden crap and get a standard horizon and be done with it.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 15th, 2004, 11:14 am

Lets see here, when I had the Eagle it sent data to the Uniden with just 1 wire. Now I get a Garmin and have to get the firmware updated because Garmin is different.

Post by **tin can** » September 15th, 2004, 7:45 pm

Life is tough.

Post by **Tidedancer** » September 21st, 2004, 5:58 pm

Hang in there Don. You will get it fixed soon. Garmin is good stuff, but they have some funny ways of doing things sometime.

I hope you are enjoying your new ride. Cooler weather is just around the conner here. It was 57 at Gyspy Bay this morning.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 22nd, 2004, 6:47 am

I don't know TD, storm, storm, etc, etc. I have not been outside the lake yet.