K4NNW
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A while back in a truck stop somewhere, I noticed that Rand McNally had a new truck-oriented GPS (TND Tablet) that ran Android OS. Also, the Garmin Monterra (marketed as a hiking GPS) and the soon-to-be-released Magellan RoadMate RC9485T-LMB (another truck GPS) run Android.
This got me pondering about using these units (instead of an Android phone or tablet) to display APRS waypoints in a similar fashion to the way that some of us have been using old serial-port-equipped units like the Garmin x76 series for years. There are quite a few folks using Bluetooth to connect Android phones to APRS hardware like the TNC-X, so why not use these? To be fair, the Monterra doesn't do Bluetooth, but the others do.
Have any of y'all done this with these (or similar units)?
This got me pondering about using these units (instead of an Android phone or tablet) to display APRS waypoints in a similar fashion to the way that some of us have been using old serial-port-equipped units like the Garmin x76 series for years. There are quite a few folks using Bluetooth to connect Android phones to APRS hardware like the TNC-X, so why not use these? To be fair, the Monterra doesn't do Bluetooth, but the others do.
Have any of y'all done this with these (or similar units)?