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Old February 16th 10, 08:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tim Taylor
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Default Help needed with communication between a Colibri and IPAQ

On Feb 15, 2:48*am, Basil wrote:
In my experience LX connect will work at any speed except 4800. *If I
changed the collibri to 9600 it downloaded fine. *Bit of a nuisance as
winpilot will only work at 4800.



Thanks to everyone for hints and suggestions! I am glad I did this on
the work bench and not in the glider.

After several days of playing with the system I have found that both
ConnectMe (ConnectLX is the same with only LX drivers) and Pocket
StrePla Connect will work at 4800 baud.

Pocket StrePla Connect is by far more reliable and has better error
handling so it does not lock up. The only negative is it produces
a .FIL file type rather than an .igc file when downloading the data to
the PDA with a Colibri.

ConnectMe will work but requires fiddling to get it to connect
sometimes and works perfectly other times. It is more prone to
locking up the PDA and requiring a reset. The positive is it does
translate the files into an .igc file when downloading to the PDA.

I will likely keep both programs on the IPAQ and use ConnectMe as the
main program as long as it works and use Pocket StrePla Connect as a
backup if I can't get ConnectMe to cooperate.