Cambridge GPS NAV Model 20 Recorder and a USB only Computer?

Excuse this blatant plug for an instrument I manufacture.
Have a look at the FlarmNav. It will allow you to download your flight
log to a USB mem-stick from your Model 20 in-situ.
It also provides some basic nav functions and allows loading of a
turnpoint database. Soon we will be offering a wind vector function as
well.
http://www.rf-developments.com/shop/...d&productId=10

With the current exchange rate between Australia and USA it's a
steal!!

Cheers
Mark

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:28:08 -0700, jcarlyle wrote:

I'm pretty sure this is a religious question as regards M$!

Not particularly. Its more driven by curiosity about why their driver
interface specification isn't stable between OS versions. Judging by the
difficulty they had in coming up with API documentation to meet the
European court case and the poor quality of what was published, its
possible thew API wasn't documented and all their code design has been
done by word of mouth and uncommented header files.

Larry's answer
was that they didn't care enough about the customer to write a decent
driver. Since that violated his business sense, he quit selling their
product...

That fits with the impression I've got of the man. We need more like him,
especially in the finance industry.


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KevinFinke wrote:
Anybody out there use a Serial to USB adapter to transfer flights from
their Cambridge Model 20 GPS-NAV? Does it work? Any problems? Which
model adapter do you use?

I'm planning on upgrading my equipment, and I won't have a 9 pin
serial port on my new computer? I'd like to get rid of my old computer
and just have one.

Perhaps using an old Ipaq that has a memory card would be good solution:
leave the Model 20 in the glider, transfer the flight to the memory card
in the Ipaq, then take the Ipaq or just the card home to the computer.

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