GPS Problem

[jbob42]

Using a Garmin GPS, WirelssMon is only able to obtain latitude and not longitude settings. It tells me it has a GPS signal with 5 Sats, but if I look in the LOGS or the MAP screen, only the LATITUDE is valid. Here is a line from the GPS log:

$GPGGA,145314,4145.9344,N,07240.5714,W,1,04,1.7,33 .9,M,-33.6,M,,*4E

so when looking at the map screen, I get:

Lat: 41.xxxxx (converted to decimal)
Lon: 0.000000
OFF MAP (of course)

in the AP Logs and connectedAPLogs, the last 2 columns read:

41.765530,0.000000

any quick tricks to fix this problem?

Thanks!

[jbob42]

some more info

After taking my laptop indoors (0 satellites acquired), the GPS continued to send its last known coordinates. The MAP page in WirelessMon, however, behaved a little differently. It kept alternating the Longitude value between 0.00000 and 7240.55280

The output now from the GPS:
$GPGGA,154301,4145.8979,N,07240.5528,W,0,00,,,M,,M ,,*4D

[jbob42]

I did enable all of the other NMEA sentences to no avail. Previously, just GPGGA was selected.

[jbob42]

Also, for the latitude, WirelessMon is doing a correct conversion between the NMEA output and dd.ddddd format. i.e. 4145.xxxx converts to approx 41.76xxx in WirelessMon.

[Tim (PassMark)]

Thanks for reporting this, i believe it has been fixed in this debug build http://www.passmark.com/ftp/wirelessmon1005.exe. Could you please run this version and let us know if it fixes the problem.

[jbob42]

Yes! It fixed the problem. Thanks for a great piece of software. I will definitely be purchasing it.

[Tim (PassMark)]

The newest build of WirelessMon is now available from http://www.passmark.com/ftp/wirelessmon.exe.