{"id":2669,"date":"2010-05-23T19:25:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2010-05-23T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T19:25:38","slug":"avmap-g5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/23\/avmap-g5\/","title":{"rendered":"AvMap G5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/avmapg5.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"400\" height=\"346\" \/>My GPS of choice for the last two years has been the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2072\">Garmin Nuvi 350<\/a>. It interfaced nicely with the Kenwood TM-D710A using an Argent Data Systems cable. Everything was working great with the Nuvi up until I placed it in our washing machine. You are probably thinking that there is a better way to clean a GPS than to put it in a washing machine and I would absolutely agree with you. I took the Nuvi with me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2636\">Dayton<\/a> and then packed it, safely wrapped in my clothes, for the return trip. Well &#8211; you can probably figure out what happen from there. Being newly GPSless, I decided to look into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avmap.us\/\">AvMap G5<\/a> (which I had been drooling over for a while). Installation was super easy. The AvMap G5 comes with a hardcore suction mount, which I like much better than the beanbag mount that I had with the Nuvi. There is one connection to power the AvMap G5 via a 12v cigarette lighter and the other for data between the AvMap G5 and the TM-D710A (and all necessary cables are INCLUDED). With one or two settings completed on the AvMap G5, the GPS and TM-D710A were talking together perfectly. W6GPS has a series of YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/w6gps\">videos<\/a> touting the AvMap G5 and all it can do. The AvMap G5 is suppose to also work with the TH-D7A &#8211; I am interested to try and experiment with that. The benefits I have identified of the AvMap G5 over the Nuvi is (1) its plotting of APRS icons vs just a callsign and (2) the larger screen display. Another plus for the AvMap G5 is an active <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Avmap_G5_APRS\/?yguid=264694940\">Yahoo Group<\/a>. I am going to try to keep this GPS away from the washing machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My GPS of choice for the last two years has been the Garmin Nuvi 350. It interfaced nicely with the Kenwood TM-D710A using an Argent Data Systems cable. Everything was working great with the Nuvi up until I placed it in our washing machine. You are probably thinking that there is a better way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/23\/avmap-g5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AvMap G5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,37,233,238],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-aprs","tag-avmap-g5","tag-th-d7a","tag-tm-d710a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-H3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}