Motorola TRBO marine suggestions

[advant]

Is there a trbo radio one would suggest for marine/boat use? I know some other brands can transmit and integrate with garmin to plot GPS coordinates as well

 

[Astro Spectra]

Unless I am mistaken none of the Motorola mobiles that have GPS built-in output the necessary NMEA format GPS messages needed to integrate with marine equipment. GPS sensors are so cheap today that this shouldn't be an issue.

 

[oldfart]

To my best knowledge, this is/has already been done with a number GPS enabled Motorola radio types. The NMEA data is not really required, but is calculable from the Motorola data.
The fun part is - integrating it with other nautical services.
Please feel free to PM me.

 

[advant]

Does it really even matter if the radio has GPS, since it could pull the information from the Garmin unit itself? I've got a Garmin 541 currently. For instance my friends boat, when he radios another guy with a similar setup, his location shows up on the other guys GPS. I guess this is DSC feature of the radio making it possible?

oldfart,
What kind of ideas you got?

 

[oldfart]

IMO - it's no good just pulling the data from a 3rd Party GPS - if you don't have some way to feed that position into your radio and then transmitting it to the "other" radio.

Maybe I'm missing something here - as I believe that the GPS is integrated into /V\ radio purely for that purpose.

cheers
OF

 

[advant]

Ah, gotcha. Well getting one with GPS isn't an issue. But how can you interface it with the gps unit, assuming that is being transmitted to you?

 

[oldfart]

Would your application be for "open water" or "inland waterways" ?
In either case the receiving side would be a base station radio and for the application - most probably a laptop (depending on the size of your craft or if you're using a landlocked base).
cheers
OF