3/17/2021 0 Comments Plgr Serial Interface
Its just another option is the PLGR DAGR route becomes too complicated.For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.Mike Murphy was selling them on his website for about a year - not even an EUC requirement.
They list regularly on Ebay (very regularly.maybe even now at decent prices, though conditions and revisions are all over the map. Basically with a shift from Red Key to Black Key architecture for the crypto loads.nobodys going to be doing anything with them remotely harmful to national security anyway.which is probably why the alphabet agencies have unofficially backed off in terms of calling up Ebay and Craigslist vendors. On Blue Force Tracker - a number of functioning MT2011 antennatransceiver units were sold on Ebay, and a collection of demilled ones (connectors punched in - one was intact) were recently on G503. Austin regularly has the power supply cables, transceiver cables and switching boxes for them in addition to the different styles of mounts (HT rear sponson; HT or other variants front windshield.) Just about all of the various interface cables for FBCB2-BFT and FBCB2-EPLRS were listed at Austins Ebay store - but its a matter of going through the installation guides etc. Everyone thinks the FBCB2 computer setup is the same as Blue Force Tracker, but it isnt, really. In early days they just had the BFT version of FBCB2 using the MT2011 satellite transceiver for data connectivity, but later they also had the EPLRS version which used the UHF EPLRS transceiver in place of the BFTs MT2011 sat transceiver. Austin had cables for both setups.just about all of them, as I recall. Im sure there were other variations, but those are the ones I know of. ![]() Plgr Serial Interface Manuals Readily AvailableYou can configure the serial port output of both PLGR and DAGR to output only the needed NMEA sentences used by external map-on-the-move programs like Google Earth etc., which is covered in manuals readily available online, and I think in the Google Earth documentation as respects whats needed. Sometimes PLGR returns the wrong date for some reason when used in conjunction with Google Earth, but Ive never bothered to determine why as the rest of it works perfectly. You can experiment with what the various NMEA sentences do when hooked up to the mapping programs and work it out for yourself in the absence of any documentation. Not to hijack the thread here, but if anyones got a CPU for FBCB2 (doesnt have to be JV5), I could use it - as Ive pretty much got the rest of it. One of my favourites listed DEMIL classifications for this and that and had ANPSN-10 (just an old-school, Trimble Pathfinder in a green case which cant even take a crypto load) as CCI DEMIL D.roughly the same time Government Liquidation listed (and sold) a large quantity of black PLGR II which DID have pre-SAASM cryptoload capabilities, and were purchased specially for use with laser rangefinders. Ultimately I think common sense prevailed because theres nothing you can really do with a 2 lb 15 yr old GPS, though youre not going to be buying DAGR at GovLiquidation anytime soon. I think of it now along the lines of the same thing as those of us driving military vehicles around that still say US PROPERTY on the data plate. Sure, you can get pulled over by a well-meaning yet over-eager LEO pointing at that US PROPERTY and assuming you stole it.but its a bit unlikely.and theres no overall profit or security enhancement gained by doing it. Now the fun part.trying to figure out how to get a PLGR to talk to it.and show that map. For fun I have some screensaves of a BFT on slideshow.lol.Also picked up a LED flex light from GOAL ZERO at Costco. Basically theres a cable that goes from the serial port of the PLGR (DAGR same) to the serial port on your Toughbook. They show up on Ebay from time-to-time but you can make one if youre handy with that sort of stuff - wiring diagram in the back of the PLGR manual, I believe, andor maybe on Brookes site at prc68.com. Unfortunately its not very plug-and-play, though I think both Google Earth and Microsoft Streets and Trips will scan for the serial port youve got the PLGR connected to more or less automatically (assuming the data rate is the same - 4800-N-1 I think is the default - and the PLGR is outputting NMEA 0183 information as per the -10 manual.) Wish I had my stuff in front of me to get rid of all the I thinks but most is in storage at the moment. We used a satellite imagery program on the laptop and got really time movement on the laptop.
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