US Globalsat BU 353 Continued Issues

[James Wilson]

I spent all of last chase season without a working GPS and I need to figure this out. I have the US Globalsat BU 353 which assigns itself to COM15. I open grlvl3 and it shows ports 3,4,5,6,7 as the only ones I can connect to.

Here is what the device manager says the ports are doing:

Sprint connection Manager NMEA Port (COM4)
Sprint connection Manager NMEA Port (COM5)
Sprint connection Manager NMEA Port (COM6)
RIM Virtual Serial Port v2 (COM7)
RIM Virtual Serial Port v2 (COM8)
Profilic USB-to-Serial COMM Port (COM15)
It show COM3 in use and COM1, COM2 open

If I change the ports to one in grlvl3 it disapears in grlvl3 as a choice. What the hell is wrong? I'm using Vista ... is that the problem?

Any help would be very appreciated.

BTW, the puck works with Microsoft Streets and Trips 2009.

 

[JeffGonzales]

I spent all of last chase season without a working GPS and I need to figure this out. I have the US Globalsat BU 353 which assigns itself to COM15. I open grlvl3 and it shows ports 3,4,5,6,7 as the only ones I can connect to.

Here is what the device manager says the ports are doing:

Sprint connection Manager NMEA Port (COM4)
Sprint connection Manager NMEA Port (COM5)
Sprint connection Manager NMEA Port (COM6)
RIM Virtual Serial Port v2 (COM7)
RIM Virtual Serial Port v2 (COM8)
Profilic USB-to-Serial COMM Port (COM15)
It show COM3 in use and COM1, COM2 open

If I change the ports to one in grlvl3 it disapears in grlvl3 as a choice. What the hell is wrong? I'm using Vista ... is that the problem?

Any help would be very appreciated.

BTW, the puck works with Microsoft Streets and Trips 2009.

Vista is not the problem. The same thing happened to me when i had it at first. Do you have GPS gate as well?

 

[rdale]

If it's just a problem with GR3, you'd be better off posting a question in the GR3 owners' forum.

 

[JeffGonzales]

What i did when i had the problem, since i was using GPS gate i was able to asign it to a different COMM port that GRlevel3 uses.

If you right click on the GPSgate icon, click settings, then click output tab. On the drop down arrow select the COM Port and click add. After u click add a screen will pop up that says Serial port setting. Select the drop down arrow and then select COM port 1 or 2.

After u add that then you can open up GRlevel3 and select the COM port that u selected in GPSgate and it should work.

If you dont have GPSgate im not sure how t will work, but if you run Microsoft Streets and trips 2009 you will need GPSgate any ways to run different applications with one GPS unit.

 

[James Wilson]

Thanks Jeff, I'll see if that works.

 

[JeffGonzales]

sounds good let me know if it works out