I want to buy a puck to link to my Win 10 laptop running openCpn. What are your recommendations please?

I'm using one of these:
www.ebay.com.au/itm/BU-353-S4-SiRF-Star-IV-USB-GPS-Receiver-FOR-LAPTOP-CAR-PC/221057093602?epid=1689660596&hash=item3378078fe2:g:ohUAAOSwxH1UBbq9&frcectupt=true

Works fine :)

Just buy the exact one that Lazz listed above. There are some cheaper versions of the SiRF-4 puck about that don't work as well. This is one area where it pays to pay the extra.

Great thanks! ordered that one this morning.

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I have also bought this one - the puck itself is working fine but I cannot get it to work with Expedition on my laptop, which I why I purchased it.
Any ideas what could be missing?


Lazzz said..
I'm using one of these:
www.ebay.com.au/itm/BU-353-S4-SiRF-Star-IV-USB-GPS-Receiver-FOR-LAPTOP-CAR-PC/221057093602?epid=1689660596&hash=item3378078fe2:g:ohUAAOSwxH1UBbq9&frcectupt=true

Works fine :)

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Nilly said..

I have also bought this one - the puck itself is working fine but I cannot get it to work with Expedition on my laptop, which I why I purchased it.
Any ideas what could be missing?

I'm not familiar with Expedition but it will be in the Settings / Options somewhere. Probably have to tell it which COM port.

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Lazzz said..

Nilly said..

I have also bought this one - the puck itself is working fine but I cannot get it to work with Expedition on my laptop, which I why I purchased it.
Any ideas what could be missing?

I'm not familiar with Expedition but it will be in the Settings / Options somewhere. Probably have to tell it which COM port.

Thanks, yes I believe I have done that but I'll keep trying

My puck arrived yesterday. I installed the drivers and puck last night, but had some issues with opencpn crashing with it. I discovered that the default driver settings were incorrect (9600 baud), once I changed that to 4800 in Device manager, opencpn detected the new settings and settled down ok.

I don't know expedition either, but these are the steps I would take; install puck drivers, plug in the puck, open up Device Manager (assuming windows here?), the puck will be listed under com ports and will have been assigned a com port number, right click on it for device properties, set the baud rate to 4800 (windows calls it something else in this dialogue box, but it'll be obvious, fire up expedition, search in your settings for "connections" or whatever expedition calls it and apply the com port (number) as your connection. In opencpn, the connections manager found the correct baud rate that I'd set in device manager, but you may have to manually adjust that.