Re: simple NMEA display

Daniele Fua wrote:
Is there an easy way to build a display that will show some chosen NMEA data?
I have seen on the market programmable units that sell for several hundred $ and I know that a computer is easily interfaced but what I need is just a simple, cheap and weatherproof repeater at the helm to display only few of the zillion data available at the underdeck main navigation station. For example decoding just part of BWC and VTG and displaying, say, four lines would be enough (COG, heading, bearing to waypoint, and distance to waypoint).

Daniel
Any old pc/laptop wold show the stream with:

copy com1 con

assuming the stream it connected to com1 serial port with the
right baudrate.
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