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Garmin Cables from LOCATIS in Portugal

£25 for a Cable with Software - worth £40 !

or £10 for just a cable

This Page Updated 1000 Wednesday 23rd August 2000

Robin Hi ! I set up this page in January '99, to tell people about products available from LOCATIS, the Ramos Family Business in Portugal. Jose Ramos is an old friend and GPSS contact of mine, who pioneered use of GPSS in Portugal, including the testing of mapping, translation of the speech to Portuguese, and getting some publicity in magazines. Jose had already supplied many of his Garmin Cables by mail order, from as little as 10 GBP (15$US). In January 1999 I agreed that they could also supply the cables with a copy of GPSS. Since then, I have only had good reports from Happy Customers. Please continue to keep me informed of your experience in buying LOCATIS products. We hope, very soon, to arrange for LOCATIS to supply the new GPSS CDROMs, described on the CDROM Page instead of floppy disks. The product information below will then be updated. Please check with LOCATIS for latest status on products available, prices, etc.
Robin
Robin Lovelock, Sunninghill Systems. August 2000.
To e-mail Robin Lovelock, Sunninghill Systems click on gpss@compuserve.com
The GPSS Web Site is on http://www.gpss.co.uk

What Do You Get for £25 ?

What You Get The picture on the right shows what you should receive from LOCATIS, should you decide to order the "Pack1" (Data Cable and GPS Software) from them at 25 GBP.

NOTE: LOCATIS WILL PROVIDE YOU INSTRUCTIONS TO USE THE CONTROL-R FORM AND PROVIDE HIM WITH THE DETAILS OF YOUR COMPUTER WHICH WILL BE USED WITH THE GPS. THEY WILL THEN GIVE YOU A MATCHING KEY CODE. THIS KEY CODE WILL ONLY WORK ON THAT SAME COMPUTER. SEE BELOW.


DC9 Data Cable The DC9 cable is suitable to connect most Garmin GPS receivers to the 9 pin COM1 port of a Laptop PC, or 9 pin serial port on your desktop PC. This includes the Garmin GPS12, 12XL, 38, 40, 45, 48, II, II+, and III. This then enables you to use the GPS with software such as GPSS, available off the web site. Mapping for 111 countries, and speech for voice guidance in 11 languages, is available free off the same web site.

Options

Combined Data & Power

Optionally, the pack can be supplied with a DPC01 data/power cable (for models 12XL, 45, 48, II, II+, and III) for an additional 10 GBP. The data/power combined cable allows the GPS to be powered from the car lighter socket while the data connection is used. See picture of the data/power combined cable on the left. NOTE THAT THE DPC01 IS NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL GARMIN GPS RECEIVERS. e.g. the G12 will not accept unregulated 12v, whereas the G12XL will. Likewise the GPS38 requires a special power adaptor.

You may want to suppress Snoopy after 12 months. For an additional 5 GBP, Jose will provide 'lifetime registration' of that same version of GPSS, with a code that will suppress Snoopy until 2099. For more information about Snoopy, see 'Software' below.

The options available from LOCATIS are:

Software


Snoopy

PC and GPS You could download the same software off www.gpss.co.uk, but it would be UNREGISTERED. This means it would still be fully functional, but a Snoopy character would appear every 5 minutes, saying "hello", and reminding you that the software was not registered. Jose provides the registration key to suppress Snoopy until a later date. By that time you will probably want to buy a later version than that, but if you want a 'lifetime licence' for that version of GPSS, you can do so, at an additional 5 GBP, to extend 'Snoopy Supression' until 2099 - long enough for most people :-)

How Do I Contact LOCATIS ?

You may contact LOCATIS by e-mail, to discuss other options available, and how to arrange payment. To e-mail LOCATIS click on locatis@mail.telepac.pt

To place your order, e-mail LOCATIS, and specify your pack type (e.g. GPSSPACK1) and your postal address. Your pack will normally be shipped by airmail the next day.

Their postal address is:
M. Ramos, Locatis Lda., Casa da Lagoa, Avessada 2665-402 Sto. Estevao das Gales, PORTUGAL.

Registration with LOCATIS

To give you the correct key code, LOCATIS needs you to do the following: