Globalsat Globalsat BT-328 manual

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  • Page 1

    BT-328 User Manual page 1 of 10 BT-328 Bluetooth GPS Receiver User manual, version 1.0[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 2 of 10 1. Overview X Power button Y AC adapter jack Z Power status LED [ GPS st atus LED Bluetooth st atus LED Car charger AC adapter[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 3 of 10 2. System S pecification Model Name BT-328 Electrical Characteristics (Rec eiv er) Chipset SiRF GSC2 Frequency L1, 1575.42 MHz C/A Code 1.023 MHz chip rate Channels 12 Tracking Sensitivity -155 dBm Accuracy Position Horizontal 10m 2D RMS WAAS enabled 5m 2D RMS Time 1 micro-second synchronized to GPS time Velocity 0.1[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 4 of 10 3. Bluetooth S pecification Bluetooth V1.2 Compliant Supply Voltage 2.8V ~ 3.3V Frequency Range 2.042 ~2.480 GHz Receiver Sensitivity – 80 dBm Transmit Power Class 2 Transmitting Range 10 m Power Consumption 45 mA (Typical) 4. Features  New SiRF GSC2 high performance and low power consumption chipset  Communi[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 5 of 10 6. Getting S t arted  Turn the device on and off Power on: Press the power button for 1 second until the GPS status LED is on. Power off: Press the power button for 1 second until the GPS status LED is off.  AC Adapter jack The power jack allows you to connect either a DC car charger (included) or AC adapter (i[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 6 of 10 7. Usage 7.1 Connect BT-328 to your Bluetooth device (1) Press the power button to turn on the BT-328. (2) The Bluetooth device could be “a PDA with built-in Bluetooth”, “a PDA with Bluetooth Compact Flash card”, or “a No tebook with Bluetooth device”…etc. (3) Please refer to the user m anual of your Bl[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 7 of 10 4. Tap the “Devices” tab, and tap “New Par tnershi p…”. 5. It will search for all the Bluetooth devices. 6. Select a device (for example “BT-GPS-328EB2”) and tap Next. 7. Enter Passkey “0000” and tap Next. 8. Check “Serial Port” and tap Finish.[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 8 of 10 9. The device will be shown on the list. 10. Tap the “COM Ports” tab, and select “New Outgoing Port”. 11. Select the device and tap Next. 12. Uncheck “Secure Co nnection” and from the drop down box select a COM port number (for example, COM8), and then tap Finish.[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 9 of 10 13. The device with it’s COM port number will be shown on the list. 14. Now you can go to GPSinfo program, set the correct COM port and test the GPS receiver.[...]

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    BT-328 User Manual page 10 of 10 8. T est the BT -328 Bluetooth GPS Receiver Please install the GPS Information program. It is included in the CD, file name could be “GPSinfo.exe” or “GPS Information.exe”. This testing program only supports the Microsoft Windows CE & Pocket PC based PDA platform. Please refer to the GPSinfo User Manual [...]