[MLB-WIRELESS] [OT] transcom VTX units

[Steven Haigh]

I would be most interested if you made a wiki page for this with  
photos etc and pinouts...

Quoting Red_Wolf_2 <glp71s at gmail.com>:
> I took the two modules off the transcom board and used them both
> separately, in the case of the GPRS module, i put in a vodafone sim
> and poked wires in the little on-board socket, which i then ran
> through a MAX232 to a pc... worked just like a modem, and I even got
> it to receive SMS messages :D
> The gps module is much the same, it also runs at TTL voltages (means a
> MAX232 for it too). I wired it up as a standard gps unit with some
> parts from an old laptop to desktop hard drive converter.
>
> I never experimented with the GPRS functions of the modem, due to the
> cost of trying to get it to work (cost of data through GPRS), if
> anyone would like to try it out, I'm happy to tell you what pins need
> to be connected to what to get data in and out of the device...
>
> I guess it would be possible to interface both modules to a different
> microcontroller, such as one of the PIC or ARM line, but I don't know
> enough about programming those to do it. Any takers out there? :P
> It would be nice to make a little unit that could receive an SMS, and
> respond to it with its current GPS location, or maybe (for the more
> adventurous) establish a GPRS session and upload trip data to a server
> somewhere...
>
> On 6/26/07, Rowan 2006 <rowan2006 at sensation.net.au> wrote:
>> Did anyone ever do anything useful with these units? Mine is still sitting
>> in pieces, awaiting a SIM card and some way to program it!
>>
>> Cheers.
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