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For reference, early Garmins sent and received NMEA 183 data, including their own proprietary sentences:

https://developer.garmin.com/downloads/legacy/uploads/2015/0...



The GPS 95 supported NMEA 0180, 0182, and 0183 up to version 1.5 originally. The GPS 95 XL revision increased the support up to NMEA 0183 version 2.0. With four proprietary extensions, of course. The specimen in the blog post was software updated to the GPS 95 XL firmware at some point.

The NMEA organization published version 4.30 of the 0183 standard in December 2023. I dumped the firmware of the (software upgraded) GPS 95, it might be a cool project to replace the proprietary extensions with standard sentences from later revisions.

As for NMEA 2000, it's a completely different beast: a binary protocol sent in frames over a CAN bus. But as evidenced by NMEA continuing to update the 0183 standard, some industry is still using it.




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