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Al
As far as my GPS was concerned I used one of the original USB ports of the PC/lappy directly and reconfigged it as COM2 (it was originally connected to a USB port off a 4-port USB hub, no go!) and it worked from then on. Using a Synscan GPS and with it any one of the two apps on the CD provided with unit will communicate with the GPS unit and will work; you must then ensure that the apps comms port option is set to what your GPS is assigned with - in my case Com2 & 4800bps and then change the output format to NMEA so that the EQMOD can acquire the NMEA output formatted data - you do have to wait a while for the GPS apps to acquire several satellites etc and you know that it is working when you see the icons of the sats turn from red to green and the positional information starts to appear eg your long/lat/elev etc
After launching the planetarium software, EQMOD can then be used to acquire the GPS data by clicking on the "GPS" button in the setup extension Window and follow the instructions provided in hte EQMOD manual
HTH
Cheers
Bill
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