24-10-2019, 01:15 PM
Be warned : If you are contemplating buying a "VK-162 GPS mouse" via eBay then read the following :
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You might be interested in a problem I have encountered, when I tried to buy a ‘backup’ VK-162.
The first ‘VK-162’ I bought on eBay works well – I repeated the order but what arrived was marked differently – instead of just ‘G-Mouse’ it is marked ‘G-Mouse’ then on the next line ‘BD&GPS’. I can’t get any PC to even recognise this second VK-162 as a USB device.
I bought a 3rd one and it’s the same as the 2nd one – neither of them work! I think the BD refers to the Chinese Beidou No.1 satellite, so maybe these BD&GPS ones are not U-blox 7 inside, but some Chinese clone? I can’t find any driver software for them at all, so they are probably duds....
73 Chris GM3WOJ
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It could be that it just needs to be set into NMEA mode to fix it, but without Windows drivers that makes that hard to achieve !!
I recently (3 weeks ago) bought another one myself via eBay and mine does NOT have the extra lettering and - more importantly - it works.
Mine came from 'duomin_87' under a listing " VK-162 Notebook Usb GPS Navigation Module Support", supplied from within Australia.
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You might be interested in a problem I have encountered, when I tried to buy a ‘backup’ VK-162.
The first ‘VK-162’ I bought on eBay works well – I repeated the order but what arrived was marked differently – instead of just ‘G-Mouse’ it is marked ‘G-Mouse’ then on the next line ‘BD&GPS’. I can’t get any PC to even recognise this second VK-162 as a USB device.
I bought a 3rd one and it’s the same as the 2nd one – neither of them work! I think the BD refers to the Chinese Beidou No.1 satellite, so maybe these BD&GPS ones are not U-blox 7 inside, but some Chinese clone? I can’t find any driver software for them at all, so they are probably duds....
73 Chris GM3WOJ
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It could be that it just needs to be set into NMEA mode to fix it, but without Windows drivers that makes that hard to achieve !!
I recently (3 weeks ago) bought another one myself via eBay and mine does NOT have the extra lettering and - more importantly - it works.
Mine came from 'duomin_87' under a listing " VK-162 Notebook Usb GPS Navigation Module Support", supplied from within Australia.
Doug VK4ADC @ QG62LG51
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If you have a comment or question, post it as it may trigger or answer the query in someone else's mind.