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Hope someone here would be kind enough to help me out with a simple setup. I'm very new to this and have a few questions. I don't see much info here on the new 3DR Telemetry Kit.

All I want to do is feed GPS data wirelessly from a model rocket to a ground station laptop running Google Earth.

I have the 3DR telemetry kit and the Mediatek 3329 GPS.

1. Will Google Earth plot the feed? - 3D Robotics told me the GPS shipped with a custom firmware that uses binary protocol. Does anyone know if GE will handle binary protocol or do I need to reflash the firmware to output NMEA?

2. Can I use APM planner to read the GPS string? - or do I need to have the ArduPilot board to do this?

Thank you,

Elvis