I want to know if someone has used the Basic Stamp 2, in particular
the BS2-IC to send and receive SMS messages via a GSM phone/module?

I also want to know if this has been used to receive and interpret GPS
information in NMEA format?

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Request for Question Clarification by markoft-ga on 30 Jun 2002 16:47 PDT

I would just like to chime in with the links:
http://home.mira.net/~gnb/gps/nmea.html
Glenn Baddeley - GPS - NMEA sentence information

http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter/
Peter Bennett's GPS and NMEA Site

I just happen to be looking into something similar as I have aquired a
couple GPS OEM modules and will be using them as APRS units and would
really like to output the infomation to an LCD screen on the dash of
my car.  NMEA should be easily decoded with the basic stamp as you
will just need to read in the comma delimited sentances and reformat
the information for output.

I'll let someone else lookup the information on SMS messenging.

As per GPS data being collected by a BS2, there is an oldish (1996!!!)
posting in the LOSA (list of stamp application).

You can find it at:
http://www.hth.com/filelibrary/txtfiles/losa.txt

The entry is:
=====================================================================
 Title : Near Space Capsule                                  [# 053]
=====================================================================
 Date  : 961122
 Author: Lloyd Verhage
 E-mail: verhage@humec.ksu.edu
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 Stamp model   : BS2-IC Module
 Code available: YES
 Filename      : asimovv2.bs2
 URL           : N/A
---------------------------------------------------------------------
    Description   :

     Kansas NSP used a BS2 to control a near space capsule.  The
capsule
     is a styrofoam box with amateur radio gear to provide telemetry.
The
     BS2 operated the radio, collected physical data, operated
cameras,
     and collected data from a GPS receiver. Data was telemetered to 
     ground stations via packet radio.  Maximum  altitude reached was
     90,200 feet.

     Information and code will be given by author upon request.

Another posting of marginal interest to your search is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/basicstamps/message/21848
where a person is commenting use of the BS2SX (NOT BS2IC!!) with a
GSM.

Hope this helps!
Frox