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I've briefly tried to combine the use of
   1. Softserial (for getting data from GPS) at 9600 bps
   2. VirtualWire (for sending the data to a remote host) at 2000 bps
But it seems like I'm not getting anything on the Softserial-watching port as soon as I include the VirtualWire-library.
They are of course using different pins.

Is this a known interrupt-issue?
I have the debugging computer connected on the normal Serial line. (115000 bps, is this an issue?)
I am in urgent need of sending the data. Please advise a lady in despair  .

(Hardware: boarduino w atmega328, GPS, simple 434MHz ASK-transmitter)

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Is this a known interrupt-issue?

More like a missing code issue. As in your code is missing.

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Haha. Point taken.
I switched to NewSoftSerial and rewrote everything from scratch. It seemed that I spent to much time recalculating checksums every turn in the loop.
Now it works. I simply watch the NewSoftSerial-port and when I get a stop-byte, I now recalculate the checksum and then send off the packet.

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VirtualWire uses timer1 for its own purposes. May be that?

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Madeleine, could you please paste your code?? i've tried NewSoftSerial and I have the same problem... =S

Thanks in advance!