diff --git a/com.buglabs.util.nmea/com/buglabs/nmea2/AbstractNMEASentence.java b/com.buglabs.util.nmea/com/buglabs/nmea2/AbstractNMEASentence.java
index 8b3e320..799e0e3 100644
--- a/com.buglabs.util.nmea/com/buglabs/nmea2/AbstractNMEASentence.java
+++ b/com.buglabs.util.nmea/com/buglabs/nmea2/AbstractNMEASentence.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ protected void initialize() {
 	}
 
 	private String parseChecksum(String sentence) {
-		String[] splitSentence = sentence.split(CHECKSUM_SEPARATOR);
+		String[] splitSentence = sentence.split("\\" + CHECKSUM_SEPARATOR);
 
 		if (splitSentence.length > 1) {
 			checksum = splitSentence[1];