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Side-Scanning Sonar By Tim Bartlett \| Posted January 2011 The Latest, But Is It The Greatest?Side-scan sonar can find structure, but can it find fish?Teamwork in action: Using side-scan, down-scan, and regular sonar to help pinpoint a... Read Article	Navico’s whispering sonar By Tim Bartlett \| Posted December 2010 Why shout when you can whisper?How Navico’s new breed of whispering sonar promises clearer pictures at greater depths.Three years ago, Navico introduced something that it... Read Article
Sept 2010 Electronics Column By Tim Bartlett \| Posted September 2010 Finding Your PlaceAn upgrade for GPS and a real-world test for AISThe first of the line: a Block 2F satellite being prepared for launch at Boeing.The first of a new generation of... Read Article	Inmarsat phone By Tim Bartlett \| Posted August 2010 Inmarsat, the granddaddy of satellite communication services, has launched a truly portable satellite phone. The company says that the new phone is "targeted primarily at... Read Article
My Anchor Watch By Tim Bartlett \| Posted August 2010 Anchor Watch. There are more than 150,000 apps for the iPhone, ranging from the puerile and pointless (such as iBeer, that turns your $300 phone into a virtual beer glass) to the... Read Article	Wireless On The Water? By Tim Bartlett \| Posted August 2010 Wireless On The Water?We have wireless networks in our homes and offices. Why not on our boats, too?I can’t remember the last time I used a phone that had a wire attaching its... Read Article
What’s a Navico? By Tim Bartlett \| Posted July 2010 What’s a Navico?Deconstructing and defining an emerging marine electronics giant.When I was first introduced to Simrad’s new NSE displays last fall, I just had to ask a company... Read Article	A Sense of Direction By Tim Bartlett \| Posted June 2010 The strange and tortuous search for a way to improve GPS reliability.Last December CrossRate Technology introduced its first (and so far only) product: a combined GPS and Loran... Read Article
Lowrance Elite By Tim Bartlett \| Posted June 2010 “Elite,” according to my dictionary, means “the most powerful, rich, gifted or educated members of a community,” which makes it rather an odd choice of name for a range of five-... Read Article	Smoke Alarms for Your Boat By Catherine Pearson \| Posted May 2010 A 75-footer heading from Naples, Florida, to the Bahamas stopped for what promised to be a relaxing night in Miami. The seven guests onboard—five college-age passengers, the... Read Article
Controlling Power By Tim Bartlett \| Posted May 2010 Twenty-first-century technology has changed the way your electronics communicate.It’s more than ten years now, since we learned to spell “millennium,” stocked up on canned food,... Read Article	A Sirius/XM Development By Capt. Bill Pike \| Posted May 2010 A Sirius/XM DevelopmentFinally—dependable, detailed, real-time weather info onboard.Sirius/XM services offer weather station and buoy reports (left), animated frontal boundaries (... Read Article
Garmin 6000 and 7000 MFDs By Tim Bartlett \| Posted April 2010 There are new models at the top of the Garmin series, as well, in the form of two new ranges of large-format multifunction displays known as the GPSMAP 6000 and GPSMAP 7000 series... Read Article	Garmin 700 series By Tim Bartlett \| Posted April 2010 A recent addition to Garmin’s range is a series of touchscreen plotters whose size and price slot them neatly into the significant gap between five-inch GPSMap 600 series, whose... Read Article
Stay Safe WITH AIS By Tim Bartlett \| Posted April 2010 Why a collision-avoidance system is must-have technology.Vesper Marine’s AIS Watchmate RX displays data from its built-in receiver on a simple, radar-like display or as a... Read Article	Ultrascan PC90 By Tim Bartlett \| Posted March 2010 One of the drawbacks of forward-looking sonar has always been that sound travels much more slowly through water than radar waves travel through air. At a sluggish 5,000 feet per... Read Article
Jotron AIS SART By Tim Bartlett \| Posted March 2010 Jotron's Automatic Identification System (AIS) SART is a search-and-rescue beacon based on AIS technology; it transmits a dedicated identity code and GPS position to produce a... Read Article	Follow the Birds By Tim Bartlett \| Posted March 2010 What's the secret to piscatorial success? Simple. Just follow the birds!Terns and pelicans don't go fishing for fun. They do it because of their need to survive. And because they... Read Article
Game Changer? By Capt. Bill Pike Marty Mason \| Posted January 2010 Twin Disc challenges pod drives with a smooth, quick joystick system for shaft-drive boats.Most likely, it was the eyebrow that got me. I was winding up a pleasant dinner with a... Read Article	Sea-Me Dual Band By Tim Bartlett \| Posted January 2010 Sea-Me, the popular RTE (Radar Target Enhancer) or “active radar reflector” has been dramatically improved. The new Sea-Me Dual Band does exactly what its name... Read Article
ACR EMERGENCY BEACONS By Tim Bartlett \| Posted January 2010 ACR Electronics has introduced what it describes as the newest generation of Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) in the shape of the AquaLink PLB. Although less than six inches long... Read Article	When To Go Manual By Tim Bartlett \| Posted January 2010 Most of the time fishfinders work great on auto mode. But not always.Fishfinders don’t just find fish; they also find the places fish are likely to be, like reefs, wrecks, and... Read Article
Make A Call, Save Some Cash By Tim Bartlett \| Posted January 2010 Onboard satcom is now cheaper than cellphone service. Did you know that it is now cheaper to phone home from the Bahamas or the Virgin Islands through a shipboard satellite... Read Article	Night Eyes By Capt. Grant Rafter \| Posted January 2010 Eat all the carrots you want. Your eyes still can’t match the power of thermal imaging.Need proof of how well FLIR’s infrared technology works? Compare the views of the same... Read Article
Avoiding Disaster By Tim Bartlett \| Posted January 2010 True Motion displays like this one have come down from the big-ship world. For collision avoidance, switch to the unit’s relative-motion mode.One foggy May morning, a few years... Read Article	DeLorme Handheld Charting By \| Posted November 2009 DeLorme launched its first handheld unit less than two years ago, but has already followed up with two more.The most recent is the midrange Earthmate PN-30.Like last year's range-... Read Article

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