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OrSat AL-7103 MKII By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 OrSat AL-7103 MKIIAccording to Orbit Technology, this 1.15-meter (45-inch) Ku-band marine-stabilized antenna is the first of its size range to be type approved by Eutelsat and... Read Article	WxWorx XM Receiver By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 WxWorx hard- and software packages let you monitor XM Satellite Weather with your onboard PC, and its latest receiver makes installation easier than ever. Exchangeable modules... Read Article
Digital Antenna DA 2330 By \| Posted April 2008 Digital Antenna DA 2330Subscribing to XM weather via WxWorx entitles you to a great rate on XM's multichannel-audio goodness, but you'll have to run yet another antenna to your... Read Article	Garmin GMI 10 By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 Garmin GMI 10The 3.5-inch color screens on Garmin's new do-it-all instrument heads looked bright and sharp at the European trade show where I saw them previewed, and they should... Read Article
Managing the Waterway: Electronic Charts 2008 By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 Managing The Waterway: Electronic Charts 2008It may be an Intracoastal Waterway guide publisher, but the name Managing the Waterway doesn't do this company justice. Neither does... Read Article	Standard Horizon HX850S By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 Standard Horizon HX850SCredit due: Uniden built the first handheld combination GPS/ VHF, but the Mystic was quite bulky and expensive and is now out of production. Standard... Read Article
MatsyOnBoard SMART9522 By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2008 MatsyOnBoard SMART9522 MatysOnBoard is a little like Spot, as it uses a satphone system's SMS facilities—in this case, Iridium's—to send one-button-push distress... Read Article	GME Emergency Beacons By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2008 GME Emergency BeaconsThough GME has been manufacturing emergency beacons in Australia for more than 30 years, its EPIRBs and PLBs are new to America. The regular AccuSat 401 and... Read Article
Simrad GB40 By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2008 Simrad GB40Given the NX series and other new gear noted above, plus the big-yacht Glass Bridge GB60 system introduced last year, the networked, blackbox GB40 neatly fills the... Read Article	Simrad NX40/45 By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2008 Simrad NX40/45Simrad is refreshing almost its entire product lineup in 2008. The major themes are the extended use of SimNet (a.k.a. NMEA 2000) and the "Simradization" of... Read Article
Hello, Spot By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2008 Spot measures about 4 1⁄4" x 2 3⁄4".As an innovative satellite messenger, Spot is hot, but in terms of marketing, Spot should be shot. And, thankfully, those are all the easy Spot... Read Article	3D & G By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 The competition is fierce, and I'm not just talking about the grandiose debuts held simultaneously and almost chin-to-chin across a Fort Lauderdale boulevard the evening before... Read Article
Simrad AP 24 and AP 28 By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 Simrad AP 28Simrad's two new autopilot control heads, the AP 28 (above) and the smaller, knobless AP 24, may look like minor upgrades to the revered Simrad (Robertson) line, but... Read Article	Navionics Platinum+ By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 Navionics Platinum+As the ever-so-slight name change implies, "plus" is only an incremental change from the original multifaceted Platinum format, mainly offering improved... Read Article
Standard Horizon CPV555 By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 Standard Horizon CPV555Combine a top-the-line VHF radio with a competent chartplotter/fishfinder, and you get Standard Horizon's unusual and under-appreciated CPV series, which... Read Article	PulseTech Xtreme Charger By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 PulseTech Xtreme ChargerWhat with the lab and a fleet of small craft, I use and abuse a lot of 12-volt batteries. Wasn't I tickled with how well the $100 Xtreme "five-stage... Read Article
PAS-Thru Box By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 PAS-Thru BoxLife's hard; your friends are all enjoying NMEA 2000 install benefits with their new gear, and you're still struggling with an unruly mess of NMEA 0183 data... Read Article	Black Box Wideband Receivers By Ben Ellison \| Posted December 2007 The seven-inch Alden AE-3300 alongside the Icom R2500 with its second, non-PC control head.Wideband is not broadband. If you boat far from civilization, you'll still find even a... Read Article
KVH FleetBroadband By Ben Ellison \| Posted December 2007 KVH FleetBroadbandThe good news is that the advent of Inmarsat's FleetBroadband in November means that a yacht cruising almost anywhere from the U.S. West Coast eastward to... Read Article	Glomex Polaris By Ben Ellison \| Posted December 2007 Glomex PolarisSatellite TV and radio are great on a boat, since they're able to deliver clear and familiar channels most everywhere you cruise. But what about unfamiliar content?... Read Article
ClearPoint Weather By Ben Ellison \| Posted December 2007 ClearPoint WeatherClearPoint is an ambitious new weather service that attempts to go global with features similar to those that have made XM and Sirius Weather so popular under... Read Article	Maptech Touch Screen Navigator By Ben Ellison \| Posted December 2007 Maptech Touch Screen NavigatorNext month I'll profile the exciting new Raymarine G-Series and Furuno NavNet 3D systems, both of which are actually powerful PCs, though dedicated... Read Article
Nighttime Navigation By Catherine Pearson \| Posted November 2007 Craig Wallace DaleBright ChartsThe LightWedge Night Vision ($40) is one of those simple but decidedly useful products that makes you ask yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?"... Read Article	NMEA 2000 Marries Ethernet By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2007 As if we weren't confused enough! Maretron and Furuno have both introduced important new products that marry the NMEA 2000 marine-data protocol with the speed and universality of... Read Article
Tacktick Wireless Instruments By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2007 Tacktick Wireless Instruments Micronet Power Boat Wind TransmitterThe direction and speed of the wind are not only important pieces of information when maneuvering in close... Read Article	AmbientNAV Alpha By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2007 AmbientNAV AlphaWest Coast-based AmbientNav has introduced a new monitor line named Alpha, as in "alpha dog." This leader-of-the-pack boast is based on high-end specs like 170-... Read Article

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