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Simrad Broadband 3G By Tim Bartlett \| Posted July 2011 Simrad engineers have increased the peak transmitter power of the Broadband 3G from 100 milliwatts to 165 milliwatts... Read Article	Gyrocompasses By Tim Bartlett \| Posted July 2011 If a gyro starts spinning with its axle pointing toward a star that is rising over the eastern horizon, it will try to tilt upwards as the star rises. Read Article
GPS Compasses By Tim Bartlett \| Posted July 2011 When Columbus set off across the Atlantic, he took along a magnetic compass, but he didn’t entirely trust it. His attitude was understandable: Most seafarers of his time... Read Article	Navionics App for iPad & iPhone By Capt. Bill Pike \| Posted June 2011 Navionics App for iPad... Read Article
The Reason for Different GPS Positiions for the Same Location By Capt. Bill Pike \| Posted June 2011 You Gotta Be Kiddin’Can your chart (or Google Earth) give you one position and your GPS another?Some while ago I received a letter from William P. Carter, an observant... Read Article	GPS Interference By Tim Bartlett \| Posted June 2011 Photos Courtesy of BoeingTechnicians at Boeing put the finishing touches on the LightSquared satellite, ready for its launch in November last year.Intentional InterferenceAs GPS... Read Article
Standard Horizon CPN MFDs By Tim Bartlett \| Posted May 2011 Standard Horizon CPN MFDsCPN1010i AND 700i PLOTTERSBlurring the tenuous line between navigation instruments and computers even further, Standard Horizon’s CPN1010i and 700i... Read Article	How to Keep Your Chart Data Up To Date By Tim Bartlett \| Posted February 2011 Top of the ChartsThere are numerous ways to keep your chart data up to date.Finding your way through shifting banks or a channel such as this one demands the very latest... 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	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	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	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
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	Upgrade or Download? By Tim Bartlett \| Posted October 2009 It’s always nice to buy presents for the one you love—even if it is difficult, sometimes, to persuade your wife that the boat needs a new plotter more than she needs that designer... Read Article
GPS Ailing and Failing? By Tim Bartlett \| Posted July 2009 Garmin Colorado 400C still better than a sextant even if the GPS is getting old ($599.99 MSRP; www.garmin.com)There is growing concern that GPS performance may soon start to... Read Article	The End of the GPS Monopoly? By Tim Bartlett \| Posted May 2009 Russian technicians fit a cluster of three Glonass satellites to a booster rocket.Sometime in the last few years of the 20th century, a new term was added to the everyday... Read Article
Automatic Autopilot By Capt. Bill Pike Paul Brou \| Posted May 2009 John Redmond of Redmond Marine Electronics in Destin, Florida, does some pre-assembly in Betty Jane’s saloon.Hand-steering my 1988 Grand Banks 32 Betty Jane for hundreds of miles... Read Article	Si-Tex T-900 Series By Ben Ellison \| Posted February 2009 Not all boaters, not even techy ones, enthusiastically embrace multifunction navigation electronics, let alone new-fangled solid-state radar. The conservative bullet points are,... Read Article
FLIR M-Series By Ben Ellison \| Posted February 2009 FLIR’s methodical two-year entry into the recreational marine world has been a thing to behold. Both its products, the popular entry-level Navigators and powerful Voyagers, and... Read Article	MySiMON By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2009 Photography by Palladium TechnologiesWhile Fusion's super safe iPod dock is reassuring (see main story), there are increasing reasons to risk carrying one around on deck. On top... Read Article
Furuno FA-50 By Ben Ellison \| Posted December 2008 Photo courtesy of FurunoFuruno's FA-50 is also an unusual Class B AIS transponder. While every other model mentioned in this column, including the two Simrads, is based on a... Read Article	iNavX By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2008 Courtesy of iNavXYou may have heard that Apple's new 3G iPhone includes a GPS but did you know that someone has already developed a good $50 marine navigation program for it?... Read Article
Planar LX Mariner By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2008 Ben EllisonPlanar LX MarinerThe global display company Planar has entered the little marine world with quite a splash. Its three new LX Mariner touchscreen PC monitors—eight-, 12... Read Article	ACR GlobalFix iPro By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2008 Courtesy of ACR ACR GlobalFix iProACR's new iPro GPS EPIRB earns its "next generation" marketing tag on three counts, the most obvious one being the reassuring and... Read Article

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