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Aquabotix HydroView
By Ben Ellison | Posted March 2013 | Add a CommentPMY Tested: The remote-controlled underwater camera vehicle you control with your iPad.
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Wilson Marine SOHO 60 Cellular Booster
By Ben Ellison | Posted March 2013 | Add a CommentPMY Tested: The SOHO 60 Cellular Booster from Wilson Electronics.
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Garmin BlueChart Mobile
By Ben Ellison | Posted March 2013 | Add a CommentThere was significant news regarding Garmin’s BlueChart Mobile app (BCM). In fact, anyone with a relatively current iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone—that is, one that’s running iOS 6 or better—can download the basic and free BlueChart app right now.
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Maretron DSM150
By Ben Ellison | Posted March 2013 | Add a CommentOver the years Maretron has developed an amazing array of NMEA 2000 sensors and other utility hardware, many of which aren’t available elsewhere and all of which can be displayed, alarmed, configured, and managed with a DSM150.
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Aboard a Boat Electronics Guru's Test Lab
By Ben Ellison | Posted March 2013 | Add a CommentCruising more than 1,000 miles with an absurd amount of electronics on a great boat—The Author’s Gizmo—Power & Motoryacht’s returning electronics guy takes product testing to a new level.
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Broadband Radar
By Ben Ellison | Posted February 2009 | Add a CommentIt’s long past time that the magnetron was consigned to the dust bin of maritime history,” enthused Larry Brandt, a commenter on my electronics blog who is both a professional mariner and a radar tech with experience working on everything from 60-ton 1960’s Air Force sky scanners to the super-compact, super-high-performance solid-state sets
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Lowrance HDS Series
By Ben Ellison | Posted February 2009 | Add a CommentWhen Lowrance announced its all-new HDS Series in October, there seemed to be several valid rationales for the letters, which stand for “High Definition System.” All the plotter/fishfinder models have high detail but formerly black-box Broadband Sounder digital technology built in. They also have more detailed Lowrance lake and ocean cartography built-in or
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Si-Tex T-900 Series
By Ben Ellison | Posted February 2009 | Add a CommentNot all boaters, not even techy ones, enthusiastically embrace multifunction navigation electronics, let alone new-fangled solid-state radar. The conservative bullet points are, one, that several stand-alone devices will never leave a skipper completely functionless and two, that traditional magnetron-based marine radar is still being
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FLIR M-Series
By Ben Ellison | Posted February 2009 | Add a CommentFLIR’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 they way they’ve been promoted, through demo cruises, technical seminars, and the creation of a devoted dealer network, have been impressive. But while all this was going on, FLIR was also
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Maretron SIM & RIM
By Ben Ellison | Posted February 2009 | Add a CommentMaretron’s new Switch and Run Indicator modules—the $375 SIM100 and the $299 RIM100—are at the expanding frontier of NMEA 2000. Each plain black box can convert a variety of system sensor inputs into N2K messages available to any device on a boat’s backbone. A SIM, for instance, can monitor up to six D.C. switches, such as sensors for high water, CO2, LP, and
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