Boat Forum / Electronics / January 2004

Aboard Lionheart, I recently decided it was crazy to have the Dell
Latitude running The Cap'n bolted to the serial cable at the chart
table.  I want to take it up in the cockpit during my watch in the
night so I can operate the Cap'n without leaving my helm/watch duties.

Bought one of these on ebay - but have no manual.
Is there anybody out there who can help with a  copy or a link to where I
may find one?
Thanks,

Hey y'all, Happy New Year!!
I recently bought a $135 Guest brand 10A (2x5) battery charger.  The
raterfratzer generates so much RF that it blanks my child bride's Icom 706
Mk2G on all bands even tho it's on a different power supply! It even

Know anywhere I can find ratings to help decide which antenna??  I have a 23
foot center console.  Generally range 10-15 miles offshore and plan to mount
the antenna on my

I just got down to my boat on the Rio Dulce in Guatemala and found
that
my SEA-235 SSB tuner isn't tuning.  The tuner should automatically
tune

I am going to change boat and I have uninstalled my old TS 430S SSB
that still works fine and I have to reinstall on the new boat.
Discussion on SSB are very frequent, here around, but I have not been
able to find out someone talking of the hard job to clean RFI out of

Problem is that I upgraded my Cmap for larger area and now it will not work
on my GPS Humminbird NP25.
It works on a friends Navman 5500i strangely and is ok when checked by the
supplier.

I am looking at installing an onboard computer onto our boat to use to run
chart plotting software as well as regular old computer stuff while we float
around.  I am looking for a wall mount capable PC, durable for the marine
environment that is MS Windows based.  There are a couple ...

I inherited a Yaesu FRG-7 receiver from my father. I have never used it. As
I get spun up for a "new" life as a live-aboarder I am contemplating the
stuff I will need and have been looking at the FRG-7. Is it a
reasonable/useful item to have aboard?

I currently have a Garmin 225 (DGPS) interfaced to a Furuno 1621 Radar
and Standard Horizon VHF.  It is about time to replace the Garmin
while it still has commercial value.
Question is....  what would you suggest as a replacement?

Anybody have any experience with these little devices?
I'm speaking of the iPAQ series PDA/handheld computers and the Navman
GPS receiver with the Maptech charts.
Any information/advice would be appreciated.

maybe i'll just do the ham thing.

Does anyone know how I can download the map on my  memory chip to save
it to my laptop, so I can load another map. Then when I'm finished with
the second map i can replace it with the one that I downloaded.