Boat Forum / Electronics / September 2005

I am looking to set up a laptop on a boat that will receive wifi
signals. I need to install a twenty foot cable from the antenna to a
Proxim orinoco 8011b/g gold wireless card. I have found the cable but
don't know what antenna to attach to it as I want to minimize loss of

Kees Verruijt Wrote:

Larry thank you and the others that replied
to my query regarding, radar settings.
I apologies for the delay in responding but
been away sailing. When back on the boat

Making cable for connecting my GPS to Icom M-601 radio. Icom manual
shows pins for data in and out, external speaker etc.   Unlike with
computer connectors, pins seem not be numbered, so there is some
confusion.  I am unsure whether the picture in the manual is of the

autopilot Wrote:

This is the final report of the problem:
GpsMap 276C Enroute Goto Problem
I am a Garmin user  since 1992 and I had more than 10 Garmin gps units;
currently I have in my own boat 3 Gamin's  gps (GpsMap130, GpsMap 76

I'm going to be doing the Great Loop (south through the Great Lakes to
the Mississippi, down the Tenn-Tom, around Florida and up the ICW to
Canada, then back to Lake Superior) starting next August and returning a
year later. My kids will be learning online and we will need some ...

I'm looking for detailed information on Furuno's NavNet protocol. Any help
will be greatly appreciated !
DF

I was recently shown a copy of an article from one of the sailing
magazines (either Blue Water Sailing or Ocean Navigator) in which they
extolled the virtues of quarter wave antennae for marine ssb radios.
The article made two points: 1. No copper ground was needed and 2. the

Hi Meindert
The multiplexer is 42 BT
The ps is secondary navigation for AIS and night time use / back up,
want to be able to click on the yeoman and load a track and it appea

Help please
I have a Ray marine set-up C120, Auto pilot SG3 etc, I have just bough
a shipmodul NMEA multiplexer and a Yeoman at the boat show, I starte
reading all the manuals and have gone into info’ overload.

Does anyone here have experience with ComNav autopilots?  More
specifically, I am looking for experience with ComNav steering sailboats.
Any information, good or bad would be appreciated...
thanks

Traditionally, in a sailboat  we navigate using pre planed routes, but
depending on the weather conditions and other factors,  we can skip one
or more waypoints in the route sequence, doing a GOTO to the next
waypoint  within the active route; this works well practically in all

Hi  I am looking to purchase new instruments for my sailboat and wonder
if anyone has used the navman 3100 series. Any comments on these or
other manufacturers would be appreciated.  
  Thanks Dave

I have a three year old Bombardier Utopia 185.  It is powered by a Mercury
200 hp jet drive.  I would like to use this for fishing, but you absolutely
cannot take your hands off the wheel, particularly at low speeds.  Steering
is accomplished by a push pull cable arangement which ...