Boat Forum / Electronics / May 2006

Hello out there,
Just wanted to know how the service is from you national Garmin distrubutors
in your countries? In Denmark it's really bad and i'd like to know if it's
worthwhile escalating it to garmin or it's "the whole system" that seems to

When i send the sentense GPRMB to the autopilot it works OK to navigate
a route. However GPRMB doesent give the autopilot the dynamic heading
to the waypoint. This can be done by the GPAPB sentense, and as i've
observed it makes a good autopilot totaly amazing when given the

I am getting a humming sound in my boat TV, new installation, maybe
someone has solved this before.
I have a standard Sony 19" LCD TV, and a automobile 12 VDC DVD player.
They are connected to each other via a cable with 3 RCA jacks (left,

I recently bought a sailboat with a Raymarine SL72 Radar/Chartplotter.
It's supposed to have a GPS as well.  When the boat was surveyed on
land, of course, the GPS showed our position.  The minute we launched
the boat, the GPS couldn't find our ship.

SeaClear PC Chart plotter and GPS Navigation software.
Would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience with SeaClear, pro and
con.
Thanks.

I need to purchase 4 white speaker grills for my boat 6 1/2 "  I can't find
them ANYWHERE, any suggestions?

My boat had reading/spot lights with regular incandescent bulbs. They were
junk and used a lot of power.
Costco has some outdoor led spots. They have 4 leds in each one.Package of
4 lights, solar panel and rechargeable batteries for $50.

Autohelm 5000 Boat going in circles; Hunter 40
Hi there I thought I should ask this group; members with an Autohelm 5000
that have experienced their boat going in circles while endevoring to make
the autopilot work and what they did to get it to do what it i ssuposed to

Has anyone who's done a neat job of wiring behind their control panel got
any tips for success?
I've added a bus bar in a waterproof container behind the passenger side of
the dashboard of my bow rider but haven't figured out how to keep the wiring

I've started a group to discuss the SR261 AIS transceiver:
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/SR261/?yguid=60411443
Jez Hillyard

I'd like to make my own cable to connect my fishfinder HUMMINBIRD
Matrix 15 to PC Serial Port (rs232).
I've found the cable ready-made but it's too expensive. I thinks the
price is very high for 2 plastic connectors (Serial 9 Pin for PC RS232

I have a small sail boat (26') used for coastal cruising. It
would probably never be beyond 25 miles from the shore
line (maximum) and normally no more than 1 to 3 miles.
At present...  it has a 1/2 wave Shakespeare mounted about

Wondering if my old Sailor RT2048 should be replaced by VHF with DSC
capabilities. AIS output as NMEA sentences from the VHF would be quite nice
option so I wouldn't need to install new antenna, buy AIS receiver etc to
get AIS info in excellent SeaClear charting program. Is there ...

Who knows a simple software to edit nautical charts. I have mad a scan
of my chart.

hi all..
iam stuck in a gruesome situation..have placed orders for some heavy
duty wood working machinery from US.Most of these involve 3ph,220v,60hz
motors but i need to operate them at 220v,3ph,50hz supply.