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Ben Ellison
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RE: trianing

Hi Grady, NMEA offers a well-developed series of installer training programs, mostly in the U.S. but also sometimes in Canada, UK, and Europe: They a...

8 years ago
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RE: Garmin VHF AIS confusion

Hi Paul, I agree with all that Steve wrote, but there is a nuance of note. There are now two distinct Class B AIS technologies -- Carrier Sense (CS) a...

8 years ago
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RE: Chart cartridges for original Simrad Evo NSS 12

John, do have a link to what you might buy? I recall the original Simrad NSE12... ... and then it being replaced by the NSS Evo2 series, and most rec...

8 years ago
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RE: Garmin map transfer REALLY slow...

Geez, Randy, even 13.27 GB -- Garmin's number, I think -- is a BIG download. If I did that using my "unlimited" Verizon plan, it would use almost all ...

8 years ago
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RE: Firefly battery quality?

Hi Mic, I had lunch with Nigel last weekend and we talked Fireflies among other things. Here's what I know so far: * The original U.S. manufactured Fi...

8 years ago
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RE: Blank Slate

Hi Brig, After a lot of use, I'm still impressed with the original Quantum, especially given its cost and lightness. Ray has also significantly improv...

8 years ago
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RE: Shakespeare Webwhip

Hi Rich, I found the manual at Shakespeare's WebWhip site and the setup is familiar from other WiFi bridges I've tried. Where are you having trouble? ...

8 years ago
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RE: Replacing or repairing my 4.25" Standard Horizon DS45 Depth Sounder

I don't know the details yet but apparently the Actisense DST2 easily solved the problem on Peter's boat. Cool!

8 years ago
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RE: Replacing or repairing my 4.25" Standard Horizon DS45 Depth Sounder

The word from Actisense was: "The DST-200 should work fine with this – most transducers have a fair bit of leeway anyway on their centre frequency." I...

8 years ago
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RE: Replacing or repairing my 4.25" Standard Horizon DS45 Depth Sounder

The DST2 manual says "Depth sounding frequency tolerance around the designed frequency is -2 +2 kHz," which seems very close. Plus I don't think that ...

8 years ago
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RE: Replacing or repairing my 4.25" Standard Horizon DS45 Depth Sounder

Incidentally, Raymarine seems to have discontinued the Depth Pod that Rod appeared to be using back in 2010. They do have the ITC-5 converter than can...

8 years ago
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RE: Replacing or repairing my 4.25" Standard Horizon DS45 Depth Sounder

Bless Standard Horizon for keeping all their old manuals online (and don't know how Google missed it). Actisense is distributed in the U.S. by Gemeco ...

8 years ago
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RE: Replacing or repairing my 4.25" Standard Horizon DS45 Depth Sounder

Hi Peter, I can't find a manual for the DS45 online. Do you have a link, by chance? And what does the transducer look like -- fixed or in a casing tha...

8 years ago
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RE: Best radar for squall detection

Hi Bruce, Garmin let me replace the 24xHD radar I long tested on Gizmo with the Fantom 24 back in late 2016, and I subsequently wrote this review: Th...

8 years ago
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RE: Bug

Hmm...back on PC and can't say that phone interface to this Forum is great, but my reply from Pixel 2 XL with Android 8.1.0 did work.

8 years ago
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