Electronics Buyers Source Book
Author:
Allan Tarvid Exciting new electronics offer real benefits to skippers, whether they fish inshore from skiffs or prowl the oceans in world-class sport-fishing yachts. Size and performance have become less closely related in new units. A fisherman in a skiff equipped with electronics sized appropriately for its console can enjoy performance and features that are the practical equivalent of those provided by larger units designed for bigger offshore boats.
Laptop Battery Hand-held GPS receivers smaller than the remote control for most television sets now deliver fast first fixes and offer superior, 12-channel, dynamic performance. Compact, new Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) radars provide vastly improved screen visibility and safer, more comprehensive navigation to smaller open boats.
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Thinkpad New color LCDs on some fish finders and sounder/GPS combos glow brightly in direct sunlight, bringing the advantages of color out in the open instead of fading to gray as did older models. Autopilot heads are becoming more compact and user-friendly as remote-control capability becomes more widespread.
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Microsoft Full-featured radios now take up less space, but don't suffer from down-sized performance. If hand-held VHFs get any smaller, we'll have trouble keeping track of them.
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The unrelenting march toward the "crystal cockpit" continues as interfacing communication between various electronics systems becomes more commonplace. Still greater interface advances promise to boost inter-unit digital conversations in 1999. Raytheon, for example, recently unveiled high-speed bus (HSB) technology that provides instantaneous two-way, point-to-point communication between a Pathfinder radar and chart plotter. Once connected via the single-cable HSB link, either unit can display radar and/or chart-plotter information with instantaneous updating. A skipper gets all the benefits of two full-featured units at two stations without having to install a second display at each location. Fishermen have never had it so good!
