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- mac4cat - October 9, 2009
Hi, somebody now if its possible to connect a Radar direct to a Mac? Or to translate the Ehternetprotocol from the Radar to a Monitordisplay.
I'am searching a solution for the new Broadband Radar technology.
Sometime whe have to achieve the impossible, so we get the best.
Oliver
- ReeferJon - October 11, 2009
I looked at doing this a while ago with the Koden ethernet radars. It would be relatively straightforward to do..
Never got around to it in the end.
- georgelewisray - October 11, 2009
Would love to find out more about this. The new navico broadband radar seems to be a great thing, however, I am not excited about getting sucked into a Navico brand (Lowrance/Simrad/etc) multi function display. It would be far nicer to interface the unit with an existing PC based chart plotter. The only manufacturer that I know for sure has made their communication protocols known for interfacing by a SW developer is KODEN and the software developer is Rose Point. The owner of Rose Point is an ex-microsoft guy and his product for for windows. I have been running it with Parallels-XP on my macbook with no problems. (w/o radar module)
There are some other SW packages that interface with some radomes but it is unclear who is making the radomes and what the HW & SW protocols are.
More info would be great!!
- mac4cat - October 11, 2009
The new Broadband Radar is very Promisingly and i have no intrest to buy a display from simrad/Navico or Furuno just for the Radar. MacENC is fantastic. So i search for a solution to implement a broadband Radar Display on a Mac. Tips are welcome. Tahnk you
- adjuvantjfoster - December 10, 2009
You might look at the article on the Panbo Blog:
http://www.panbo.com/archives/2009/12/free_range_radar_navico_broadband_and_expedition.html#more
- mrfugu - December 15, 2009
Dear GPSNavX/MacENC folks,
Have you contacted Navico about possibly adding this functionality?
It really would be amazing..
thanks!
- GPSNavX - December 15, 2009
It would be, but if you read the comments on the Panbo site you will see its no where near ready for prime time. I am sure in time as the technology is properly refined it will find its way into MacENC.