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Early Adopter
If you want the latest and greatest, you have to be smart about it.
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Know the Flow
Fuel management is getting more available, more sophisticated—and more important.
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How's Your "Q"?
Airmar manufactures the majority of depth- and fishfinder transducers in use.
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Time Zero, Live
On the water with Furuno NavNet 3D and one of its core architects.
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Pocket Navigation
It's amazing what they're squeezing into gadgets these days. Makes you wonder where it's all headed.
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iNavX
iNavX is the work of the same development team that built the well-regarded GPSNavX and MacENC charting programs, and it shows.
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Planar LX Mariner
The global display company Planar has entered the little marine world with quite a splash.
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ACR GlobalFix iPro
ACR's new iPro GPS EPIRB earns its "next generation" marketing tag on three counts.
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Cellranger STIX
The seductive claim is that its microprocessor technology can analyze an arriving cell signal
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Raymarine A-Series
Raymarine has radically redesigned its A-Series of small plotters and plotter/fishfinders.
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Cobra MR F300 BT
The short-range Bluetooth wireless standard is now usefully making its way onto boats.
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Standard BH-2
Standard Horizon’s BH-2 works with either the company’s new HX760S handheld or as an add-on to certain of its Quantum fixed VHF radios.
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Callpod Dragon v2
When does an everyday Bluetooth cellphone headset become a desirable boating accessory? When a pair of them can also provide a captain and mate hands-free intercom capabilities up to 300 feet apart.
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FloScan FloNet
Hats off to FloScan for developing FloNet, one of the most NMEA 2000-friendly products tested.
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Yanmar Smart Check
Smart Check provides a complete virtual gauge set, monitoring some 40 engine, gear, and control functions.
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Shine Micro RadarPlus AIS-BX
You can now purchase Shine Micro's AIS-BX Class B transponder for $799 and use it as a high-performance, true dual-channel AIS receiver.
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Bushnell ONIX 400
Bushnell's Onix 400 mapping GPS is designed primarily for hikers, but can deliver both XM Satellite Weather and Radio in a form portable enough to also go on the water.
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Digital Yacht SPL250
Digital Yacht is expanding to the United States in a timely manner, given its emphasis on Class B AIS.
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Simrad AI50
Simrad's AI50 is the most feature-packed Class B transponder available.
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Furuno FA-50
Furuno's FA-50 is also an unusual Class B AIS transponder.
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Icom MXA-5000
Is Icom a Johnny come lately for introducing the MXA-5000 AIS receiver just as Class B transceivers finally hit the market? I don't think so.
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