Somebody is paying attention...

It appears Raymarine has scheduled a premiere of their G-Series product line right at the same time as Furuno's launch of NavNet 3D during the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show.

Now that DSC-ready radios are the standard and you likely have that red emergency button on the front of yours, do you know if anyone will be listening if you press it? The answer is maybe.

Some people think geeks are a product of the computer generation, but long before computers there were HAM radios. Enthusiasts of HAM radio, who sat in dark basements and talked to strangers 3,000 miles away about propagation and signal-to-noise ratios, were the original geeks. Since the proliferation of computers, however, HAM geeks and their marine cousins using Single Sideband have become a smaller and smaller subset of the geek kingdom.

I haven't been shy about expressing my opinion to anyone who would listen that Raymarine needs to introduce some new products, other than VHF radios.

RaymarineST70

I just saw their new ST70 instruments - now that's what I'm talking about!

With Furuno's big sales meeting over with, there are some features about the long anticipated NavNet 3 system (named NavNet 3D) coming to light.