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Yes, I would be interested. Bill Coleman C&C 39 animated_favicon1 From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 3:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Stus-List Standard Horizon GX2150 VHF/AIS + GPS Hi, I am enjoying a conference in Rome this week, and I want to add to the AIS chat before I get back and the discussion becomes too stale. For some time I have been eyeballing the GX2150 VHF/AIS with the hope that Standard Horizon would come out with an update which included a built in GPS(I even call SH and asked about it, but there are no indications of SH doing so). Standard Horizon is having a Fall rebate of $50 on the GX2150, and I found a great price of $299 for a GX2150 at GPScity.com. At total cost of $250, I could not pass this up and so I purchased a unit. It arrived two days before my flight out to Italy, and rather than preparing my conference talk, I was wiring and test the GX2150 ( hey, my talk is not until Wednesday). To provide the NMEA GPS I was planning on running a line from my gps enabled sounder, but then I looked into connecting one of those GPS pucks to the vhf instead. I ordered a $30 GlobalSat BR-355 PS/2 GPS(which arrived a day before the GX2150), cut off the PS/2 connector, wired the unit to provide 5V using a simple 5V regulator chip, and connected grounds and vhf NMEA input to the GPS NMEA output. Instant success. If anyone is interested, I can provide more details and photos when I get back. See the workbench photo showing the GPS info screen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2yqv14140eh0kl7/Photo%20Sep%2024%2C%208%2047%2049% 20PM.jpg Very happy with the GX2150, I just ordered a RAM3 remote mic which has a matrix dot screen so I will have AIS info and a VHF in the cockpit. I have also been in communications with the folks at SailTimer (I have one of their wind vanes) and vYachts to get a bios compatible wireless NMEA multiplexer(~$130). This way, I will be able to use iNavX and display both wind and AIS information in the same app. Digital Yacht makes a unit which will work (WLN 10) but it costs over 2.5 times the vYacht unit. All in all, it is a nice do it yourself project at a very reasonable cost. -- Paul Eugenio S/V Johanna Rose Carrabelle, FL
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