An Inexpensive Replacement GPS Receiver. ?

[oldgit]

£35.00 on Ebay.

 

[TernVI]

You can get the innards of that, using a ublox chipset for undera tenner on ebay, so you're paying £25 for case and some cable.
Which may be good value if the case is what you want.

Personally I'd go for a case style which doesn't snag ropes so much.

 

[oldgit]

Just seemed a cheap alternative to the other stuff on Ebay at around £90 and bargain compared to the genuine Raymarine unit ?

 

[Rappey]

Everything is cheaper without boat tax added on.. Raymarine want £280 for a plastic box with a £15 potentiometer inside, billed as a rudder position sensor..
I used a car gps ariel (£5.99 on ebay) and it made a huge improvement over the internal one built in on a old garmin chart plotter

 

[agurney]

What's a "GPSR . ECEIVER"? If they can't get that bit right I'd stay well clear.

As noted above, it probably only has a ~£5 GPS module inside .. and by fitting one of those inside an AWB you wouldn't even have to waterproof it.

 

[RichardS]

What's a "GPSR . ECEIVER"? If they can't get that bit right I'd stay well clear.

As noted above, it probably only has a ~£5 GPS module inside .. and by fitting one of those inside an AWB you wouldn't even have to waterproof it.

Indeed. I installed my last GPS receiver inside a locker and it works better than the old Raymarine one mounted on the deck. With modern circuitry, an external mounting is redundant.

Richard

 

[TernVI]

If you want the best performance from a GPS, that means having outdoors.
Whether indoor performance is 'good enough' is like proving a negative.
You'll never know whether one day your GPS working a little bit better outdoors might be critical.

 

[RichardS]

If you want the best performance from a GPS, that means having outdoors.
Whether indoor performance is 'good enough' is like proving a negative.
You'll never know whether one day your GPS working a little bit better outdoors might be critical.

I believe it to be simpler than that for many of us. If the performance of your new indoor antenna is better than the performance of your old outdoor antenna, then the new antenna will always be better than the old antenna whatever the conditions. Whether your new antenna might work slightly better if it were mounted externally is not so relevant as, either way, performance is better than it was and you were happy enough before, presumably.

Richard

 

[prv]

What's a "GPSR . ECEIVER"? If they can't get that bit right I'd stay well clear.

The people posting the eBay ad are unlikely to be the same ones designing the case and will not be the ones who designed the GPS module. In any case, there’s not a very strong correlation between their engineering skills and their foreign language skills.

Pete

 

[oldgit]

When my Raystar 125 failed about 10 years ago purchased a clone from Ebay at around £90.00.
After about 18 months it started giving me problems. More in hope than anticipation contacted the vendors.
Whats the problem they asked ? Its taking ages to pick up satellites.
Fine, chuck it away, we will send you new one.
New unit arrived following day.

 

[[70521]]

If you want the best performance from a GPS, that means having outdoors.
Whether indoor performance is 'good enough' is like proving a negative.
You'll never know whether one day your GPS working a little bit better outdoors might be critical.

Why? If I am within 5 NM of where I am offshore I am OK, if I am within sight of land that goes down to 0.5NM, if I am picking up a mooring or coming along side I am not looking at the GPS but eyeballing it.