Geonav 4 CXS.

[kindredspirit]

Anyone at the moment using one of these?

Do you find it good? It got a good review in Yachting Monthly recently and I'm looking for a hand-held plotter for sea and land use.

Or......any other recommendations?


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[pvb]

Other recommendation...

The Geonav 4CXS is just a 4C with an output socket for SVGA export to another screen (so, for example, you can view charts at 800x600 resolution on a laptop). If you don't need to do this, the ordinary Geonav 4C will do. However, the Raymarine RC400 appears to be essentially the same plotter in a slightly different case. The Geonav 4C is about £420; the Raymarine RC400 is about £280. Know which one I'd buy!

 

[kindredspirit]

Re: Other recommendation...

My goodness! There’s a dearth of answers to my query!

There can’t be that many people with hand-held GPS plotters then. I would have thought that most people had them.

With only one recommendation, from pvb, the Raymarine RC 400, I suppose that’ll be the one I’ll buy.

 

[andis]

Re: Other recommendation...

The simple Geonav 4c in indeed the same unit as the raymarine, but the 4cxs is not; it can project its screen image onto any computer monitor (even 20in).
This allows for a big chartplotter at a very low price, given that computer monitors these days are dirt cheap. However, this only works if you have a wheelhouse from where to operate the system, as cheap computer screens are not particularly water resistant /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[StriderOzone]

Re: Other recommendation...

I was looking at these two units as well, the geonav advertises being able to use land maps as well The navionics land and sea cartograophy, to work as an in car gps as well. Does anyone know if the Raymarine does this as well, or is that wht its price has just dropped from 499 to 299 because its due to be repalced witha Raymarine that duplictes what the Geonav does already?

 

[andis]

Re: Other recommendation...

last i checked the raymarine did not have the land gps capability nor the speaker connectivity for voice guidance

 

[kindredspirit]

Re: Other recommendation...

Looks like its back to my original choice, the Geonav.

I was wondering why the difference in price. You never get something for nothing.