Becky
New member
In praise of SB\'ers, and Tome in particular
It has often amazed me how much experience and more importantly, knowledge, there is among the particpants of this forum- well all of them really. Any subject that is broached, and query for help, even the pictures of unusual places posted on the forum always elicit a knowing response.
Now I had been trying to find a professional who could connect my Navman 5600 to our new Icom 601. I have had two or three shake their heads sagely, while tutting and frowning, and then telling me that these two pieces of equipment must actually talk different languages, despite the instruction books telling me different., because they couldn't get a GPS position on the DSC radio.
Fanfare of trumpets!!!
Then along comes Tome, who not only understands NMEA, but talks it himself. In a few minutes he had the problem solved, wrong connections on the radio input plug, and all was working fine.
A bit cheeky I admit, but it was amazing to see on Tome's computer the NMEA sentences all coming down the connection from the GPS, and then watching him read the same instruction book all the others hadn't understood, and setting all to rights.
So, I would like to publicly thank Tome, who I am convinced is a genius, and all the other Forumites who have helped me and my boat over the last two years or so.
It has often amazed me how much experience and more importantly, knowledge, there is among the particpants of this forum- well all of them really. Any subject that is broached, and query for help, even the pictures of unusual places posted on the forum always elicit a knowing response.
Now I had been trying to find a professional who could connect my Navman 5600 to our new Icom 601. I have had two or three shake their heads sagely, while tutting and frowning, and then telling me that these two pieces of equipment must actually talk different languages, despite the instruction books telling me different., because they couldn't get a GPS position on the DSC radio.
Fanfare of trumpets!!!
Then along comes Tome, who not only understands NMEA, but talks it himself. In a few minutes he had the problem solved, wrong connections on the radio input plug, and all was working fine.
A bit cheeky I admit, but it was amazing to see on Tome's computer the NMEA sentences all coming down the connection from the GPS, and then watching him read the same instruction book all the others hadn't understood, and setting all to rights.
So, I would like to publicly thank Tome, who I am convinced is a genius, and all the other Forumites who have helped me and my boat over the last two years or so.
