navstar 2000s ??

[contessaman]

Can anyone shed any light on some navstar receivers I have please..

I have a 2000D which I know is decca and hence not a lot of use any more.

I also have a 2000S -the GPS version.

The former is working but useless, the latter has been ruined by a leaking internal battery. It would appear that the receiver part of the device is seperate from the (damaged) display circuit board and I may be able to swap them over and make a good one from the two.

I have no literature for either unit and navstar no longer exist. B&G also sold them rebadged as did plastimo but they have nothing.

Does any one out there have any documentation on these units that they could scan and email me? even a 2000D owners manual would be a start. If theres any marine electronics experts out there who may have a deeper knowledge or even a workshop manual I would be very grateful.

before anyone says it -I am fully aware that from the outset this is more bother than its worth but I enjoy playing around with such things. I have a perfectly good modern GPS on board. I do hawever really like the style and simpliciy of these units so am willing to spend a reasonable amount of time and cost in getting one to work.

has anyone out there managed to somehow convert an old decca one to GPS using a modern receiver?

 

[earlybird]

Might be wrong, but I seem to remember that the 2000S used the precursor to the present day GPS system which used very few satellites which passed every few hours. Long defunct AFAIK.
Can't remember the system name, but if so, your instrument won't be any use.

 

[Bajansailor]

The Navstar 2000S was a sat-nav, not a GPS - the GPS's were only just coming on the market in the late 80's, and were horrendously expensive.
I seem to remember being told that the GPS units then were costing $10,000+..... (or that might even have been GBP rather than $.)

I bought a Navstar 2000S at the 1988 Southampton Boat Show for GBP 500 + 75 in Vat, and that seemed to be 'good value' at the time.
We thought it was absolutely amazing - it was so wonderful to be able to get a position from it every few hours (if it was in a good mood......), rather than messing around with DR and RDF fixes......
(No Decca out here then!)

And now you can buy a Garmin 72 or an Etrex for a tiny fraction of the cost of that Navstar 22 years ago.

 

[BruceDanforth]

I think I remember selling the 2000s at the Birmingham Boatshow and as others have said I don't think it was a GPS. I suspect these 2 boxes are both pretty much skip fodder I'm afraid.

 

[philip_stevens]

Can't remember the system name,

Transit??