radar and laptop

[Guest]

Hello all

I have a laptop on board and i was wondering if i can have a radar display on it. By that i mean, can i buy a radar without the display, and send the info direct to my laptop. Thanks in advance

tom

 

[HaraldS]

Try Nobeltec http:// [url]http://www.nobeltec.com/ [/url]

Have no personal experience with it.
Also Raymarine offer PC access to their Radar range, though not sure you can buy it without the display.

http:// [url]www.taniwani.de [/url]

 

[stuartw]

In principal you could use the video information, however you would loose all the functionality of the radar screen itself. By which I mean all the controls like, cursor, range, zoom, power, standby, etc etc. These are normally on the suround of the display itself, which also contains most of the processing electronics. You could in theory have a duplicate screen, but that's all it would be - for remote observation only.
Sorry.
rgds
Stuart

 

[ean_p]

just remote observation sounds good to me Stuart...any ideas on how to make it happen in reality......(mines a Furuno!!!)

 

[ean_p]

Hi Harald
both of your links fail ....is it my end or yours????

 

[HaraldS]

Sorry,

fails on me too. Seems it automatically substitutes the http:// so I'll try here again without:

http://www.taniwani.de

 

[HaraldS]

I don't think you can get this to work without some extra hardware. I had a short look into this, just for fun and thought it was too much work to bother. I looked with the scope what my Simrad is doing, and yes there is a video signal, but what would be a horizontal line on the TV is one stroke from the center out. In short you get timing signals for forward heading and then for each pulse when it is transmitted, from then on you need to time to get the distance of a possible return pulse. Seems you need a fast A/D converter and then a lot of programming.

The Nobletec scanner seems to do the A/D conversion in the scanner unit, and they connect via RS422 to the interface card which translates to USB.

MaxSea, with their superyacht package also seem to offer interfacing hardware and claim that they can tie you into most radars.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.taniwani.de>http://www.taniwani.de</A>

 

[ean_p]

Hello again Harald
thanks for the response.....excellent website and always good to put a face to a name.......sounds like the radar/pc monitor interface is a non starter though......it'll happen soon.....at realist cost.

ian p.

 

[gerardversluis]

Re: radar and laptop & Wintendo

I would never trust navigation electronics that uses Wintendo '95, 98 or XP running on a hard spinning disk. Oke, good as as a toy but not as "hardcore" navigation equipment.