Radar / Plotters combined

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Further to my post of Yesterday on Behalf of a friend who is trying to get set up on this forum.

He is looking at the Garmin 3010c, what other moderate cost combined radar / plotter systems in the sub £3k bracket do you guys have views onand can you reccomend or advise to avoid.

I have said go for as large a screen as possible or to go for two seperate screens one for radar and one for plotter as when i had a 7 inch screen on split screen The pictures wer too small to be of any use.
 
Just a thought, but sometimes folk get too preoccupied with display size instead of the more important positioning of the displays and screen quality. A 5" display close to the helmspersons head is a lot easier to see that a 12" display that's three feet away!

PS: A large display that can't cope with sunlight or is dum is worse than an ultra bright small display that may actually be easier to see.
 
We have a Raymarine RL 70 CRC combined both at the chart table and at the helm. Excellent unit even in the brightest of light conditions.
 
We have a C120 with radar overlay it is indeed very good but you do also need a fast heading sensor for the radar overlay to make real sense. Unless you have it hooked up to a gyro autopilot which does the same job.
 
We have a Koden 10" display and a 4' open array.... Good quality display, twin speed antenna, dual range display, split screen (radar/plotter), or overlay etc... can connect sounder/video etc.... to the kit... Got some cracking stand alone radats as well...

Not usually found in leisure crafts, but as the dealer said .... "trust you to be happy and I'll se you in 10 - 15 years"....

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Koden too. With Garmin 3010 plotter next to it. Not to mention paper chart and some binos which have since been lost!

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Some other options
Lowrance HDS10, Raymarine C120 (or if you want dual station E120) Raymarine C90wide, Simrad NX45 (C-map)

Although having used the garmin touch screen version, you should give them a try, if you can stretch a bit more on the budget.
All these are on the navigate-us web site
 
FWIW I find radar overlay a total gimmick and hate it. I much prefer two big screens. One dedicated to radar, course up. T'other for the chart and data boxes, north up. Just my preference

You need the fast heading sensor for overlay and for Marpa. If you don't want either, you can delete the fast heading sensor from the budget

Raymarines new c series (wides) allow 2 (max) screens to be networked, whereas the old C is single screen only
 
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FWIW I find radar overlay a total gimmick and hate it. I much prefer two big screens. One dedicated to radar, course up. T'other for the chart and data boxes, north up. .....

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Echo that .... since the picture was taken, I've installed a 15" monitor to the laptop (in the picture) next to the Radar display, to avoid dual screen issues. (Do run dual range, twin screen on radar display every now and then though).... so that the combined instrument have single function, but can revert to chart plotter if PC fails... or give me information which I have reason to doubt ... hence two seperate GPS feeds.
 
Out of interest, what do you use for the GPS feeds, I have a defunct Garmin GPS31 I need to replace and I am looking for something that would supply a PC as well as plotter.
 
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