Raymarine & Icom

[phatcat1]

Teccy Help Needed!!!

We have a Raymarine C80 plotter and I have decided to upgrade our VHF to am Icom M601.

Last weekend I spent 2 hours trying to get them to talk to each other. After much guessing at the connections between them (as neither product has "compatible" leads and plugs) i did get the Icom to recieve the lat-long info!

Great i thought, just need to make the connections permanent, then I can finish fitting the radio into the panel. Made the connections permanent, and would they talk to each other - NO THEY ??&&%$$£ WOULDN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What am I doing wrong??

Icom works perfectly, Raymarine works perfectly - just not together. They connected once, now refuse to talk!

Has anyone got any hints / tips / ideas?

 

[Koeketiene]

Raymarine: doesn't play well with others

 

[tross]

Is the raymarine droping back into Seatalk rather than NEMA ?

 

[[2574]]

I have done exactly what you are doing, the difference being that I purchased a Raymarina Seatalk to NMEA converter box. It was about £90. I know that Raymarine kit is supposed to deliver NMEA directly out of the back of the unit but I recall that it was only partially effective. I needed NMEA out both for the VHF and the Navtex repeater unit and with the coverter box I can report that it works faultlessly. I have heard other who have had problems taking NMEA directly from the Raymarine outputs. I also planned to take NMEA data from the network for interface to planning s/ware on a laptop - another reason for buying the converter.

More beer tokens needed I am afraid.

rob

 

[JerryHawkins]

If they talked once, you ust be on the right lines. Check that both are talking the same NMEA version at the same speed (BAUD rate). There should be settings for both on both devices. The C80 should also have settings for which NMEA sentences it will read or send. Check you haven't inadvertently told it to ignore the sentences you want it to send.

Jerry

 

[ShipsWoofy]

You would have been better buying a cheap h/h garmin, good back up device too.

£90 to get it to do something it promised, that is robbery!

 

[steverow]

Three possibilities come to mind:
1 That you may be on the seatalk bus rather than NMEA.
2. That the ICOM doesnt recognise the EC sentence header put out by the raymarine unit...but usually it's OK
3. That the baud rate is wrong...
Or perhaps you altered the wiring or pulled something in permanent install.
If you had it once then you should be able to replicate it again.

Steve.