Boca_Vincent
Active Member
This is great. Thank you. Also, reminded me that I need to look at the GPS antenna and see what it is and how its wired.
Garmin 5212 Replacement/Upgrade
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There are NMEA GPS antennas that your Garmins and your VHF will happily use. I use one because I like having a single source of truth for positional info. Bonus points in that a NMEA GPS antenna on your arch will have much better reception than that which is built into your devices
Boca_Vincent
Active Member
I know there is an antenna on the arch , just not sure what model. I am guessing it is same era as the 5212 so no idea if this will match up with the new MFD. Looking at the 1023's manual I see there is a compass safe distance listed of 25", which is in conflict with my compass location at the helm, so I am figuring that the remote antenna is pretty important.
As for your single source theory, I was thinking differently in going with the SH GX2400 in that I had a redundant source as a failsafe.
Skybolt
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- Nov 11, 2014
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- Boat Info
- Reel Nauti
460 EC
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Alison Gears
Westerbeke
12.5kw Genset
That is probably a Garmin GPS 17 NMEA0183. You should take a look at the Garmin GPS 24XD. It also has a heading sensor in it along with being NMEA 2000.
Boca_Vincent
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Just ordered. Thank you.
