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NAV6 plus NAVTEX System User Guide
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Q. I am experiencing various problems interfacing my NAV6 to
Raymarine (or Raytheon as it used to be) equipment.
A. Certain Raymarine (previously Raytheon) equipment offers the facility
to bridge instrument data transmitted on SeaTalk to an NMEA output.
Unfortunately this bridging facility is not comprehensive in all cases, for
instance a RC520 will display wind information if it is available on the
SeaTalk interface, but does not bridge the wind data to its NMEA output
interface.
We recommend that you carefully read the user manual for any
Raymarine products that you own before connecting an NMEA output to
the NAV6's NMEA input. You may find that the data that you wish to
display on the NAV6 is not output by the Raymarine equipment (as in
the example above).
In these cases we recommend that you purchase a Raymarine Seatalk
to NMEA bridge product and use this to bridge Seatalk instrument data
to the NAV6's NMEA input.
Q. I am experiencing problems with my Raymarine E85001
Seatalk/NMEA/RS232C Interface Box
A. NAV6plus customers attempting to interface to Raymarine SeaTalk
systems using a Raymarine E85001
SeaTalk to NMEA Interface Box
may experience problems with the data contained within the RMB
(recommended minimum navigation) sentence. Please ensure that you
have the latest software from Raymarine in your E85001. E85001
Versions 6 and earlier (any E85001
unit purchased before May 2002) do
not transmit the RMB sentence correctly which may result in one or
more of the following symptoms on the NAV6plus:
1. no cross track error (XTE).
2. incorrect closing speed.
3. incorrect
range.
4. incorrect bearing.
Please contact your Raymarine dealer to obtain an update for your
E85001.
Please note that the SeaTalk bridge does not convert all SeaTalk data
elements to the NMEA equivalent. Please consult the user manual from
your SeaTalk bridge which will indicate which data items you will be able
to view on your NAV6
plus .