"Capt John" wrote in message
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You need to decide what you want first. Do you want combination units?
Or do you want dedicated single function units, and do you have the
room for them? With your combination units you get more in less space.
But when you have a failure, and you have to return the unit, you loose
all those functions the unit performs. With dedicated, single function,
units you do get better performance, but they take up a lot more space
and they cost more. But if your fish finder fails that's the only
function you have to do without until it comes back. Your best fish
finders and radar's come from Furuno, for GPS equipment it's Northstar
and for radios it's ICOM (their top of the line units). Furuno makes
some very nice combination units, they've been building these units as
individual components for some time now, so their probably a safe bet
when it comes to a combination unit. Northstar has been building
LORAN's and GPS's for a long time, and their great units, but their new
to radar and fish finders. ICOM, I'd stick to their radios only for
now.

Just my two cents.
John


Thanks for the input. I sort of have my eyes on the NavNet 1823C which is a
combo unit. I think I'd prefer one large screen to 2 or 3 smaller ones.

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Peter Aitken