Larry, that's NMEA 2000, except it uses CAN bus rather than Ethernet.

It's starting to show up in some GPSs, but I haven't seen any DSC VHFs with it. Yet.


"Larry" wrote in message ...
Hope this helped you a little better....All this crap needs a good
Ethernet jack on it plugged into a router you can get at any Circuit City
for $60. Then, the radio would KNOW who the GPS, Chartplotter, Autopilot
and other gadgets was from their BROADCASTS and the router could easily
route like a little LAN as it should....not this wrappin wires together
crap we're buying now. How awful......

Larry W4CSC
Chief Engineer S/V "Lionheart" - WDB6254
Charleston Harbor
"Don't call me 'Captain'! I'm not to blame!"