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Bill Kearney Bill Kearney is offline
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Default Maretron WSO100 - NMEA 2000® Ultrasonic Wind / Weather Station

I have not tried this product, but have instead used the AirMar
equivalent. It contains wind, barometric pressure, compass, and GPS.
All NMEA 0183 output. Anything that displays NMEA works for it, we use
a Furuno RD-30 display to go with it. Also, we use a Shipmodul
Miniplex-42BT so we can pick the data up on a computer.


Anything that DISPLAYS the data might work, but what about getting it set
up? A lot of NMEA2k gear requires their own brand display to get their
sensors configured (lowrance for example). I spoke with some Maretron folks
at the Annapolis boat show and they're aware of this hassle. They indicated
their intention to use their USB-NMEA2k bridge to handle a lot of this sort
of stuff. That'd be good but I have no idea if they've made progress on
that intention. I'll say this however, the Maretron folks were the most
savvy and forthcoming of the bunch. Other vendors (at least their booth
personnel) were considerably less informed or outright dismissive at the
idea of using other devices in conjuction with their sensors.

That said, I too would like to know more about getting the Maretron stuff
setup with other gear.

-Bill Kearney