"maxlynn" wrote in message
newst5Fb.31627$pY.9325@fed1read04...

I wouldn't think you are a Luddite, but you should think long and hard
about
not feeding the GPS' NMEA output to the radar. At the very least, it
serves as a repeater for much of that data. And, as someone else noted,
it
provides the lollipop display of the location of your next waypoint on the
radar screen. This is very useful information.

Exactly! And this is also exactly what will not work between Furuno radar
and Raymarine chartplotter. The Furuno cannot read properly the heading NMEA
sentence put out by the Raymarine and so the Furuno cannot work out properly
where to point the lollipop.