"luc" wrote in news:1141256143.930521.307560
@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

I am sorry I bought my Ray Marine instruments that are not NMEA
compatible, if that's the word.

Ah, let the hacking begin!
http://www.thomasknauf.de/seatalk.htm

There are many companies making Seatalk to NMEA converters, which are quite
pricey, of course. Just put:
Sealtalk to NMEA converter
into the Google search engine to smoke them out.

Conversion between Seatalk and NMEA on Lionheart takes place in the RL70CRC
radar/chartplotter display, which statements are controllable in the
display menus. Our main GPS is the Raymarine Seatalk Raystar 120:
http://www.raymarine.com/raymarine/P...ection=2&page=
80&product_id=144
The NMEA multiplexer feeds from the RL70CRC's NMEA output to the rest of
the boat's network.

Looking at the website, I notice they have whole new designed radomes to
replace our crappy 2D domes that rain inside and rot the potmetal guts.
Hope the new one is sealed up.