John,

Thanks for the picture. Nice looking boat, BTW. Looks like a pretty basic
standoff pipe mount just forward of the helm. Looks like something I can
do. Gotta think about it some.

Butch
"JohnH" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:05:18 GMT, "Butch Davis"
wrote:

Wow!! Thanks for the incredibly numerous helpful replies. Chuck, your
Montauk console is very similar to my Dauntless console. My current GPS
has
an external antenna mounted to the steel tube running across the top of
the
windshield. If I use an internal antenna it would be abour 11 inches
lower
than the external and about four inches aft of it.

Based upon my preconcieved notions and the responses here I'll almost
certainly go with the internal antenna.

I'm looking forward to a WAAS unit with a color display and Navionics
charts. Wish a larger display was in the budget.

So far it looks like Tiger GPS has a competitive price at $671 delivered.
I
spent more than that for my LMS-160 in 1999.

Thanks again.

Butch


Butch, you can go to alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean and look for the
post titled Trolling.jpg.

You'll see where I have my antenna mounted, on the console. When looking
for a place to mount it, I had the boat on a rack next to a Grady White
with the antenna mounted on his hardtop. I received one more satellite
than
he could, with as good or greater signal strength. He immediately got on
his cell-phone and began whining at the Grady folks.

Anyway, that's my two cents, FWIW.

--
John H.

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to
resolve it."
Rene Descartes