T&T: : Nobeltec

[Michael Slater]

I have now confirmed that indeed the Koden Radarpc is one in the same save a
couple of decal's and as you say the Jespersen manual is far superior,
albeit a copy. I have been told that the 6kw and lower antenna from Koden,
when Simrad had them, were a problem but I shall be looking at 12 or 25
depending on the deal. I agree with your thoughts on support and am
currently examining that. It would be great if next week Nobeltec announced
that the Furuno UHD antenna, with its Ethernet connection, would plug
straight into my router and that Nobeltec would see it and control it!!! I
won't hold my breath but it cannot be that difficult?

What screens have you got, touch, transflective, and what did you put
outside? How do they perform?

Michael

Sally Lillian
Falmouth UK'



-----Original Message-----
From: George & Emilie Rankin [mailto:gerankin at msn.com] 
Sent: 07 October 2009 05:59
To: trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com
Subject: Re: T&T: : Nobeltec

I don't know for sure but (as I recall) the "brains" for my 12kw came in a
package was all Koden and didn't mention Nobeltec at all.    It had detailed
instructions that seemed geared towards large ships (and had a faint aura of
"translated from Japanese").    In another package I had Nobeltec's
installation instructions.   My overall impression is that Nobeltec's
contribution to that hardware was the name on the antenna, the unlock code
for
their SW, and a second set of (very good) instructions.   I could be
completely off base, but I was curious at the time and didn't really see
anything that indicated that there was a special Nobeltec version other than
for the lettering on the antenna.



However I am sure that if I bought it directly from Koden and then tried to
use Nobeltec, any and all problems would be mutually blamed on the other
company.



George