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What a mess!
I hate to spend money on a magnetron for an obsolete radar, but if the alternative is tossing the whole system and starting over again -- I guess that's the only way to do it.
Concerning AIS -- I guess I could buy a freestanding system with separate monitor, or just feed the AIS received data into the laptop. It looks like it would be a lot simpler than trying to integrate the whole system -- DefJef's system looks like a nightmare, even with the AIS-ready MFD!
It looks to me like these systems are not really ready for prime time. Anything so Rube Goldberg has got to be prone to glitches, crashes, and outright failure, and these are not systems you want to go poof on you just when you need them. Who has a systems engineer with him at all times at sea?!
Probably better to have a few separate systems which are not dependent on one another, and maybe with some redundancy.
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