Dennison,
I have both a Raymarine E-120 and E-80 on board.....but not a FAX-30, although I am familar with its operation (I have a seperate dedicated WeFax unit), so I hope I can shed some light....
I'm going to make a quick asumption here.....
Your question of whether they can "talk" to each other, leads me to answer whether the E-series can
display weather charts recieved by the FAX-30????
The answer to that is: Probably not....
The Furuno "NavNet" / "NavNet2"
network isn't compatible with the propritary Raymarine
SeaTalk HS (Hi-Speed)
network......
But, the FAX-30 can output to a PC with an standard ethernet jack......
So, you could use a
laptop (with web browser) connected to the FAX-30.....
According to Furuno:
On a PC, the
images and information are displayed by simply using your Web Browser. There is no complicated proprietary
software to install or learn. You can even print all of the information using your PC and printer!
So, unless Raymarine has some
software update which allows their E-series displays to operate as a PC with browser (NOT likely ever going to be the case), or they have some software that emulates the Furuno display software (yeah, like that's likely!
), you're not likely to ever be able to get the FAX-30 to display its output on your E-series
chartplotter....
Good luck....
John