October 8, 2013

GPS150 Shipping Now

Our new DualNav positioning sensor, the GPS150 is now shipping.  DualNav is our technology that allows combination GPS and GLONASS satellite positioning from one system.  Whilst we’re all familiar with GPS, GLONASS has remained a hidden gem!  It’s the Russian funded satellite navigation system and like GPS it’s now global, […]
August 6, 2013

DualNav Is Coming Soon

DualNav is Digital Yacht’s latest technology.  It combines GPS and GLONASS into one positioning sensor so that users can take advantage of dual satellite positioning systems. That means better accuracy as well as improved reliability from two independent systems.  Here’s a quick presentation on our first product to use this […]
July 16, 2013

Integrating a PC into your boat’s navigation system

Utilising a PC on board brings important benefits not just for regular PC tasks such as email and web access but also for entertainment and navigation.  This document explains how to integrate a PC into a boat’s navigation system and this approach offers substantial cost savings over buying a multi […]
June 18, 2013

Connecting our HSC100 Compass Sensor to Furuno Equipment

  Our HSC100 High Speed Compass Sensor is a very popular product for getting 10Hz heading data in to Chart Plotters and Radars, where the high update rate provides smooth chart rotation or radar overlay. Most customers connect up the HSC100 using NMEA0183, but a number of Furuno owners have […]
February 25, 2013

Digital Yacht GPS105 (GPS150) is a perfect replacement for Raystar 120 or 125

Please note that this older post has now been updated for our latest GPS150 smart antenna. With Spring just a few days away and thoughts turning to the new sailing season, we have noticed an above average increase in requests for our GPS150 smart GPS antenna. On further investigation, it […]
September 11, 2012

Re-Configuring an HSC100

Our popular HSC100 compass sensor comes in two versions; the original HSC100 and the newer HSC100T which outputs HDT and ROT for Class A Transponders. In some installations, it is necessary to re-configure the HSC100 to output a different format of compass heading sentence or to change the damping on […]
May 29, 2012

SC500 Chart Plotter Software Update Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgtQ1ZjytmU&feature=plcp

Find out about the latest software upgrade that is available here.

May 28, 2012
SmartTrack NMEA2000 Setup

SmarterTrack Software Gets A New Release

We’ve just launched a new release of SmarterTrack software (VR 6.05) which has some nifty new features. Navionic’s charts can now be copied onto the hard drive of the PC so that the chart doesn’t have to be installed in the reader.  This is great for dual use systems where […]