I tracked down a senior marketing guy at Lowrance.Īll of Lowrance radios can be cloned for different areas for global sales. (I’d guess that the latter’s name means it will be sold across several Navico brands why not?) It talks Ethernet and can plug directly into many existing Lowrance displays, or multiple displays via a new Navico Expansion Port. Like the fact that most all new Lowrance plotters can now display Navionics Platinum charts and lake maps, especially impressive as the units already work with a variety of formats. The company is also introducing a black box Broadband Sounder that’s said to produce “digitally purified”, “you won’t believe your eyes” echo clarity. (Maybe they’ll let me experiment.)Īnd there’s lots more of note on Lowrance’s press release page. Let’s just say that using the 2000 protocol could make this radio really easy to set up with two way data comms, even to multiple other-brand devices. An exclusive ‘Track Your Buddy’ feature connects DSC position polling to Lowrance LCX, LMS and GlobalMap units via the NMEA 2000 network for GPS location display of up to three boating friends.” The LVR-880 also has a regular 0183 interface, but I’m hoping that it uses standard 2000 messages, so in fact will share GPS and DSC position info with other N2K plotter/GPS’s, but my optimism is tempered by that ‘exclusive’ word and other details we know (like how the new Garmin’s won’t send it GPS yet). The press release says the unit “integrates NMEA 2000 with DSC-101 for distress and buddy-tracking features when connected to a compatible Lowrance GPS chartplotter. But maybe better yet, I think, is the Lowrance style NMEA 2000 plug on the back. Typical current consumption at 12 V DC voltage: 1.If you check the bigger image, you’ll see the FM band button, a welcome first for a fixed VHF radio. Installation kit for flush mount with seal.
If you have waypoints, tracks or frequently used routes stored on another manufacturer’s GPS product - or on a Garmin handheld device - it’s easy to transfer those items to your new Garmin chartplotter via industry-standard GPX software formatting.
Thanks to the generous memory of up to 5,000 points, you can create a large database of your favourite routes. This makes the position movements much smoother. Thanks to the integrated GPS / GLONASS receiver with 10 Hz, the position and the heading are updated 10 times per second. In addition, other supported sailing features include an enhanced wind rose, heading and course-over-ground lines, set and drift, true and apparent wind data and more. To help you gain a wind-maximising competitive edge, your GPSMAP 922 features a pre-race guidance page that shows your virtual starting line along with data fields showing laylines, time to burn before the start and a race timer that can be synchronized across all your networked Garmin GPS products.
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