By: Bimol Bee
Submitted: 2011-11-29 09:36:47 | Word Count: 516
At last, your dream has come true and you have the boat you have always dreamed about for such a long period of time. However, before going out for a ride on the water, it's recommended to equip your boat with special electronic accessories that'll make your boating trip safer and more interesting. Northstar Marine Electronics will offer you what you exactly need to enjoy your boat to the fullest.
First of all, you'll need a VHF radio that's a safety feature necessary for every boat. Thus in case of any problem with your boat you can use a VHF radio in order to ask for help and not to be left on your own with your problems.
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The NS100 VHF radio is available in single/dual station variants. They have a special distress call button that will automatically transmit your MMSID and location until an acknowledgment signal is got. It'll access all marine VHF channel banks, as well as the weather ones.
Besides, the Northstar Explorer 721 and 725 offer a built-in barometric pressure sensor giving weather and fish activity information. There's a "Happy Fish" icon on the display that'll assist you to determine the location of fish. The 721 and 725 can be equipped with wireless handheld units, while the 725 offers a "Track Your Buddy" feature for getting up to three other boats and marking their locations on the chart display.
Northstar Marine Electronics offers a variety of navigation tools, like the Chartplotter 8000i, a multi-functional instrument having a 12-inch touch screen display. If you wish to have some other equipment in addition to the VHF radio, consider the 8000i. It'll offer you a depth sounder, chartplotter, network camera monitor, radar, engine management system video monitor, DVD player, music jukebox, CD player, fuel and instrument repeater.
If you're searching for a chartplotter / sonar combo, pay special attention to the Explorer series, models 650, 657 and 660. Each of them has a built in 32 megabyte background maps having intricate cartographic detail. In this way you can use a C-MAP NT MAX chart technology offered by cartography leader C-MAP. And the Explorer 538 is a chartplotter having an easy menu system and even a daylight viewable screen. It's added with a regular background map of 16 MB and space for the C-MAP NT MAX cartridge. The 3.A display of 8 inches is "transflective" havinghigh contrast for you to read it easily in bright days. This chartplotter is well combined with the Explorer 438 fish finder. The 438 model has a monitor (640 by 480) offering great detail. Besides, it offers digital sounder technology giving you the highest quality sonar images. Advanced displays contain split screen variable zoom, A-scope, and your choice of color palette. There're 256 colors for you to be able to see the nature of the floor structure in order to identify fish habitats.
Marine elecronics should equip your boat in such a way you could enjoy it to the fullest. Northstar offers the marine electronics equipment that'll assist you to boat safely with the equipment of the highest quality.
