northstar electronics
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:44 am
is anyone familiar with northstar electronics? i'm looking at a boat with northstar radar/gps unit, but have no experience with this name. thanks, eric
Northstar is one of several companies now part of Navico. Some of the others are Lowrance, Eagle and Simrad.
Northstar and Simrad both market the game-changing broadband radar (BR24) which I have on order. I've just received a Northstar M84 chartplotter - the M84 and M121 are one generation astern of their latest, the HDS series plotter-fishfinder, but I didn't need all the NMEA 2000 functionality and price. So far the manuals for the radar and plotter I have indicate a lot of really nice features and a very user-friendly interface but I have not installed any of the equipment yet so can't give a full report.
I will agree Furuno has great equipment and you'll see it on a lot of commercial vessels but their new stuff is priced way out of my range. I'm replacing a set of 3 1996-vintage Furuno units that display in black and white only, with a single Northstar device.
Hope this was helpful.