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Which Radar might work in the future?
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Hey guys,

I have been reading this blog, and love the work that you are all achieving here.  I will definitely be making up my own system over the next year or two.  Other boat jobs will stop me from achieving this any sooner.

Right now I have a problem with the resident Nav system and wondering what I should be repairing or not.  I am guessing that proprietary analog radars (like my existing Raymarine RD218) will never talk to anything other than their dedicated partner display.

Any ideas which Radar will be supported in future year(s)?  I see that most of the new HD Digital Radar offer Ethernet / Wifi connectivity. 

Already the Garmin HD/xHD are able to be displayed as overlays on OpenCPN - anyone have experience of this?  Is a reliable function or just for playing?  Anyone know of other development for other manufacturers'?

In summary, I am wondering if I should remove the Raymarine system and replace with Garmin, then implement OpenPlotter and OpenCPN as the ultimate tool in a year or two.

Thanks, Andy
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Sorry YachtShah, no experience in radars but really interested on opencpn radar plugins performance on openplotter. Anyone?

These seems to be the options:

https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/plugins/gradar.html
https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/plugins/gXradar.html
https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/plugins/navicoradar.html
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