Raymarine sucks!

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djboots

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Sorry i just need to vent:smt013

I have a Raymarine 210 Radio, the mic is bad but the radio works perfect. You can not find a replacment mic anywhere! They do not carry them anymore and no other ones are compatable(unless you know otherwise)

I called Raymarine and they said I could send it in and they could fit a mic to it. But **** thats going to cost as much as a new radio. So now i have to spend money on a whole new radio...then i have to deal with retro fitting it in the old hole in the dash..grrr
 
Icom...

You haven't even met the Raymarine fluxgate yet....
 
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Raymarine VHF radios are mediocre. They're not as terrible as some Uniden radios but they are nowhere as good as Icom or Standard Horizon. Consider this a great opportunity to get a VHF that will perform well. Either Icom or Standard Horizon will serve you well.

Best regards,
Frank
 
Don't forget the Nav 396 with the buggy SeaTalk interface that hangs all the other devices on the bus.
 
I have a 210 Raymarine Radio that the connection for the microphone has a short - I made a mistake of upgrading to the new Raymarine Radio - that was the same size - guess what it didn't fit. In retrospect - I would have bought a Standard or Icom.
 
Four Suns said:
Have you met the Raymarine RN300 GPS?
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My RN300 works fine still, but I can't for the life of me see what the utility of this device is? I have a 1995 era Garmin handheld that has as much functionality as this thing. And it seems like some boats came from the factory with ONLY this thing. What the heck good would that do anyone?
 
I must be misunderstanding something.

Your boat is a 2000- nine years old. You say you'd have to retrofit the dash to replace it- does that mean it was original equipment on the boat? If not, it can't be much newer than that.

It's an obsolete model. Not even DSC capable- a huge safety feature.
Electronic items- marine or otherwise- have a limited "supportable" life nowadays.
No way would I fault RM for not supporting it.

Try getting parts for your ten-year old projection television.
How's that 486 computer working?

C'mon- spend a couple of hundred bucks and upgrade to a current, safer radio.
Personally, I'm not a fan of RM VHF's. Let the others bash away, I have zero issues with my RM chartplotters and peripherals.
 
They dont call it rayjunk for no reason!! Yea like here DSC radios are goingto save ur ass .... NOT ... There gps antenna issues... Legendary Heading sensor issues... come on... Think im on my third Rayjunk radio, 2nd gps antenna .. Heading sensor was replaced last year with KVH... List goes on....

Rob
 
The 80486 was introduced about 1990. You're thinking of the Pentium III which is still running quite a bit of stuff. I still have a dual processor Pentium II (circa 1996) system running as my main windows server and it's doing quite fine, thank-you-very-much... for a windoze machine
 
skolbe said:
I have a 210 Raymarine Radio that the connection for the microphone has a short - I made a mistake of upgrading to the new Raymarine Radio - that was the same size - guess what it didn't fit. In retrospect - I would have bought a Standard or Icom.
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If that was a new 55 or 218, you need a install kit which is a ring flange $30. Makes neat install for those radios when replacing a RM220VHF
 
I guess I'm not a harsh critic of RM electronics. I've had my core electronics from Autohelm/Vigil/Kenyon/Raytheon/RayMarine for over 25 years. I've also had Somebodys Trasit SatNav, sombody's Loran-C/Apelco Radio Beacon Locator, Navionics SatNav, SEA SSB, ICOM VHF, ICOM Handheld VHF, Std Horizion Hand Held, Uniden VHF and the list goes on, I got to tell you, I've always made home port on Raymarine and its grand parents.

And stuff happens to them all when you use them in the salt water enviroment. I've never really had a hard core POS except a Uniden Hand Held.

Everybodys experience is different I guess.
 
I still have the original radio in my second boat, a 1988 300 Weekender, that I purchased new in March of '89. It still works just fine except for a few of the LED's that no longer illuminate on the display. I always carry a portable radio and a cell phone just in case of a problem.

Did you do a search on eBay? You can probably purchase a matching radio with working microphone and swap it out.
 
Presentation said:
My Wang 8086 keeps on running!
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I haven't heard that name since circa 1984 or so.
Right out of college, I started working for a residential builder. One of the very first to implement a computerized job cost accounting system.

Dos based (of course), the Wang mainframe was the size of a large file cabinet.
It had a HUGE hard drive capacity of 10 MB...that's right, MB.
 
see... if it was today, Wang would get some bailout funds... Look at all the jobs lost at the punch card machine factories..

and we should still be using punch cards... I mean... come on... It's really Bush's fault the punch card industry imploded.
 
djboots,

I replaced last year my Ray 210 VHF with a Icom 504, my unit just had a bad Vol/Pwr switch. My microphone was good, and for some strange reason I held onto the radio, do you want me to send you the mircophone? You can have it... Let me know.
 
I still have customers with Vmails running DOS on a 286.
 
How about this one. Brand new 36 sedan bridge. Raymarine E120, auto pilot, and compass. The trusty compass seems right, but the E120 is not even close and the auto pilot reading is a little off. Don't you think the one thing that would have been checked prior to delivery was to make sure all this great new technology actually worked in sequence with each other?? Now it seems like it is going to take a scientist to figure out how this is suppose to work.


Dan:huh:
 
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