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Old 03-17-2023, 01:26 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by sndog View Post
My question, is it possible to have a single GPS antenna providing the data feeds to all the units? Or is there a unit that will plug it into the N2K backbone and all the GPS to feed all units?

Yes.

You may already have that, if at least one of your MFDs has a built-in GPS and if everything is already networked together.

We foound an external GPS to be noticeably more accurate that an internal GPS in a shaded MFD, though.

Ours happens to be the external mushroom GPS that came with our AIS but probably everybody makes one.

You have to enter the menu/setup system on each dependent unit to select whatever GPS source you want from among those on your network.

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