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Color Radar Shoot-out
Furuno’s 1834C is our Best Buy. Garmin’s GMR-40 comes up short. Northstar’s 6000i disappoints.
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The Furuno has it all. It performed flawlessly, it’s easy to use, and it’s reasonably priced. The only drawback is that the Furuno takes slightly longer to set up than some of the other systems.
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The last radar test we did was back in the fall of 2004, and consisted of small 2 kW entry-level radar units with 7-inch screens. This time, we decided to test 4 kW units with LCD screens from 10 to 12 inches. The units had to have a radome-style antenna in the 4 kW power rating, and we stuck to units capable of being networked into a system (not PC-type configurations). When we cross-checked radar specifications against our test parameters, we came up with a strong field of six best-sellers: Furuno’s 1834C NavNet VX2, Garmin’s 3010C w/ GMR-40 Radome, JRC’s JMA-5104, Brunswick’s 10.4-inch Northstar 6000i, Raymarine’s E120, and Simrad’s RA41C. …
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