Sonar Software for laptop

External Since: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 9

For years I have been using plotting software on a laptop connected to
my Garmin handheld GPS. This season I will be installing an industrial
PC with a 15" screen into my boat dashboard.

I have also used for the past 15 years an Eagle paper plotter fish
finder. It still works fine but the paper is getting more expensive
each year and it is noisy.

Therefore . . .

I was wondering if anyone has made a software package and probably an
interface that would take the sonar signal and display it on the
laptop screen. (If not I am filing for the patent tomorrow!) Smile

Captain Don

External Since: May 05, 2005 Posts: 3

You can usually take the NMEA 0183 serial data output from depthsounders
that output the $SDDPT and/or $SDDBT sentence and display is using
HyperTerminal or other terminal software. This will only display the
digital depth information - not the information in the water column.

If you want a fishfinder type display look at www.cruzpro.com/pcff20.html

Cheers

Bert van den Berg
CruzPro Ltd.

"Don Mahony" wrote in message

>
> For years I have been using plotting software on a laptop connected to
> my Garmin handheld GPS. This season I will be installing an industrial
> PC with a 15" screen into my boat dashboard.
>
> I have also used for the past 15 years an Eagle paper plotter fish
> finder. It still works fine but the paper is getting more expensive
> each year and it is noisy.
>
> Therefore . . .
>
> I was wondering if anyone has made a software package and probably an
> interface that would take the sonar signal and display it on the
> laptop screen. (If not I am filing for the patent tomorrow!) Smile

>
> Captain Don