[CA] [CA11] Upgrade to Axiom and integrate the rest

[BDofMSP]

Thank you. That helps clarify some things. I've just left the GPS off for now and I'll see how performance is. The plotter is in the flybridge so it should have fine line of sight.

Per the autopilot manual "The 1420 Autopilot has a data bus that sends out NMEA 0183 heading information to other external devices such as Radars. Heading data is transmitted once per second and provides two NMEA sentences: HDM (magnetic heading) and HDG (magnetic heading, deviation & variation). The serial data rate is 4800 Baud. The output signal has enough drive capability for up to six NMEA 0183 Listeners."

I dry fitted that to the NMEA 0183 channel one input (white and green) and the MFD recognized it as sending heading information. Unfortunately it requires a special connector which I don't have. I have an email into the vendor to determine if one is still available. In the meantime I'm assuming that I just won't have MARPA or a heading reading on the MFD - correct?

Lastly I cannot test the feed of waypoints to the autopilot until I can get the boat out. That will come after I complete mounting the MFD.

Thank you much,
BD