Sounds good. Hook it up as soon as you can and see how you like it in case you need to return it. Better now than next spring. You can do a temporary setup. Set the scanner on a stepladder or similar with a good long view.
Rich Knowles Indigo. LF38 Halifax On 2012-10-01, at 13:14, "djhaug...@juno.com" <djhaug...@juno.com> wrote: HI Rich, I did decide to try the sitex. I'll keep the list posted on my experience. I ended up purchasing from getfeetwet.com for $619 delivered. I haven't received it yet as I just ordered Friday night. Danny ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Rich Knowles <r...@sailpower.ca> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List chartplotter/radar Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:48:50 -0300 Danny: Sounds as though you have done some useful research. If you decide to purchase, keep us informed. Rich Knowles Indigo. LF38 Halifax On 2012-10-01, at 12:34, "djhaug...@juno.com" <djhaug...@juno.com> wrote: I've done some research on sitex lately. It seems the last company that owned sitex (can't recall the name right now) decided they would move to Washington State and get out of the recreational marine market. It was their intention to shut down the Sitex company. One of the Sitex big wigs decided he didn't want to see the company disappear. So, he found some backers and bought Sitex and re-opened on Long Island. That was 2009. From all of my research, it seemed that the only people that had anything negative to say were people that didn't actually own the equipment. The few post by people that did own the equipment was almost always positive. I called the GPS store and they gave them a good report. I called a company called getfeetwet.com and although, he didn't know much about the company or their products said he hadn't heard anything negative about them and never had any complaints about the stuff he did sell from them. He also said something I hadn't thought about. He said the company has been around a long time and they were obviously selling product or they would have gone out of business. Then he said that the lack of people complaining about Sitex could tell you something as well. Unhappy customers are about 5 times more likely to go out of their way to complain in a public forum. Maybe 5 out of 10. Then, maybe 1 out of 10 happy customers feel compelled to go out and sing the praises of the company. So, in saying that, I think I may have found one negative from an owner of sitex and I'd say I found about 7 or 8 from people that actually owned it and recommended it. I found a bunch from people not recommending it that never owned sitex stuff. I called sitex directly and I got through easily, and on the phone with a guy named Ted, one of they're techs. He stayed on the phone with me for 20 minutes answering questions patiently and plainly. He also invited me to call back with any other questions I may have or, if I decided to buy the sitex chart plotter I was interested in, for any help I may need installing and setting up the unit. I felt the customer service was great in that regard. He told me that, like many of the other electronics companies, they have the units built in Honk Kong to they're specs. I'm not recommending one way or the other. Thats just what I found during a couple of weeks doing google searches and making phone calls. Hope this is helpful, Danny Lolita 1973 Viking 33 Westport Point, MA ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Chris Price <iceboa...@comcast.net> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List chartplotter/radar Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:35:44 +0000 (UTC) I believe Si-Tex is under new ownership. I purchased a VHF for my Mako from them. It failed to work when installed for it's second season. Thy replaced it, no questions asked, and ha worked perfectly ever since. Chris Price Pradel 35-1 From: "Frederick G Street" <f...@postaudio.net> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:55:04 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List chartplotter/radar Yes, Si-Tex has been around for a while, but mostly in the inexpensive radar and fishfinder side of things. Caveat emptor... Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Sep 25, 2012, at 2:15 PM, djhaug...@juno.com wrote: Okay, I found another 7" plotter. It isn't touch screen but is $640 with a C-Map Max charts right in the box! http://www.thegpsstore.com/Sitex-EC7-GPS-Chartplotter-P2357.aspx That seems incredibly inexpensive from a company that has been around a while. _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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