Here are 2 pics of some bits and pieces of my "portable" kit.
For power, you can either tap into the distribution panel (degree of difficulty varies from boat to boat) or use a cable with a cigarette lighter plug. Many boats have a cigarette lighter socket at, or near the Nav station.
For the...
US7070, you seem fixated on using a PC and ad-hoc networking set up on the PC. You have offered only that solution in any thread on Wifi. While this may work, there are other considerations like cost of the PC, and its software, securing the PC to various nav stations, having to continually run...
The iMux could be pre-programmed with whatever NMEA sentence filters or port configs you want if you ask Brookhouse to do it. In that way, you won't need to initially access the mux via its USB port with any PC/Laptop/notebook that can run a simple terminal program to talk to the mux like...
Shipmodul Miniplex 2-WI
I have one and it can be portable e.g.
- get a length of 2 conductor wire that can be connected to a spare circuit breaker for the power;
- get additional lengths of instrument cable and tap into a NMEA 0183 output from instruments, AIS and GPS
- Use Velcro to mount...