The GNS 3000 to Global Navigation Systems has been available since November 2022 (¹). It replaces the GNS 2000 Plus. Now equipped with a Bluetooth transmitter 5.0, it has an SD Card connector to record position data continuously.
Compatible with Apple products, it is mainly aimed at devices not equipped with GPS : iPod Touch and iPad WiFi all models. It can also be used with all PDAs, Bluetooth-enabled laptops and tablets. It has a Li-Ion battery offering a battery life of 10 hours continuously.
[Update 15 May 2024] Warning : from iOS/iPadOS 17.x, a update of the device is essential. But it can only be done from an Android device.
Equipped with the latest chipset Mediatek MT3333, it is now compatible with European GALILEO networks, American GPS, Russian GLONASS systems, BEIDOU chinois, and the majority of SBAS (³).
Features :
- Non-slip silicone coating
- Receiver GPS/GLONASS/GALILEO/BEIDOU all-in-one 99 -Channels
- Multi-support SBAS : WAAS/EGNOS/QZSS/MSAS/GAGAN (³)
- Class 2 Bluetooth 5.0, scope 10 meters high
- Automatic standby in the absence of a Bluetooth connection
- Multi-client Bluetooth support up to 5 connexions simultaneous
- On/off via side switch
- Li-Ion batteries, autonomy 10 hours steps, recharge 0-100% in 3.5h.
- USB-C connector for charging (cable provided)
- SD Card connector for data recording
- Dimensions : 79 x 45 x 11 mm
- Weight : 47 grammes
For ten years, with the first model 5870 MFI, these GPS receivers have proven their effectiveness in all areas of activity. Like previous models, the battery life is still 10 hours in use, which corresponds to the autonomy of iPads in general. With a range of 10 meters high, we can keep the GNS 3000 in the chart table and move around with mobiles throughout the boat. From 60 feet, it will be better to keep it in your pocket !
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(¹) GNS 3000 chez iTabNav.fr
(²) GNS 3000 User Manual (EN)
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(³) See SBAS in the Glossary
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I actually talked about it a few years ago https://www.navigation-mac.fr/un-transpondeur-ais-wifi-compatible-avec-inavx/
But little distributed in France(except SVB via internet.
Hello Francis,
I discovered Weather4D with you and have been a fan ever since 2017. Initially I used INavX.
The little-known in France is the Weatherdock company which produces a VERY complete range of Security/Ais equipment with an impeccable function.. An EasyTRX 2-SI-Wifi model helped me navigate solo from Lesconil to Lisbon. On an iPad mini with Weather4D for my navigation with SHOM maps preferably, for marina or port entrances I use Navionics for this they are perfect (especially at night or early morning).
Merci
Bonjour
Can you tell me if you need to jailbreak your iPhone to use this external GPS antenna??
Sincerely,
Benjamin
Of course not, let's see, it's a Bluetooth connection. There will never be any question of jailbreaking on this blog, I don't agree with this method.
I notice with each passing day that new GPS, new nmea wifi multiplexers released. I will probably seem archaic to you but when will the waves end??
Let me explain. I am the happy owner of a steel cutter that we have just refurbished in the West Indies. I redid all the on-board electronics and invested in an iPad and inavx to use as a plotter at the helm. As much as possible, and to the extent that my boat is equipped with nmea to send GPS and AIS data to my PC (via serial cable) I would like to do the same on the iPad.
That's when my problem gets complicated.. I categorically refuse to install a wifi transmitter on board my boat. I am one of the shaken people who find that we live surrounded by too many electromagnetic waves. Rot my brain even more by locking a wifi transmitter in a steel box (where we live) … No thanks!
We are certainly in an era where being very connection cable for its decor is out of date and deserves an automatic classification as “geek”, I would like one of our illustrious industrialists to take into account that wireless does not only have advantages, and sometimes a good old copper cable covered in plastic does the same job and more healthily!
As for my request, Is there somewhere a syphonist like me to create a cable for iPad capable of transmitting NMEA data from GPS and AIS to this one?? Preferably while being able to charge the device simultaneously. Yes I know I am demanding, but until now I only found the GPS cable alone… Disappointment.
So I'm probably going against the majority of the world's population., but we already live in an open-air microwave on earth, if we have the possibility of limiting our exposure even a little when we are at sea, I would find it a shame not to do it!
Kind regards,
The siphon of the jar
Chris
Cher Chris, your comment makes me die of laughter. No, no mockery, be reassured, but because you highlight an aspect that neither I, nor has any navigator I know ever mentioned.
Despite the content of this blog in which I advocate WiFi transmissions for the greater benefit of iPhone and iPad users, I humbly recognize that your comment is full of common sense.. Who does not criticize, in our continental communes, the proliferation of communication antennas of all kinds, and the harm they can cause to our health and that of our children ? Alas, even the most vindictive detractors are the same ones who vilify operators when their cell phones fail, offline.
Alas, there would still remain a space free from any harmful waves : the sea ? Well yes. Just navigate like I did for decades, with a simple GPS and a few wired instruments. At best, with some means, a nautical chart reader. Unfortunately, regarding the iPad, Apple refuses any physical system (or almost, there are exceptions) allowing instrumentation to be connected to it. It must be agreed that the use of the iPad or iPhone for pleasure boating did not fall within their priority targets.. We are therefore forced, and – and only if – we want to display the data from our instruments on an iPad, to use WiFi connection means.
But I want to reassure you, an iPad (with integrated GPS) equipped with quality software and appropriate cartography can take you to the ends of the earth without any on-board instrument being connected to it. The dials and repeaters are sufficient in themselves, what is the need to interface them to an iPad ? And the AIS, you could say. There are screens such as Watchmate which fulfill this office perfectly.
You can therefore ban WiFi from your board, and navigate safely.