The most important thing, since I'm sailing with my kids, if they should ever need to push "the button" on the Link 8. Then I found an old NMEA0183 cable for the Link 8, Google'd some colorful wires, so now at least I have a GPS position showing up on the Link 8. Tried setting Baud in different variants but to no help. Since I just recently upgraded the software on my Raymarine MDF, I thought I'd give the NMEA2000 a new try, but nope. Yesterday I was in the back of my electrical panel, making some sort of much needed order in all my cables. I figured it could be a faulty NMEA2000 cable, but all of them seems to be just fine after I've checked them. Then the Link 8 lost it's GPS positioning from the MDF, and the MDF haven't seen any AIS signal ever since. After upgrading my Link 8 on his kitchen table, I got back to my boat, hooked up all the expensive NMEA2000 wiring and backbone, and voilá! It worked! For two weeks. I got help from a guy on a Norwegian board - a Simrad Guru, so to speach. After buying a Lowrance Link-8 back in 2012, I had to get an software upgrade, which at the time no Lowrance support could guide me to or provide.
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