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Furuno Winners again! "NMEA Technology Award" 2017 Shotgun Marine

Furuno Winners again! "NMEA Technology Award" 2017

Posted by Shotgun Shelly on 17th Oct 2017

FURUNO Repeats as Winner of Coveted "NMEA Technology Award" for Multi Beam Sonar, alongside Best Commercial Radar

A board of four judges, including media and merchants, filters through named items and chooses every year on the innovation victor. "What emerged about the Furuno DFF-3D from the numerous commendable contenders is that it is the business' first profound water multi-pillar sonar," the judges said. "It conveys a side-examine scope of more than 650 feet and can see straight down to more than 1,000 feet. Its novel 165 kHz recurrence enables you to see the DFF-3D sonar while all the while using your customary or CHIRP (TruEcho CHIRP™) sonar. Over that boaters can tweak its show utilizing four modes—cross-area, 3D sounder history, triple/single-bar sounder and side output".

This was the second year for the "Business Product of Excellence" classification, and Furuno by and by was the victor as their Radar FAR-2127, 25kW IMO Radar, guaranteed the honor in the Commercial classification, among a generous field of 10 candidates. This workhorse Radar, which is a piece of a bigger arrangement that incorporates both X-band and S-band Radars, can be discovered introduced on a great many business vessels worldwide and is additionally broadly utilized on bigger recreational water crafts and yachts.

"We are extremely humbled to have received the 'NMEA Technology Award' for the second year in a row, after our Solid State Doppler Radar DRS4D-NXT was honored with the same award last year," stated Brad Reents, President and CFO of Furuno USA. "Furuno specializes in developing unmatched sensor technology for the maritime industry and the DFF-3D is our most recent example how Furuno continues to move our industry forward".

Furuno's long and recognized convention of creating top performing and exceptionally dependable Fish Finding and Radar items was reaffirmed with these honors from the NMEA. For those of you keeping track of who's winning at home, that conveys Furuno's terrific aggregate to a surprising 220 NMEA grants!

Camas, WA - October 2, 2017. The National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) held its 46th yearly gathering and expo in Bellevue, Washington USA a week ago. This year, Furuno gladly guaranteed the exceptionally looked for after 2017 NMEA Technology Award for their new Network Multi Beam Sonar, DFF-3D. 

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