A suggestion for a new topic: Your Parker 2120 is now quite mature in terms of systems installs & mods. A 'tour' of all the electronic & electrical systems and the choices you have made in installing them would, I think, be very instructive. I haven't found such a 'tour' on your channel so far, so thought I would suggest it. Thanks for this video, too.

Love how far the boat has come. You are always looking for ways to improve thanks for bringing us along

This is the kind of random knowledge that a casual boater would never know, awesome video! I've always wondered my GPS always seemed to fluctuate when I get close to channel markers and I had autopilot following my old tracks!

Man you have all the new gadget's, I would never worry going boating with you. My little 16.7 only has me to watch. Cool

Cap I absolutely love this video. I always hated the fact I would go right by a channel marker and my gps would say is farther away then is was. I had no idea could use another antenna source this is absolutely awesome and you did inside vs outside. Way to go captain

Believe if it was me , I would have been looking for good location outside cabin up higher. If you need to drill a hole to run the coax cable in, then you seal it up with some caulk surely no problems. Regardless of how you want it, you have improved it. Thanks Capt.!

This takes "Navigate Safe" to another level! You can also pinpoint those underwater reefs for bigger fishes! Great improvement, Captain!

Nice video Captain! Less holes in the boat is a good thing!

One more video with complete information and the good reason why we must upgrading gps antenna for more accurate navigation system also safety features.thanks captain.stay safe captain

Always learn something from your videos. Thanks

Nice video! Thanks for all good info.

Hi Capt.... Thank you for this Super-Helpful video! Our last boat had an external GPS antennas mounted high above the flybridge, which did great. I've always wondered how good the reception is with the internal antenna on our Garmin 1040XS in our pilothouse. On occasion I've checked to see how many satellites I receive, but it never occurred to me to check the accuracy 'system/GPS' section of the plotter... I will do so today. By the way, at times, in very tight channels, the Garmin 1040XS has shown me 40+ feet off, up on land! Yes, really! Thank you once again!

Grate info as always 👍🏼👍🏼

Great video Capi is incredible how important is that antenna especially for the markers excellent job 👍 . Navigate safe 👌.

greeting 19:30 Indonesia .Lovely channel during my Breakfasting time..we here also installed indoor on most fishing boat Nice capt

Great video, just installed the Garmin 24 XD to my 7612's. Hope I get same results you got.

Great video very useful information to share with other people. Thanks Cappy.

Good one cap. So happy we don’t need another hole in boat. 😁

Hi Capt... I'm 'reporting back' , as I promised.... Here are the results of our Garmin 1040XS. To Start With; It was a clear day. I have no external antenna. The boat was on the boat-lift; not moving/not navigating. I tested it over a 30-40 minute period. The GPS was showing seven satellites the entire time, with VERY strong reception. And, it was consistently showing 7' to 8' accuracy-range. The worst it showed was 9'... BUT, here is the interesting (or crazy? unusual? scary? ) part. Like I said, I was on our boat-lift, on the east side of our canal. The GPS was showing our boat to be in the neighbors yard, over 120' to the west of me! The GPS is 'saying' only a 7' to 8' variance, yet I was shown to be at LEAST 80' away from where it said I was.... If I had been relying on the GPS coming into this 80' - 100' wide channel/canal. I would have ended up with the boat sitting up in my neighbors yard! (They would not like that! ☺)

Very useful info.

Great info 👍🏾

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WOW! It better be more accurate for $304.95! Nothing but the best for the "Crooked Pilothouse" Great info! Thanks for sharing! 😎👍⚓

Awesome video Captain. 🙂👍

Right on Capt. Sweet sled! Thanks for doing this it was exactly the info I was looking for. I have the same MFD as you in my boat. Its installed in a custom console that is mounted overhead with a fiberglass hard top over it. When I'm offshore I keep getting intermittent "satellite signal lost " warnings and the chart plotter will completely stop tracking me. Very frustrating when you cant see land. Again, its an intermittent loss of satellites. It sometimes looses signal for several hours before it regains a connection or signal and starts working again... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and so on.. Seems like the farther offshore I go the more it looses its signal. Weird, I know. I've confirmed the chart plotter is operating on the latest version of software etc .. I've lost trust in the internal antenna so I started exploring options and stumbled across your video here. . I'm thinking I need this external GPS antenna as my display doesn't have a clear view of the sky. Looks like a plug and play installation for the most part. I already have the nmea 2000 network to plug into too. Thanks for the upload I'm going give this a try and hope this works for me!

Nice capitan thanks. God bless.

🤜🤛👍👍👍 nice work

New Subscriber to your channel. Just wanted to say thanks for all your videos. Garmin should give you a referral bonus because I bought a Garmin Chartplotter and an AutoPilot set-up because of your recommendation. I'm also gonna pull the trigger on an external antenna. I'm near Davie, maybe sometime we can get together and talk boating and installation. I'm going to do the install myself. Appreciate any advise.

That's a cool antenna.

Hi Capt... another update; I'm sure I would benefit with an external antenna, like you suggested.... Today I was out on the boat for about 6 hours. The Garmin 1040XS was receiving 12-13 satellites most of the day, and with strong signals. The GPS was showing only 21-22' accuracy. Since that could be in all directions around the boat, it means I could be 42-44' off course of where it was showing me to be. That would be no big deal today as I was mostly in the wide-open waters of the Pungo River and Pamlico Sounds, but coming back into our canal, it would not be reliable at night..... Interestingly, the GPS was showing only 21-22' accuracy, but when doing so, it WAS showing me in the center of the canal as I was coming in....

Did the gps antenna give you radar overlay on your charts. Or was that feature there already? Thanks Capt

hey Captain. love the channel. question- do you know if I should install the Garmin 24xd external antenna and a Garmin steady cast antenna or does the 24xd do it all? I have a center console , thanks for your great videos.

Hey mate just curious couldnt you use the garmin auto pilot sensor to interface with mfd? I bought a raymine150 n retured it got rec 40 with 2l pump..since i have 8412xsv. Great content ,super love ut and appreciate what you do.

Afternoon Cap, does the internal antenna support GLONAS? I noticed in the video it was off but the external antenna had it on. Curious if the additional satellites would make the difference in the dilution of precision (variance)? Great informative video regardless.

Hi Captain, I just purchased the Garmin Steadycast heading sensor that I will hook up to the NMEA 2000 for my Garmin 1223XSV. I would like to hook up an external antenna as well. Is there an antenna without the heading sensor combined with it? Hope all is well.

Unrelated to this vid, but we’re curious what insurance co you use for your Parker? We have a 22’ c-dory we’d like to take to the Bahamas but some companies won’t offer Bahamas coverage for this size boat.

GOOD ONE SKIPPER, GOOD ADVICE,,,KEEP SAFE..

Would be helpful when fishing next to a marine fish reserve

Very important in a pilot house when you have less visibility

Do they have an antenna with a heading sensor? Like this the chart plotter would show both your actual heading and when stationary your drift.

Hi Capt. What size is that Garmin Chart plotter, is it a 743 or 943?

Very good video. let me ask you something. Do I need to calibrate the GPS to use this antenna ? If I do need , how can i do it ?

Hi capitán 👋👋🇵🇷🇵🇷👍

A lot of the new sharp waters have built-in, GPS antennas

So, how many antennas do you have overall? Do you have one for the autopilot and one for your chart plotter?

Didn’t even know that that’s crazy 20ft of variance

Hi wich gps do you have?

Interesante bendito yo no gps ni siquiera uno viejo y soy pescador. Jajaja

The difference between 6.5 feet and 5.4 feet is 9.8%. Almost a foot, that is a big difference. :)

It’s 6.5 feet because you have WAAS and GPS together whereas the other guy just had GPS on. I get 5 feet having WAAS, GPS and GLONASS on.

You don't want to go bump in the night.

Just a sugestion: don't use mask while making videos! It seems not friendly!

Are you a bank robber?

knowing the internal antenna is that much off, they should give you the external antenna.

Dude. Why the face cover ? Especially if you’re explaining electrical info. Sometimes it is hard to understand you… Are you running from the police ? Just wondering…

Lose the lame mask.