SEVERNA PARK, Md. — The National Marine Electronics Association today announced this year's recipients of the product awards distributed at NMEA's Annual Convention and Exposition October 20-23, 2004 at The Registry Resort & Club in Naples, Florida. The NMEA product awards recognize excellence in design, performance and reliability in marine electronics products. The awards are selected by votes from marine electronics dealers, distributors and other industry professionals. According to the rules, each active, non- manufacturer member of the NMEA and each NMEA- certified marine electronics technician are allowed to cast one vote. At this year's Convention there were 35 participating companies and a total of 118 nominated products.


The NMEA product awards recognize excellence in design, performance and reliability in marine electronics products. The awards are selected by votes from marine electronics dealers, distributors and other industry professionals. According to the rules, each active, non- manufacturer member of the NMEA and each NMEA- certified marine electronics technician are allowed to cast one vote. At this year's Convention there were 35 participating companies and a total of 118 nominated products.

NMEA 2004 Product Award Winners

Autopilot Recreational Simrad AP25
Autopilot Commercial Simrad AP50
Compass-Electronic Simrad RC36
Electronic CartographyC-Map C-Map NT+
GPS/DGPS/WAAS Position Receiver Furuno GP37
Instrumentation Furuno RD30
Integrated Navigation System Furuno NavNet
Marine Antenna Digital Antenna 529-VW
Marine Specialty Product Digital Antenna DA4000
Navigation Plotter Furuno GP1900C
Navigation Software Nobeltec Visual Navigation Suite 7.0
Radar-Recreational Furuno NavNet 1800/1900
Radar-Commercial Furuno FR-2107
Satellite Communications KVH Industries Tracphone 252
Shipboard Power Systems Newmar Phase Three Battery Charger
Sonar Furuno CH250
SSB Radiotelephone ICOM M802
Stabilized TV Antenna KVH TracVision 4
UAIS Furuno FA-100
VHF RadiotelephoneFixed ICOM M602
VHF Radiotelephone Portable ICOM M88
Video Sounder/Fish finder-Recreational Furuno FCV582L
Video Sounder/Fish finder-Commercial Furuno FCV1100
Best of ShowRaymarine's C120