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  PolarCOM is an integrated NMEA 0183 marine navigation instrument data bridge and multipurpose data display. Available for Apple Mac OS X and Windows systems, it combines background server operation with high quality easy to read and fully customizable digital instrument views. PolarCOM is a fully-featured standalone application, as well as a central component of PolarIS -our integrated navigation product. Best of all - PolarCOM is free.

  Some highlights of PolarCOM feature set are:
  • Support for multiple NMEA 0183 data sources and instrument types
  • TCP and UDP network server support permits sharing your NMEA 0183 data with network-enabled navigation software
  • NMEA data logging and replay capability
  • Customizable set of digital and analog instruments for data display, providing virtually infinite combinations of views
  PolarCOM can bridge any NMEA 0183 compatible data. It will understand and display data based on following sentences:
GLL,VTG,RMC,GGA,GSA,GSV,DBK,DBS,DBT,DPT,HDG,HDT,HDM,VHW,VWR,VWT,MWV,MWD,MTW

  PolarCOM provides a number of user-configurable audible and visual alarms including Arrival, Shallow Depth, Anchor Drag and XTE (Cross Track Error).   Available instrument types include: GPS position, Speed Over Ground, Speed Through Water, Analog and Digital Course Over Ground, Analog and Digital Heading, Analog True and Apparent Wind, Depth (DBS/DBK/DBT), Time of Day, GPS Satellite Status, XTE, Bearing/Distance/Estimated Time to Waypoint and Destination.

  Take a look at following screen shots, then visit our download area and try it for yourself!

Wind/Course/Heading Analog Instruments

GPS Instruments (Shown overlaid on PolarView)

Instruments (Night Palette)