Anchor watch app12/20/2023 The diagram above from the Cortex Hub manual is a useful visual of the system’s many capabilities, but please note how a “Secondary VHF” can connect to the M1’s built-in antenna splitter. And, yes, the prices took me aback at first too, but that’s no longer true now that I’ve experienced how central Cortex can be to a safe and relaxed vessel.ĭual antenna splitters The Cortex M1 hub can be the center of a vast hardware, data, and feature network I’m not saying that you won’t be sorely tempted to add a handset once you understand how well it works with all the hub can do, but let’s focus on the hub’s standalone abilities first. To be more specific, Vesper sent me the $1,849 Cortex V1 kit above for testing, but you can purchase the M1 hub for $1,299 and later add one or many H1 or H1P handsets for $599 each. This plan also makes sense because the hub can be purchased standalone, and it might be all the Cortex some boaters want. So this entry is all about what the M1 hub can do by itself, with details of the VHF radio and H1 handsets to follow. But that’s my plan for this review.Īfter intently testing Vesper Marine’s Cortex system over the last two months, I have more to say than fits even a long Panbo entry (and even despite Ben Stein’s detailed coverage of the Cortex launch last fall). What a box! If possible, I’d expand the headline to “excellent AIS transceiver, dual antenna splitter, high-performance GNSS, AIS display and collision avoidance, NMEA 0183 & 2000 data multiplexing, nav app WiFi support, anchor watch, and general off-boat monitoring.” And even that long list leaves out the powerful VHF radio that’s also inside the M1 hub, accessible with the innovative multifunction Cortex handsets, and understandably the most prominent feature in Vesper’s marketing.
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