JRC Radar

[swist]

Anyone have the low-end JRC LCD radar (the one that sells for under $1000)? This is the least expensive radar on the market and I'm always suspicious....

 

[ThomWV]

Re: JRC Radar

There have been an awful lot of those JRCs sold and everyone I've talked to that picked on up is happy with theirs. At that level of cost there really aren't many choices, the Furuno 1622 being about the only real alternative unless you want to pick up something used. The next level of radars will run you more on the order of $1,400, and would include the Furuno 1712 and the Raytheon SL-72 along with a couple of others that I wouldn't even consider. After that you bump into the 4 kW range and the price starts to go up dramatically.<br /><br />Thom

 

[Boatist]

Re: JRC Radar

Two friends I made at a ocean campground we fish out of each had radar. The guy with the raytheon was always giving the guy with the JRC a bad time about buy a cheap unit until one day when the ratheon guy wanted help to move his unit to a new mount. <br /><br />In the process of the move they took the cover off the Antenna. Inside the ratheon every thing said JRC. Now the guy with the cheap JRC is giving the guy with the Raytheon a bad time about paying top doller for a JRC unit he could have got much cheaper. I see these guys quite often when we are down there and both are very happy with there units.

 

[ThomWV]

Re: JRC Radar

JRC used to make many of the components for the Raytheon line, and they manufactured all of Raytheon's Apelco line, which was their inexpensive lineup, much like Lowarance has Eagle. The relationship between the companys seems to have ended sometime around the year 2000 and with the break of the consumer marine division of Raytheon to be bought by the Ray Marine Group (in England) the ralationship with JRC ended. So anyone buying a Ray unit today would not be getting JRC.<br /><br />Thom