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Just what you need to get over the last of the Winter blues – the promise of Spring and the chance of a £50 voucher to spend on whatever you like in the Quark-elec Online Mall! Like us on Facebook before 30th March to be in with a chance of winning!
Now on QK-A024, QK-A026, QK-A027 and QK-A031. As we upgrade and develop our products we like to add things which our customers will find useful. As a result we can now announce that all units of the following models will now come with Station Mode facility as well as Ad-hoc on 802.11 b/g/n WiFi. This […]
Latest field test of Patented Autohopping Algorithm Quark-elec AIS Receivers QK-A021 and A023 feature our Patented Auto-hopping algorithm. The facility to select operator set intervals for auto-hopping is newly available and will be supported in the A021 V2.0 (to be released in Jan 2018) and the A023 (from Dec 2017). An integral part of inventing and developing sophisticated algorithms is the field testing process, […]
It’s always great to see people all over the world finding novel uses for our products. Here’s one from Italy from the Andrea Millozzi Tech blog. It’s in Italian but if you hit the Google Translate button, it does a pretty good job. http://www.andreamillozzi.it/articolo/sim-antifurto-domotica-telecomando-sms-gsm-senza-scadenza SIM card for burglar alarm-domotics, GSM remote control to operate devices […]
We have introduced two new products since the last Quick Reference chart was posted – QK-A031 Multiplexer, which has proved very popular and the newly released QK-A027 SeaTalk Converting AIS Receiver with GPS and WiFi.
Release date 31st October QK-A027 AIS Receiver with GPS, WiFi, NMEA out and SeaTalk Input Released on October 31st, a new addition to the Marine Electronics Family. Building on the success of the previous models our new AIS Receiver adds SeaTalk capability to the already impressive suite of input options on the QK-A026 and […]
A great review from Erkki on Tindie Very, very good all in one GPS + AIS receiver! Sept. 18, 2017 – QK-A026 Wireless AIS+GPS Receiver This little box contains all you can wish for, real dual channel AIS receiver, a really good GPS receiver, all sorts of connectivity, from old school RS232 to USB and WIFI ! […]
A question we get asked a lot! There are an ever increasing number of Apps out there now, some good, some….less so. We could go out and test every single one, but then we wouldn’t have time to do the R&D which drives our products forward. We love the R&D part of our job, so […]
All of our Marine Electronics are compatible with Windows 7/8 and 10. The drivers will support most set ups back to XP and they should self-install. A new COM port will automatically show up in Device Manager when you plug it in. The USB connection can always be checked using a Terminal Monitoring Application such […]
Another easy comparison chart, this time for WiFi remote controllers. Find out more: Wifi Remote Controllers Special Offer this Month: QK-W015 Smart Wifi remote control module/Switch From Internet with Power plug and Three RF Power Sockets Or our other models: Online Mall
We know that working out which controller you need can be confusing so we put this comparison chart together to make it simpler: Quick Reference Chart for GSM/SMS Remote Controllers
