FN's regular electronics writer, Colin Jones, reviews the Koden MDP 1200 series which will be exhibited at FISHING 2005.

The Koden MDP 1200 combination display series, which first appeared at the 2005 London Boat Show, is yet one more of the fashionable multifunction displays, showing radar, plotter and fishfinder, either one after the other on a whole screen, or in various combinations by dividing the display area.

They can also display other subsidiary functions like repetition of GPS navigation data.

The titles of the various Koden models are confusing, but the confusion disguises a clutch of excellent and very professional pieces of equipment.

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