So, I put the old one back on by stretching it onto the antenna and the unit started working again! WHAT? But it stopped working after 3 days! While doing this at the spreaders in a bosun chair, I stretched the new drive belt over the antenna and of course it snapped.
Instead, since the old original drive belt stretched over the antenna to come off, I thought I could stretch the new one over the antenna. Well, drive belt #1 arrived and I tried to replace this WITHOUT bringing the unit down to the deck and taking it all apart. So we called Raymarine support and they said that it is the drive belt, so we ordered another drive belt for $15.00. This presented an error message on the Chartplotter screen that would show up when you switched over to the radar, that error message said ANTENNA NOT ROTATING.
We have a Raymarine non digital 2002 unit that was repaired in 2006 by Raymarine and now this year 2015 the drive belt stopped spinning the radar.
