September 20, 2009 09:45
Just came off a 9 day cruise in PNW waters on my Islander 28 sailboat.
I have a set of Autohelm ST-50 instruments. Autopilot head is acting up and will get sent back to Raymarine soon.
My "old" Garmin GPS48 has been having weird initialization errors, has to "autolocate" fairly often, I think maybe there's a ROM battery that's dead or something. I really like it, as it's small, accurate, and has a sudo-plotter that at least shows me my relationship to my course as well as major marine markers. Totally waterproof, I have it mounted on the binacle. So I'll probably have it updated as well.
I have iNavx on my phone, and will upgrade to MacENC so that I can get a more accurate plot from the MacBook.
But I would like to be able to see my MacGPS/MacBook closer to the cockpit, and or just not have it tied down to the serial cable to the GPS. This winter I will probably also add an AIS system, and would like to tie the system together.
I was wondering about a Bluetooth GPS and/or a Bluetooth multiplexer to tie into my instruments? Need something small and low-cost, This isn't the Queen Mary, I need to keep it simple.
Jack
I have a set of Autohelm ST-50 instruments. Autopilot head is acting up and will get sent back to Raymarine soon.
My "old" Garmin GPS48 has been having weird initialization errors, has to "autolocate" fairly often, I think maybe there's a ROM battery that's dead or something. I really like it, as it's small, accurate, and has a sudo-plotter that at least shows me my relationship to my course as well as major marine markers. Totally waterproof, I have it mounted on the binacle. So I'll probably have it updated as well.
I have iNavx on my phone, and will upgrade to MacENC so that I can get a more accurate plot from the MacBook.
But I would like to be able to see my MacGPS/MacBook closer to the cockpit, and or just not have it tied down to the serial cable to the GPS. This winter I will probably also add an AIS system, and would like to tie the system together.
I was wondering about a Bluetooth GPS and/or a Bluetooth multiplexer to tie into my instruments? Need something small and low-cost, This isn't the Queen Mary, I need to keep it simple.
Jack