January 28, 2011 18:56
Nice to read that someone knowledgable in wireless comm is looking to share info. Wish I had intelligent questions and not just a desire to understand more. I am a OSX and IOS fan and user and am even working on learning IOS development but it is a long steep uphill slog for me on that. .... Except for iNavX and AyeTides and Starpilot on IOS, .... and GribView on OSX I tend to do most digital nav stuff on windows XP either w/ parallels on the macbook or on an ASUS 1000HE netbook w/ 12VDC output from pwr brick. (1) Coastal Explorer ( I am a beta geek for them) does lots of handy stuff and uses raster and vector chart (with auto updates from NOAA) and does coast pilots and sailing directions and also the Active Captain database, and Brazil has made it's raster charts available. (2) OpenCPN (OSX version is not up to speed yet) to use some of the CM93 world charts. (3) Visual Passage Planner that utilizes pilot chart data for wind, current, gale%, temp, etc and the boats polars to estimate trip performance. (4) uGRIB and viewFax for Wx data stuff, (5) Assorted tide programs, (6) Assorted celestial, astronomical progs... (6) interesting free prog NAVMONPC.
I am very excited about the potential to using ourPhones and iPad as remote displays. All it takes is a freezer weight ziplock bag the IOS unit is darn near IPX 6 waterproof. ..... The whole thing with peer-to-peer networking and/or the need for wifi ?router? has my head spinning.
Big fan of using paper charts !!
I am very excited about the potential to using ourPhones and iPad as remote displays. All it takes is a freezer weight ziplock bag the IOS unit is darn near IPX 6 waterproof. ..... The whole thing with peer-to-peer networking and/or the need for wifi ?router? has my head spinning.
Big fan of using paper charts !!