February 15, 2010 04:29
Hi
Please be kind if this has been covered before, but at the moment I just can't spend hours trolling through hundreds of posts hoping that I stumble across what I need.
I am a Canadian living in NZ, refitting a big cruising boat, with two kids under 4, a to do list a hundred miles long and a time line for our first 1000 mile passage that is getting shorter by the day. Here goes.
I have:
Iridium 9505 with serial adapter on the bottom
Passage Plus (free NZ charts)
MacBook OS X 10.5.8
Furuno GP 32 with data feed to MacBook that works!
Mac ENC (bought today)
Mac Wx ditto
500 prepaid minutes on Iridium
a serial USB adapter that works well with the GPS (ATEN UC 232A)
ICOM M802
Pactor II Pro
almost no usable time on my hands
no experience with or understanding of boot camp
much of this hardware came with the boat. They ran windoze, so i have a mitt full of useless Serial adapters etc and a bunch of other things that are no good to me or my mac or both
Questions:
what do i need to do in order to get the Iridium to talk to my macbook? what parts and pieces are required?
How important is it that i get XGate (more subscription $)?
how can i make this process easy (or easier)?
any help will be deeply appreciated.
thanks
scott
Please be kind if this has been covered before, but at the moment I just can't spend hours trolling through hundreds of posts hoping that I stumble across what I need.
I am a Canadian living in NZ, refitting a big cruising boat, with two kids under 4, a to do list a hundred miles long and a time line for our first 1000 mile passage that is getting shorter by the day. Here goes.
I have:
Iridium 9505 with serial adapter on the bottom
Passage Plus (free NZ charts)
MacBook OS X 10.5.8
Furuno GP 32 with data feed to MacBook that works!
Mac ENC (bought today)
Mac Wx ditto
500 prepaid minutes on Iridium
a serial USB adapter that works well with the GPS (ATEN UC 232A)
ICOM M802
Pactor II Pro
almost no usable time on my hands
no experience with or understanding of boot camp
much of this hardware came with the boat. They ran windoze, so i have a mitt full of useless Serial adapters etc and a bunch of other things that are no good to me or my mac or both
Questions:
what do i need to do in order to get the Iridium to talk to my macbook? what parts and pieces are required?
How important is it that i get XGate (more subscription $)?
how can i make this process easy (or easier)?
any help will be deeply appreciated.
thanks
scott