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Request more frequent from boat owners is for the installation of a WiFi reception onboard. The proliferation of computers, tablets and smartphones on boats incentive to maintain a connection with the Internet, even while sailing. Exchange emails, Follow social media, Receive weather files, and how many other reasons lead to an irrepressible addiction. C’est la vie !
I have already mentioned on my website, in chapter about means for receiving GRIB files, some available solutions : Read more …
In a previous entry I talked about NGW-1 by Actisense company (¹), an NMEA 0183 gateway converter to NMEA 2000 bidirectional.
Since then, This footbridge has been declined in several versions. Each of them allows you to connect to the NMEA network 2000 A range of special instruments, and so combine their data with other NMEA 2000 instruments already present on the network. This can be particularly interesting, in an installation mixing both protocols, to facilitate data transfers in iNavX. Read more …
I mentioned in two previous posts, on the one hand ADS-B equivalent to AIS for aeronautics, on the other hand, the future of satellite communications with the next constellation Iridium NEXT. Believe it or not, the NewScientist teaches us, In a recent article dated 14 December, that the Iridium NEXT satellites will carry ADS-B transmission devices. I give you below a freely adapted translation.
These two communication technologies combined will revolutionize air traffic in the next ten years. Read more …
Already two days past and the dream team was overwhelmed by a huge number of visitors. Don't let this photo fool you : it was taken yesterday evening after closing, whew, A little respite !
An expanded stand this year
On the program of presentations :
Come see us, iPadNav gives you great prices, you'll be able to see our iPads splashing around in the aquarium and our apps on the new iPad Mini, A must !
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With the version 1.3.2, Weather4D PRO allows to get and display currents as GRIB data. To begin with, currents available are provided with subscription by Tidetech, I mentioned there in the past (¹). Once entered in Weather4D PRO settings a username and password, provided at the time of subscription, you can access Tidetech global catalog.
Only one PRO subscription to Tidetech allows you to obtain files in GRIB format. The company is considering a specific offer for applications on iPad / iPhone. Read more …
In a post from 19 th 2011 I mentioned the announcement of an iPad waterproof case by the young company LifeProof. It took a year and a half to see the outcome of this case. We must understand that the rapid succession of iPad models, mainly the radical change in form between iPads 1 and 2, did not encourage this company to rush to launch the design of its first protection. Read more …
You dreamed of it since Weather4D Pro has featured its powerful routing module. He did it !
Our Toulousian crazy developer, Olivier Bouyssou, just sent Apple a new app : iPolar.
Developed in collaboration with — and on behalf of — KND SailingPerformance, iPolar calculates the performance polars of a sailboat based on specific parameters, Easy to identify : Read more …
Since version 3.6.1 iNavX provides overlay of GRIB weather files in high resolution from theyr.com. This English website owned by Kona Ltd company is the developer of the application GribView which I talked about in a previous post (¹). An active account on x-traverse.com must be open, and done subscription to one of the Theyr subscriptions.
Actually x-traverse.com website allows two subscriptions :
This book, Published by Editions La Découvrance in August, takes on its full meaning as the Vendée Globe occupies the sporting news. Whether you are a fan of ocean racing, Family ocean boater, Grandpa yachtman or single coastal boater, You must read this novel. Read more …
China launched its 16th satellite of its satellite positioning system BeiDou-2. Like all other Chinese satellites, it was put into orbit by their own rocket Long March 3.
It is the sixth satellite launched this year to complete the constellation of satellites that will make up the BeiDou-2 navigation network. Started in 2007, this network is the successor to the BeiDou-1 project launched in October 2000 and gradually made up of 4 Experimental satellites. Read more …