AnyTrack? Not around here!
So the AnyTrack pitch is that the little GPS-100 above is “perfect” for locating stolen boats or vehicles, or tracking something or someone precious. The interesting technology involved is…
Monthly Archive: August 2007
Magellan Crossover, a so-so AIO PND so far
I’ve been intermittently testing this Magellan Crossover for months now, and the fact I haven’t mentioned it here is a sign of my ambiguous feelings about it. The proposition—an All-in-One (AIO) touch screen Personal Navigation Device (PND)—is really seductive…
Tacktick Micronet, part 2
I don’t think I’ll be offered a job in any department at Lyman-Morse any time soon, but check out how I turned a milk crate and some wood scraps into Annie G’s new electronics test station…
Raymarine ST70, looks hot!
Do these new ST70 instrument and autopilot displays (bigger here) look beautiful or what? The problem is…
Tacktick Micronet, part 1
I finally launched Annie G., my Rhodes 18 (named after me mum), and am getting pretty excited about the various Tacktick instruments I’ve installed…
“Lost Claws”, a homie
Maybe my favorite-named lobster boat ever, caught here in pristine just-relaunched condition, before she went to work in Penobscot Bay…
Distributed power, no bus, no code
This (bigger here) is one of the DC panels on Electra. What’s unusual is that its modern electronic breaker/switches do not connect to a bus and then to various microprocessor-loaded control panels, like, say, Moritz’s Octoplex. Instead…
Freestyle MP3 player, really waterproof
Man, there’s a lot of waterproof iPod cases, but if you’re really active in/on the water you might want to consider a dedicated, if limited, solution. The Freestyle waterproof MP3 flash player is waterproof to 10 feet, shockproof, and it floats…
Seetrac Solo, more tender tracking
Well, my entry on how Rendez-vous tender tracking uses AIS message conventions seems to have confused even some AIS savvy folks (sorry, Del). To be clear, Rendez-vous will not show up on anyone’s screen unless that screen is connected to a specific network of Rendez-vous radios. Rendez-vous just uses the AIS data structure so that plotting software does not have be modified to see the tenders in a network. Get it? I think it clever, but the folks who developed the Seetrac Tender Tracking systems aren’t so sure:
