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flapbreaker
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 878 City/Region: Hillsboro
State or Province: OR
C-Dory Year: 2006
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Vessel Name: Playin' Hooky
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: Raymarine adds sirius weather to c-series |
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Well I noticed that Raymarine is bringing the capability to get sirius weather for the C-series displays. It sounds like a great feature but sirius want's $29/month for the service. Seems kind of steep.
Also Raymarine is coming out with an AIS receiver. Might be handy for those that travel around shipping channels ect. |
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thataway
Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 20813 City/Region: Pensacola
State or Province: FL
C-Dory Year: 2007
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Vessel Name: thataway
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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I also got to play recently with a Sirius weather on a 12" plotter. It was impressive, but I would not buy it. I use my eyes, radar and radiio (both VHF and AM reciever)--the AM will give static from lightning, and you can time and see if it getting closer. The local VHF or television gives the general forcast. Visual will give storm fronts, rain, and lightning. Radar tracks storm cells. You cannot outrun the storms many times. All of the Sirius weather is available on the internet--if you have it available.
Where it might be a help, is when you don't have a TV or internet connection and want to cross an open body of water. It might help with storm cells. But we experimented tracking cells with radar vs the interntet doppler Radar, and with Radar we had adequate information.
I think that we will see much more use for AIS in the next few years. The most recent proclimation from CG commmander suggests that AIS will be required on more boats than currently (smaller commercial boats, fishing boats and larger yachts).[/b] _________________ Bob Austin
Thataway
Thataway (Ex Seaweed) 2007 25 C Dory May 2018 to Oct. 2021
Thisaway 2006 22' CDory November 2011 to May 2018
Caracal 18 140 Suzuki 2007 to present
Thataway TomCat 255 150 Suzukis June 2006 thru August 2011
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