The Never Ending McMurdo Story
How important it is that your EPIRP works correctly is proven many times a year. This spring only, NOAA satellites were key in saving 54 lives in 27 potentially deadly situations throughout the United...
Monthly Archive: July 2004
World’s “Smallest” AIS Receiver
Don’t know whether that claim is actually true, but if you’re in the market for a small AIS (Automatic Identification System), I’ve written about them before, then have look at Jotron Electronics’ TR-2500 Universal...
The New Backbone Of Onboard Data Networking
In their own journal, NMEA is again promoting the NMEA 2000 standard. Not surprising of course, but just publishing these press-releases won’t do much good. Companies involved in developing this standard will have to...
Lots Of Electronics Does Not Equal Safety
Every now and then a story comes along which proves that without skills, electronics won’t do you a lot of good. Here’s another one (free subscription required). “Borgueta recalls how one day he helped...
Waterproof Entertainment…
Since so many of you are looking for waterproof MP3 players on this website, I thought it would be better to post the news about this new (cheap) product. It is a “four AA...
ARC Survey Results
Yachting World has published their ARC Survey results. So if you would like to know what equipment is being used by yachts in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers…. It’s sort of the ultimate field-test...
MAATS Impressions By YBW
Yachting and Boating World (YBW) comes away moderately impressed from MAATS (Marine Aftermarket Accessories Trade Show) and in their newsletter they mention some of the highlights. Besides the one I liked best, EchoPilot’s CASS...
Roaming While Cruising
Wireless Maritime Services, a joint venture of AT&T Wireless and MTN, is offering a roaming solution for GSM subscribers while cruising in international waters. I’ve written about similar solutions before, if you have a...
KVH’s Covert Alert System
New regulation has triggered KVH to highlight their integrated communication system that uses the Inmarsat mini-C communication system and real-time GPS position reporting to alert when in distress. Although they are using terrorist threats...
Power Management In The Volvo Ocean Race
With seven cameras and lots of wireless communication of video on board you can imagine that crew members in the Volvo Ocean Race are complaining about the energy it costs to power (and use)...
