Hurricane tracking, XM & more
Panbot Allan Seymour (thanks!) sent in this image of Hurricane Dean showing on his XM-enabled Garmin. It also happens to show the southern limit of XM’s cloud coverage coverage…
Category: Weather
HF weather broadcasts, & DMS, revisited
When I first mentioned the USCG’s need to replace its HF weather radios, I had a hard time getting into the Document Management System (DMS) where any us can make a comment or see other people’s comments…
Charts etc., we’ve just gotten started
Pardon a slightly meta sidetrack, but two bits of the massive media flow got my attention. One is a Wired article about Google Earth which in part makes the case that the future of cartography is user data…
Milt, from mid Atlantic
I’m way behind on the work, not to mention the gizmo preparation, that needs doing before Bermuda (Bill and Gram are about to finish 7th overall uncorrected, if not passed by a 42’ cat in the next hour), so I’m turning it over to Milt Baker. These snippets are from today’s noon report, filed from almost the midpoint of the Med Bound 2007 Bermuda-Azores leg:
Write the gov’ment, HF weather & AIS B
Two issues U.S. boaters might want to comment on: 1. Apparently the HF transmitters the USCG uses to send out offshore weather forecasts—voice, fax, etc.—need to be replaced and the government wants to know if it’s...
Garmin’s new XM Weather, first impression
I’ve got the new Garmin GXM 31 hooked up to the 545s, and am once again impressed with how deep this “product line refresh” really is. I’ve tested their XM weather on several devices over the years, and…
Garmin 545 videos, thanks Bluewaterpirate
I’ve been feeling mighty guilty about my oh-so-slow testing of the borrowed Garmin 545. So it was particularly great to find that a fisherman named Tom has posted a useful series of stills and videos illustrating many 545 features…
UGRIB, nicely done and priced right!
In Maine speak, that low pressure system which blasted through here last night was a “corker”, leaving at least 10” of snow which has a gluey consistency unfriendly to snow blowers and plows. Panbo world headquarters is still digging...
XM + Sirius, just when the live weather war heats up
It’s not every day that the New York Times puts a tech merger on the top of the front page, but amazingly the XM/Sirius merger, rumored for ages, never came up (around me) in Miami…despite...
Less expensive XM Weather, Navionics Gold+ too
EliBoat made a good catch last week, spotting this Bushnell ONIX400CR GPS and XM handheld. The specs, as spied out by the sat radio blog Orbitcast, look impressive—waterproof, 3.5” screen, XM weather & audio, aerial and...
