Troubleshooting Radio Frequency Interference
So when you’re list of on board electronics and gadgets looks like a summary of this website, how do you make sure interference won’t be spoiling the party? Well, start by reading John Payne’s...
Category: Wireless & Apps
Storm Hawk from WeatherData
A new solution from WeatherData for those of you who prefer to sail the coastal waters, since it won’t work if you are to far away from land… Apparently they have some special marine...
Boats & Wi-Fi: ‘Warboating’
A quite funny quote from a Netstumbler forum thread shows very well that the combination of Wi-Fi and boating is still in the early adopter stage, and that ‘wardriving’ has its equivalent at sea…....
Wireless TV On Board
Nowadays wireless LCD TVs still have a few disadvantages, but on a boat they could provide more flexibility when it comes to entertainment. Plug all your video sources (DVD, STB, aerial) in the base...
Uniden’s VHF/GPS Mapping Marine Radio
Great to see that more and more marine electronics and communications functions are being integrated. Not only on a hardware level, but definitely also on a software level. What I really like about Uniden’s...
Outdoor wireless and omnidirectional antennas
Carl, who told me to about wireless anchoring solution, also pointed at eDigitalWireless, a company selling several outdoor wireless solutions. Amongst which the new SureShot, a 200mW NEMA 4X rated, ruggedized, weatherproof 2.4gHz radio...
A Complete Wireless Anchoring Experience
A couple of weeks a go I mentioned Ascend Marine’s Deep Blue Marine’s Anchor Alert, a wireless anchor monitoring system. To make the anchoring experience completely wireless (except for the anchor chain…), I got...
Rugged Cellphones
When I was going through the log-files of this website I noticed that many people come here searching for rugged cellphones. Fortunately, Siemens unveiled the ruggedised M65 this week. Not sure if it’s really...
Mainstream Rugged Notebooks And Tablet PCs
It’s not because the are the best or the first, but the news that HP has introduced a rugged notebook (nr3600) and a rugged Tablet PC (tr3000) shows that these types of computers are...
Automatic Packet/Position Reporting System
Tony Gutierrez pointed me at APRS, an Automatic Packet/Position Reporting System. ARPS is a real-time tactical digital communicatons protocol for exchanging information between a large number of stations covering a large (local) area. As...
