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Forum: Marine Industry Vendors 05-30-2017, 08:26 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,611
Posted By timtwickham
Going live on Kickstarter

It's going live on Kickstarter tomorrow (31st) at 0800PDT / 1100EDT / 1600BST.
There will be a limited number of devices for just £50/€57/$65 each.
A link to the Kickstarter page will be on NMEA...
Forum: Marine Industry Vendors 05-13-2017, 06:17 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,611
Posted By timtwickham
NMEA to Wi-Fi device on Kickstarter

People may be interested in a new, low cost NMEA0183 to Wi-Fi device coming up as a Kickstarter project.
Have a look at www.nmeatools.com (https://www.nmeatools.com) for more info.
Tim
Forum: General Cruising Forum 07-02-2014, 12:54 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,010
Posted By timtwickham
Help create better charts with TeamSurv

TeamSurv, the community crowd sourced charts project, is on a recruiting drive for more participants.
Whilst we always welcome boats from wherever they are, we are particularly interested in the...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 03-21-2011, 01:14 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 7,351
Posted By timtwickham
On the subject of chart errors and accuracy, some...

On the subject of chart errors and accuracy, some of you may be interested in the TeamSurv project (www.teamsurv.com).

This is a crowd sourcing project to create more up to date and accurate...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 08-09-2010, 11:36 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,953
Posted By timtwickham
Stephen, Apologies for the tardy reply, but...

Stephen,

Apologies for the tardy reply, but answers below:

>1. Who gets the information? It looks like this is stored by TeamSurv for future use in their chart production. Am I right or will...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 06-25-2010, 11:45 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,953
Posted By timtwickham
TeamSurv is a project to help create better...

TeamSurv is a project to help create better charts of coastal waters, by getting sailors to log GPS and depth data - see www.teamsurv.eu (https://www.teamsurv.eu) for more information. For example, in...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 04-03-2010, 01:13 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,436
Posted By timtwickham
Actually the Russian GLONASS system has enough...

Actually the Russian GLONASS system has enough satellites up to be considered operational - and funcctiuonality to support this system is being put into the next generation of GNSS chipsets.

With...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 01-21-2010, 08:17 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 20,843
Posted By timtwickham
On the basis of keeping things as simple to learn...

On the basis of keeping things as simple to learn as possible, you could have a look at one of the software packages for doing your sextant calcs, such as WinAstro (www.winastro.co.uk...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 09-18-2009, 09:39 AM
Replies: 50
Views: 10,416
Posted By timtwickham
Whilst it is true that many of the HOs do a lot...

Whilst it is true that many of the HOs do a lot of work keeping their charts up to date, it is also true that many also concentrate on the needs of commercial shipping and other commercial activities...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 08-10-2009, 10:29 AM
Replies: 50
Views: 10,416
Posted By timtwickham
Actually Galileo won't be working till 2012/13,...

Actually Galileo won't be working till 2012/13, assuming no further delays in the program.

GLONASS is being upgraded and, although still a few satellites short, gives pretty good coverage....
Forum: Power & Electronics 07-15-2009, 12:37 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,570
Posted By timtwickham
You can see Navtex schedules, times and...

You can see Navtex schedules, times and frequencies for the area on the PC Navtex web site (https://www.pcnavtex.com/AboutNAVTEX/NAVTEXStations/NAVAREAXI/tabid/76/Default.aspx).

I wouldn't use an...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 07-15-2009, 11:02 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,284
Posted By timtwickham
Forget a waypoint every 24 hours - unless you are...

Forget a waypoint every 24 hours - unless you are a powerboat you'll never follow them.

As previously said, for a sailboat the most important thing is to look at the prevailing winds, and to a...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 07-15-2009, 10:57 AM
Replies: 50
Views: 10,416
Posted By timtwickham
GPS is the primary means of navigation, and in...

GPS is the primary means of navigation, and in the next few years we will see the whole area of GNSS expand with the addition of a revived GLONASS system (20 of the requisite 26 satellites currently...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 07-15-2009, 10:52 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 42,491
Posted By timtwickham
The biggest difference with sextants is whether...

The biggest difference with sextants is whether they are plastic or metal.

The plastic ones deform quite a lot with changing temperature, so you will probably want to check the index error as you...
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