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General Discussion » Iridium Go Exec » 5/18/2023 12:53 am

Crazypilot - yes I got it to work direct to expedition -- but I turned on internet access on the go - I turned it off quickly as that was when I started to get background data sucking everything -- the file size for expedition itself was fine as you can control that like the predict wind one but I have not mastered the turning everyhting off that uses data on the PC -- my android phone is easy but windows 10 running avg was not that easy - to be fair part of the problem was that I did keep swapping between using the Go and 4G to find things so it was not really a good test. I think once you were in offshore mode then it would be easier as you could live with evertying turned off -  what predict wind suggested was use their gribs and change the destination file and put into expedition whihc removes one step?  Obviously they have a large vested interest in getting this to work particularly know that Starlink to have woken up to people using their land based stuff on boats? 

As you can probably guess I am at the limit and probably beyond of my technical IT skills and pushing the boundaries. 
The people who sold our Go Exec kindly gave me 25mb and 5 mins voice for 2 days  to play with when I was setting up whihc was invaluable - particularly when you saw the data skiing away becuase you simply had not turned something off! 
We had an original go with an external aerial and to be fair it was really good. I sold it as we were not going to do anymore offshore races!!! But I was only downloading pwg 12 hour 3 day files when I was out of 3g /4g signal - I suspect one of the issues now is that there is so much more choice in terms of gribs and the increased speed of the exec probably makes it attractivce. 
If you are fitting it the external aerial has 2 bits of cable to the Go - the thin one needs a 360 loop inside the aerial -  watch how long you make it as you still need to equalise the ends at the Go. And the thin wire is not very robust. We pulled them down a dav

General Discussion » Iridium Go Exec » 5/14/2023 1:23 am

so far....
Go Exec - we are usibg for AZAB - UK to Azores and back  - qualifies as a sat phone under rules so we get sat phone and data --- well hopefuly !!!

We have the external aerial - the box is big and clunky - OK on a 40 foot not something I would want to carry up a hill!   Phone works fine and the faster speed than the Go means it is a relatively normal conversation. 


it works well with predict wind!!! It is fast eough to use the expedition weather data fields but am trying to get my head round data consumption that way 

if you have used a go then beware you have to turn evrything and anything off or else phones and PC suck data sneakily. Well suck is the wrong term -- gobble is correct 


 

Technical Q&A » error message and routing not completing » 5/11/2023 12:35 pm

mais oui --- the entente cordial is wobbly even in routeing -   proudman  
and SHOM do not play nicely together it appears

we have the SHOM tides in as well as Proudman channel we were doing an exciting qualifier for the azores and back race whihc mneant sail from Plymouth UK to France - turn round when you could smell the moules frites and run back and then reach to the Lizard and back 

Merci bien Nick


 

Technical Q&A » error message and routing not completing » 5/11/2023 5:53 am

AAH == now its doing it not on the boat -- error message is Hydro 32  and as above

I can run a simple optimise 
comes up when I try to run % polar 
 

Technical Q&A » error message and routing not completing » 5/11/2023 1:38 am

Hi

When I am running expedition on our boat - raymarine instruments and network using an actisense converter I am getting a error message and routeing is not completing

The only changes that have occured since we used expedition on board as far as I am aware 
uploading the latest version of expedition 
using expedition gribs not predict wind

The PC is operating on Windows 10 Pro - but this has not changed

The error message is

"Hydo 32 Problem with lat,lng calculations or data read - c" 

whihc means nothing to me!!

Look forward to any help available please?

Kind regards

Bruce
 

General Discussion » Starlink early adopters » 3/23/2023 10:56 am

Hi

Sounds great 

Have you done anything different when installing this or just whacked it on the roof etc ?

Do you get any shading etc when sailing 

I assume that you have not had to take a dremel out and operate on the new toy etc?

Look forward to your reply 

Kind regards

Bruce

General Discussion » Iridium Go Exec » 3/09/2023 10:59 am

Oh shit where did the expert on my title come from!!!!

Well I can string a route together.... but when Mr Field took control of our boat computer and made things fade and get coloured in 2 nanaseconds then like all things you see that there is real expertise and then general competence!
 


 

General Discussion » Iridium Go Exec » 3/09/2023 10:55 am

As this has now dropped -- I think that is modern parlance for it is available? 
Has anyone used or seen one?

There are a LOT of upset owners of the previous model on a face book post as nothing on the Exec is compatible with the new one ie you need a new aerial.

We will probably buy one as we can get data cards for a month which is fine for limited racing. And yes some of us still pay our own bills for data so sadly fleet broadband on constant on is a dream 

Look forward to the educated comments 

Kind regards

Bruce  
 

Questions about Expedition features » satellite phone » 5/05/2021 3:34 am

We have used an iridium go succesfully  - but from memory we copied the gribs and then loaded them into expedition - you could not just use the get weather button!  But maybe my nice shiny new version of expedition will do that? 

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