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    6/27/2022 6:57 am  #1

    craigp
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    Bring in Yellow Brick Tracking text files.

    One more quirk I had on the Bermuda Race: 

    I setup an email account to receive updates for YB tracking while on satellite.  I did not have any luck having them come in to Expedition. How do I get it to look for a new file? 
    It did work occasionally via Predict Wind Offshore, if I could stay connected long enough to pull it down... 
     

     

    6/27/2022 9:21 am  #2

    Ernie M
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    Re: Bring in Yellow Brick Tracking text files.

    see discussion under Quick Guides section

     

    7/08/2022 10:37 am  #3

    jbranson
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    Re: Bring in Yellow Brick Tracking text files.

    I had issues bringing YB in over Iridium Go during the Annapolis to Bermuda as well. I ended up relying on Predict Wind instead.  It would be good to know when Expedition can't communicate with the YB server over satellite.

    Also, is there a way to bring the YB data into Expedition after the race. I am doing post-race analysis and it would be great to see other boats' routes against ours in Expedition.
     

     

    7/08/2022 12:46 pm  #4

    Nick
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    Re: Bring in Yellow Brick Tracking text files.

    Odd. I just had an email saying how great it was for YB!

    The main thing with Go is a well sited external antenna.

    You can manually bring them in, but the easiest way is to download them again. Select JSON as the type and a sufficiently large number of positions

     

    7/11/2022 8:08 am  #5

    jbranson
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    Re: Bring in Yellow Brick Tracking text files.

    Thanks Nick, I was able to download the full set of data over my Internet connection. The issue I had during the race may have been something to do with my Iridium Go. I got an error message saying it couldn't resolve the URL. In any case, using the JSON setting worked for my post-race analysis.

     

     

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