Having successfully installed one in an M802 I would like to know if anyone
here has one or a Bluetooth SCS modem. Seems the Bluetooth range is short.
Works great if you are close enough.

Dave

"Dave" wrote in
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Having successfully installed one in an M802 I would like to know if
anyone here has one or a Bluetooth SCS modem. Seems the Bluetooth
range is short. Works great if you are close enough.

Dave




Bluetooth range standard is 10 meters, but it's on 2400 Mhz so almost
anything blocks the signal, including your body which is unfortunate.

I use a Motorola S9 Bluetooth headset from a bluetooth netbook computer.
The headset receiver sits on the back of your neck. It's range suffers
when you're walking towards the computer, and you're head is absorbing the
signal.

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote in
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Having successfully installed one in an M802 I would like to know if
anyone here has one or a Bluetooth SCS modem. Seems the Bluetooth
range is short. Works great if you are close enough.

Dave

Bluetooth range standard is 10 meters, but it's on 2400 Mhz so almost
anything blocks the signal, including your body which is unfortunate.

Class 1 bluetooth range is 100 meters. And I get very good reports of people
using a MiniPlex-BT, a bluetooth enabled NMEA multiplexer. Even when sitting
on an outrigger of a tri, the datalink to the centre hull is solid.

Meindert

I've had good experiences substituting DB9-to-BT transmitters for
serial cables on my boat. They are very reliable within the cabin and
forward part of the cockpit carrying 9,6kbps binary data from an
Inmarsat mini-C terminal to the PC or 4,8k NEMA bus data.

Beyond 4m this system is unreliable since the BT-serial adapters I use
are not Class 1. But there are plenty "industrial-grade" serial cable
replacements in the market that, as Meindert remarked, reach well
beyond yacht confines.

On 31 mar, 22:31, "Dave" wrote:
Having successfully installed one in an M802 I would like to know if anyone
here has one or a Bluetooth SCS modem. Seems the Bluetooth range is short.
Works great if you are close enough.

Dave

"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
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Class 1 bluetooth range is 100 meters. And I get very good reports of
people using a MiniPlex-BT, a bluetooth enabled NMEA multiplexer. Even
when sitting on an outrigger of a tri, the datalink to the centre hull
is solid.

Meindert


.....but I bet Dave is talking about a CONSUMER Bluetooth device, not some
commercial system costing thousands.

Cisco makes fantastic routers and servers, too, but we're all running
CONSUMER equipment.....

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
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Class 1 bluetooth range is 100 meters. And I get very good reports of
people using a MiniPlex-BT, a bluetooth enabled NMEA multiplexer. Even
when sitting on an outrigger of a tri, the datalink to the centre hull
is solid.

Meindert


....but I bet Dave is talking about a CONSUMER Bluetooth device, not some
commercial system costing thousands.

Only EUR 285 retail....

Meindert

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Larry wrote:

"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
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Class 1 bluetooth range is 100 meters. And I get very good reports of
people using a MiniPlex-BT, a bluetooth enabled NMEA multiplexer. Even
when sitting on an outrigger of a tri, the datalink to the centre hull
is solid.

Meindert


....but I bet Dave is talking about a CONSUMER Bluetooth device, not some
commercial system costing thousands.

Cisco makes fantastic routers and servers, too, but we're all running
CONSUMER equipment.....

Well, not ALL of us are running consumer Gear.....

--
Bruce in alaska
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These guys carry BT solutions for all kinds of applications and
budgets:

http://www.aircable.net/

The one I reported on is the Serial3. I'm not affiliated with the
company, BTW.

Regards,
Fabrizio




....but I bet Dave is talking about a CONSUMER Bluetooth device, not some
commercial system costing thousands.

Cisco makes fantastic routers and servers, too, but we're all running
CONSUMER equipment.....