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Picture of new comm center aboard Claire's Navie
A huge thunderstorm aborted my attempt to get the HF SSB running
aboard my buddy Geoffrey's Amel Sharpi ketch today. I hope to have it on-the-air tomorrow morning. I don't do well fooling with insulated backstay antennas in major thunderstorms in the marina. It's a survival thingy. Have a look at the picture I took with a tiny $89 Logitech Pocket Digital camera that's a tiny bit bigger than a credit card, 2/10th of an inch thick and weighs 1.2 oz including its sealed-in rechargeable lithium-polymer battery. I'm amazed this tiny camera would take the picture down in the cabin like this. To charge it and get the pictures out, all you do is plug it into the USB port on your computer and the driver software does the rest. Takes 53 pictures on its 16MB unexpandable memory.... The picture is posted to the dead newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean where rec.boaters SHOULD be posting all kinds of nice pictures of their boats, projects, exotic places and other points of interest. Got digital pictures to share? POST 'EM THERE! Radios from L to R are.... Icom M802 HF SSB to Icom AT-140 antenna tuner...... Icom M602 VHF/DSC with Icom Remote Commander at helm.... (both radios fully GMDSS/DSC equipped from Garmin GPS, Raymarine WAAS/GPS or The Cap'n running on a big Dell notebook computer. Icom M59 VHF/DSC backup radio we inherited with the Amel Sharpi ketch. Other equipment being installed is a B&G Pilot H1000 autopilot with electric actuator driving rudder directly, Raymarine SL72C color radar/chart plotter with new Raymarine WAAS/GPS, Raymarine Gyro Plus and new Raymarine self-calibrating Fluxgate sensor, Garmin 185 backup GPS with sounder brought over from the owner's last Endeavour 35 sloop, Yeoman paper chart plotter mounted to underside of that chart table top covered with my tools in the picture, integrate the existing B&G Wind, Speed, Depth and Data instruments to both the autopilot via B&G's NMEA interface and the NMEA multiplexer on the network, new Shakespeare 1/2 wave VHF on mainmast top..... Plenty of work to keep me off the streets for a while....(c; Larry W4CSC 3rd Mate Engineering S/V "Claire's Navie" (To make the M802 transmit on any freq, including the ham bands, press: MODE + 2 + TX until it beeps twice....(c See my other post for some interesting observations on Icom's saving a few bucks on such an expensive HF radio I think boaters should be aware of.....dammit! Larry Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe. You can tell because they never tried to contact us. |
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