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Forum: Marine Electronics 24-11-2017, 00:33
Replies: 29
Views: 3,140
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: UHF for High Fliers?

It is part of most company standard operating procedures to monitor 121.5.
Remember lots of PLB's transmit on this frequency and in my experience most pilots would report an active PLB to air...
Forum: Marine Electronics 24-10-2017, 14:21
Replies: 6
Views: 1,165
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: What is a Good Sat Phone External Antenna?

Got this one with my iridium go

https://www.ast.systems/unitedkingdom/products/product/iridium-ad510-1-passive-antenna/

When I tested it appeared to have the same signal strength as the...
Forum: Marine Electronics 11-10-2017, 00:13
Replies: 33
Views: 4,173
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: LMR-400

Just wondering if you have the software to switch your speech compression on.
My radio bought in 2015 would not work with CS802 v1 or 2 but after 2 years of trying to find it, I just called Icom uk...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 11-03-2017, 00:11
Replies: 10
Views: 1,663
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Tax domicilium on your yacht

Haiqu, I think you are confusing The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with Ireland, very different countries.
The UK is shortly to trigger article 50 which leads to leaving the...
Forum: Marine Electronics 23-02-2017, 06:06
Replies: 49
Views: 23,748
Posted By Abgreenbank
re: Raymarine EV 100 Tiller Pilot review

Are you saying you bought an autopilot for your boat, that raymarine suggests a max displacement of 6000kg, (typically a modern grip 34ft) and you are disappointed with its performance, and you are...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-02-2017, 12:58
Replies: 321
Views: 80,049
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Beneteau oceanis 55

Pogo had a boat at boot Düsseldorf , very nice.
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 26-11-2016, 02:14
Replies: 4
Views: 2,971
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Watermaker - Cat pump output

its not difficult to make your own but look at:

Cruise RO Water & Power: Watermakers for Boats & Yachts (https://www.cruiserowaterandpower.com/)

its difficult to make your own cheaper and Rich...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 25-11-2016, 16:05
Replies: 4
Views: 2,971
Posted By Abgreenbank
Watermaker - Cat pump output

Your pump is too small for 8 inch units and just adequate for a 4 inch membraine, you should get over 200 l/hour at 800psi, a 4 inch membraine can produce around 300l/ hour but don't think your pump...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 05-09-2016, 14:32
Replies: 14
Views: 3,899
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Sterling Alternator to Battery Charge Controllers?

Why would you run the engine/ alternator to charge the batteries if you had AC power available to your battery charger?
Am I missing something here.
However as a user of a Stirling alt to bat...
Forum: Marine Electronics 04-09-2016, 01:24
Replies: 290
Views: 28,737
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: AIS, Receiver or Transmitter

Great believer of AIS transponders, however one must not forget the limitations of the class B units. They have low powered (2w) transmitters so have a theoretical max range of 5 to 10 miles, whereas...
Forum: Marine Electronics 01-08-2016, 14:50
Replies: 43
Views: 14,915
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: AIS Fault Message

I have 2 cables and 2 antenna , one is a metz ais antenna the other I can't remember but a metal whip style. The co ax cables, one is rg213u and the other rg8, if I plug them in to my raymarine...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 31-05-2016, 14:04
Replies: 19
Views: 4,460
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Agip Super Diesel Multigrade for Yanmar?

If your buying oil in Europe, ACEA specs are simple, remember our trusty yanmars are old technology and don't like the newer synthetic oils for cars with dpf/cats etc. In fact it's not that easy to...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 31-05-2016, 13:39
Replies: 50
Views: 18,354
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Beneteau USA Factory Delivery Problems

Not sure about the USA factory but in France the production line moves quite quickly, the 40 to 50 ft line in cholet moves one boat width every 2 or 3 hours and the line is around 30 boats, so if...
Forum: Marine Electronics 30-05-2016, 16:27
Replies: 7
Views: 1,693
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Open WiFi with Bullet 2HP problem

Had a similar problem, updated the firmware and all sorted.

Regards

Ab


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Forum: Monohull Sailboats 30-05-2016, 16:21
Replies: 50
Views: 18,354
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: Beneteau USA Factory Delivery Problems

Is it not normal to do a factory visit to see the progress of construction, or was it not offered?

Regards

Ab


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Forum: Monohull Sailboats 22-05-2016, 13:03
Replies: 36
Views: 15,821
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: New Jeanneau 50DS issues and resolutions

I have a 2014 50DS, the jeanneau fix for the ceilings is additional screws into the wood ( with white plastic dome covers ) close to the invisible plastic clips.
I have had Jeanneau replace most of...
Forum: Marine Electronics 11-03-2016, 04:39
Replies: 1,056
Views: 241,746
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenPlotter project

My pi 3 won't boot with the v6 image, just shows full rainbow screen, had no problems loading noobs and then opencpn, I just thought it was because I was using a 1amp power supply, off to the boat...
Forum: Marine Electronics 08-03-2016, 06:33
Replies: 1,056
Views: 241,746
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenPlotter project

Oh forgot, I enabled the experimental open gl driver and ran Glx gears and had a nice steady 60 frames/sec, only 30 frames/sec without OpenGL driver, so looks reasonably good speed.

Ab


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Forum: Marine Electronics 08-03-2016, 06:28
Replies: 1,056
Views: 241,746
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenPlotter project

Not sure but there is a choice of adapter in the bluetoothctl menu, so can't see why not.
My pi2 and dongle and proper power supply is on the boat and I'm not, so can't check, however I certainly...
Forum: Marine Electronics 07-03-2016, 23:52
Replies: 1,056
Views: 241,746
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenPlotter project

For those of you that are waiting for your new pi3 , when you setup I found I could not pair a Bluetooth keyboard with the blueman gui bluetooth manager. So if you installed blueman, uninstall it and...
Forum: OpenCPN 05-03-2016, 02:49
Replies: 363
Views: 58,226
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenCPN on Raspberry Pi2

Yes I will install pi Bluetooth, seems strange it wasn't included on the latest noobs.

Ab


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Forum: OpenCPN 05-03-2016, 02:47
Replies: 363
Views: 58,226
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenCPN on Raspberry Pi2

Thanks Sailoog, I am just downloading v6 of your image but it could take a while, with my super slow broadband.


Ab


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Forum: OpenCPN 05-03-2016, 01:21
Replies: 363
Views: 58,226
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenCPN on Raspberry Pi2

Try
Hcitool scan

Found my phone




On my pi2 I basically used the instructions below, all nice and simple, maybe I still need to install the the:
Forum: OpenCPN 05-03-2016, 01:06
Replies: 363
Views: 58,226
Posted By Abgreenbank
Re: OpenCPN on Raspberry Pi2

It's the libwxgtk3.0-dev. Dependencies that I can't find on GitHub, same problem as others earlier in this thread

This doesn't work

sudo apt-get -y install cmake gettext \
gpsd gpsd-clients...
Forum: OpenCPN 05-03-2016, 00:47
Replies: 363
Views: 58,226
Posted By Abgreenbank
OpenCPN on Raspberry Pi2

Ok will give it a go, have you worked out how to setup or pair Bluetooth using the gui interface, the wifi setup was very easy.
It would be nice if a sonos app was available.
Must admit I just use...
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