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Forum: Marine Electronics 03-03-2016, 22:41
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Posted By Paul Elliott
Re: Simple communications offshore

PACTOR IV may be faster, but in my experience Iridium is substantially faster than PACTOR III, and this is with uncompressable data. You need the proper software with Iridium (something like XGate)...
Forum: Marine Electronics 16-02-2016, 17:39
Replies: 24
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Posted By Paul Elliott
Re: Simple communications offshore

Anything with Iridium will work in the middle of the ocean, or anywhere else that you have a relatively unobstructed view of the sky. There are other satellite systems that only try to cover the...
Forum: Marine Electronics 16-02-2016, 09:05
Replies: 24
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Posted By Paul Elliott
Re: Simple communications offshore

On the California west coast, the cell coverage gets real spotty north of Santa Barbara. Much of the coast is quite rugged and the cell sites don't bother trying to cover the ocean. North of San...
Forum: Marine Electronics 11-02-2016, 18:57
Replies: 24
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Posted By Paul Elliott
Re: Simple communications offshore

I would say you can get quite useful data with a 10KB GRIB. However, I agree that trying to use short text messages for GRIBs is not practical.
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