cheapest way to get weather files offshore?

[mikade]

You may check out this option:

https://github.com/tabeaeggler/Marin...ch-Transmitter


"This tool enables sailors to fetch crucial GRIB weather files via messages over the Garmin inReach Satellite device while out on open seas without internet connection. "



Michael

[Franziska]

Originally Posted by mikade

You may check out this option:

https://github.com/tabeaeggler/Marin...ch-Transmitter


"This tool enables sailors to fetch crucial GRIB weather files via messages over the Garmin inReach Satellite device while out on open seas without internet connection. "



Michael

Awesome. Not super simple, but also not to complicated to learn it as it seems.

[Phil_Fr17]

I use Zygrib, they send an email, very small, then I use datas in OpenCPN

[MWGDVC]

FLDIGI program and a sw/ssb portable receiver. Plug the radio earphone into the mic jack on computer. About a $100 investment, if you have a computer.
See Tarka's tutorial here.

https://youtu.be/DgL2bpBpvTc?si=tvaRWITqE-lgBBWp