+x Simon Currin - 24 Nov 2024Sandy,I’ve been using Starlink since October’ ‘22 and it has worked flawlessly and continuously between Annapolis and Tahiti. It also worked well for OCC boats in the North West Passage this summer although I think it struggles beyond 80 degrees north.Simon+x Sandy.Herbert - 24 Nov 2024+x Simon Currin - 23 Nov 2024Sandy,From memory the IridiumGo only got launched in 2015 and overcame the expensive data issue by bringing with it an unlimited data subscription. It is still used but, as discussed in the PredictWind Webinar, it has been superseded by Starlink. We have retained ours as a tracking device and as an emergency Liferaft communicator but we only subscribe to the cheapest Iridium subscription to use it. Iridium brought out the successor to the IridiumGo a year ago called the Iridium Exec with a data speed of 20x the IridiumGo. Obviously, this is still much slower than Starlink and the hardware cost is approx 3x Starlink. It will be great when we have a device and network to compete with Starlink.Simon+x Sandy.Herbert - 23 Nov 2024+x Sandy.Herbert - 22 Nov 2024+x Simon Currin - 21 Nov 2024Sandy,No you do not import the Route into Windy. Use the Windy Hub App and it functions more like PredictWind.I have just recorded a webinar with PredictWind and will post the recording here tomorrow. It was more of a Q&A webinar.SimonThanks. I saw the webinar on the events list but I was too late to participateI just listened to the webinar. Thanks for that. Very good. Predictwind sounds like a good system but the voices of cruisers was music to my ears The Kiwis do some impressive stuff. I have a Vesper AIS. The help was brilliant though I haven't really needed much since I installed it. Sadly Vesper belongs to Garmin now. I was surprised to hear people were still using Iridium Gos I have an Iridium phone I used during my circumnavigation between 2012 and 2017. Very slow and expensive. Some people were getting Gos. I was interested but something happened around 2013, 2014. Iridium stopped supporting it or maybe you couldn't get the software for Windows but whatever, suppliers stopped selling them and I never got one. I thought they had died long ago.I must have got my wires crossed with the GO.Do you have enough experience with Starlink to comment on the coverage?
+x Sandy.Herbert - 24 Nov 2024+x Simon Currin - 23 Nov 2024Sandy,From memory the IridiumGo only got launched in 2015 and overcame the expensive data issue by bringing with it an unlimited data subscription. It is still used but, as discussed in the PredictWind Webinar, it has been superseded by Starlink. We have retained ours as a tracking device and as an emergency Liferaft communicator but we only subscribe to the cheapest Iridium subscription to use it. Iridium brought out the successor to the IridiumGo a year ago called the Iridium Exec with a data speed of 20x the IridiumGo. Obviously, this is still much slower than Starlink and the hardware cost is approx 3x Starlink. It will be great when we have a device and network to compete with Starlink.Simon+x Sandy.Herbert - 23 Nov 2024+x Sandy.Herbert - 22 Nov 2024+x Simon Currin - 21 Nov 2024Sandy,No you do not import the Route into Windy. Use the Windy Hub App and it functions more like PredictWind.I have just recorded a webinar with PredictWind and will post the recording here tomorrow. It was more of a Q&A webinar.SimonThanks. I saw the webinar on the events list but I was too late to participateI just listened to the webinar. Thanks for that. Very good. Predictwind sounds like a good system but the voices of cruisers was music to my ears The Kiwis do some impressive stuff. I have a Vesper AIS. The help was brilliant though I haven't really needed much since I installed it. Sadly Vesper belongs to Garmin now. I was surprised to hear people were still using Iridium Gos I have an Iridium phone I used during my circumnavigation between 2012 and 2017. Very slow and expensive. Some people were getting Gos. I was interested but something happened around 2013, 2014. Iridium stopped supporting it or maybe you couldn't get the software for Windows but whatever, suppliers stopped selling them and I never got one. I thought they had died long ago.I must have got my wires crossed with the GO.Do you have enough experience with Starlink to comment on the coverage?
+x Simon Currin - 23 Nov 2024Sandy,From memory the IridiumGo only got launched in 2015 and overcame the expensive data issue by bringing with it an unlimited data subscription. It is still used but, as discussed in the PredictWind Webinar, it has been superseded by Starlink. We have retained ours as a tracking device and as an emergency Liferaft communicator but we only subscribe to the cheapest Iridium subscription to use it. Iridium brought out the successor to the IridiumGo a year ago called the Iridium Exec with a data speed of 20x the IridiumGo. Obviously, this is still much slower than Starlink and the hardware cost is approx 3x Starlink. It will be great when we have a device and network to compete with Starlink.Simon+x Sandy.Herbert - 23 Nov 2024+x Sandy.Herbert - 22 Nov 2024+x Simon Currin - 21 Nov 2024Sandy,No you do not import the Route into Windy. Use the Windy Hub App and it functions more like PredictWind.I have just recorded a webinar with PredictWind and will post the recording here tomorrow. It was more of a Q&A webinar.SimonThanks. I saw the webinar on the events list but I was too late to participateI just listened to the webinar. Thanks for that. Very good. Predictwind sounds like a good system but the voices of cruisers was music to my ears The Kiwis do some impressive stuff. I have a Vesper AIS. The help was brilliant though I haven't really needed much since I installed it. Sadly Vesper belongs to Garmin now. I was surprised to hear people were still using Iridium Gos I have an Iridium phone I used during my circumnavigation between 2012 and 2017. Very slow and expensive. Some people were getting Gos. I was interested but something happened around 2013, 2014. Iridium stopped supporting it or maybe you couldn't get the software for Windows but whatever, suppliers stopped selling them and I never got one. I thought they had died long ago.
+x Sandy.Herbert - 23 Nov 2024+x Sandy.Herbert - 22 Nov 2024+x Simon Currin - 21 Nov 2024Sandy,No you do not import the Route into Windy. Use the Windy Hub App and it functions more like PredictWind.I have just recorded a webinar with PredictWind and will post the recording here tomorrow. It was more of a Q&A webinar.SimonThanks. I saw the webinar on the events list but I was too late to participateI just listened to the webinar. Thanks for that. Very good. Predictwind sounds like a good system but the voices of cruisers was music to my ears The Kiwis do some impressive stuff. I have a Vesper AIS. The help was brilliant though I haven't really needed much since I installed it. Sadly Vesper belongs to Garmin now. I was surprised to hear people were still using Iridium Gos I have an Iridium phone I used during my circumnavigation between 2012 and 2017. Very slow and expensive. Some people were getting Gos. I was interested but something happened around 2013, 2014. Iridium stopped supporting it or maybe you couldn't get the software for Windows but whatever, suppliers stopped selling them and I never got one. I thought they had died long ago.
+x Sandy.Herbert - 22 Nov 2024+x Simon Currin - 21 Nov 2024Sandy,No you do not import the Route into Windy. Use the Windy Hub App and it functions more like PredictWind.I have just recorded a webinar with PredictWind and will post the recording here tomorrow. It was more of a Q&A webinar.SimonThanks. I saw the webinar on the events list but I was too late to participate
+x Simon Currin - 21 Nov 2024Sandy,No you do not import the Route into Windy. Use the Windy Hub App and it functions more like PredictWind.I have just recorded a webinar with PredictWind and will post the recording here tomorrow. It was more of a Q&A webinar.Simon