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Just changed from PC to mac and wondering if my Egeport USB to serial adaptor will still work? I need this for my Iridium phone and also an old Garmin GPS.

Richard.

Hello to all,

Has anyone been able to get a Microsoft/Pharos 360 usb GPS to work in Polar Navy on a mac running Snow Leopard? If so, what driver and settings are being used.

Thanks,
Flash Gordon

My original MacBook Air has broken. I am thinking of buying a replacement.

Would you go for the basic new Air (11" screen) or a base Pro (13.3" screen)?

Or is the iPad the way forward?

Andy

When an ENC is first issued the filename looks like this: EA200001.000 (with .000 at the end).

As it is updated the suffix is incremented so it look like this: EA200001.026 (for example).

My question: Can we trash the old files when an ENC is updated? I think I tried it once and ran into trouble. Is the .000 file necessary? I assume the intermediate files (.001, .002, .003, etc) can be discarded. Is that right?

With your participation, I hope posts to this forum will expand to all subjects related to keeping a log book!whether that be with BoatLogix, another software application, or a hard cover book.

Well, it's finally officially out. After a long while ver. 1.5 is now available for download.

To avoid repeating myself, here is the link to changelog entry: http://polarnavy.wordpress.com/2011/02/1...arcom-1-5/

Here is the "official announcement": http://polarnavy.wordpress.com/2011/02/1...-5-is-out/

As usual, download is available here: http://www.polarnavy.com/main/download

A celestial calculator, plotter and a nautical almanac.
I have found the author to very helpful/responsive.
Great Stuff!!
Material below copied from the website:

StarPilot: http://www.starpilotllc.com/products/spip.htm
StarPilot does celestial sight reductions of all bodies using high-precision internal almanac, plus mathematical and graphic solutions for position fixes, great circle, rhumb line, traverse and composite sailings, all current problems, piloting solutions, and much more...including lunar distance method of finding GMT from the sky and a unique graphical Sight Planner, and the new Sight Analyzer function that helps you get the most accurate results from a series of sights.

iNA: , http://www.starpilotllc.com/products/iNA.htm
NA computes all ephemeris data available in the daily pages of the USNO Nautical Almanac. This information is required when doing astronomical computations for celestial navigation, local noon, sunrise, and others. The program computes GHA, Dec, SHA, SD, HP, magnitudes, sunrise, sunset, LAN, twilight times, moonrise, moonset, moon age and phase for sun, moon, 5 planets, and 173 stars. INA also computes additional useful information not included in the Nautical Almanac such as ephemeris for Mercury, Hc at LAN, bearing of sunrise and sunset (amplitudes), and the GHA of Aries midway between civil and nautical twilights for star planning.

Developed by Luis Soltero, the founder of Global Marine Networks, LLC which develops and delivers wireless data services to users in remote locations via satellite technology. Innovative products such as XGate, OCENS.Mail and WeatherNet have already set new industry standards for providing reliable, fast data services such as compression based email, weather on demand, and vessel tracking for ships world wide.

The Polar teams efforts seem to be paying off. Check out this very complementary review.

=> Link to PANBO review of POLAR <=

MacENC can process received N2K data. In order to interface the Mac to the N2K network:

1) The Actisense NGT-1 is connected to the N2K backbone and the USB port of the Mac.

2) The FTDI driver (Mac OS X USB Driver) is downloaded AND installed..

http://www.gpsnavx.com/downloads/FTDIUSB...Driver.dmg

Restart Mac

3) Connect the Actisense NGT-1 to a USB port on the Mac.

4) RE-Start MacENC.

5) Open the GPS panel by selecting "Connect" on the "GPS" menu.

6) Select the "Settings" button to open the Settings drawer.

7) Select Port as USBSerial-XXX.

8) Select Rate as 115200.

9) Select Type as Actisense NGT-1.

11) Open the Instruments panel by selecting "Connect" on the "Instruments" menu.

12) Select the "Settings" button to open the Settings drawer.

13) Check "Use GPS Port".

14) Open the "AIS/RADAR panel by selecting "Connect" on the "AIS/RADAR" menu.

15) Select the "Settings" button to open the Settings drawer.

16) Check "Use GPS Port".

17) The Instruments and AIS/RADAR panel need not be left open.


MacENC can process the following N2K PGNs ..

http://www.gpsnavx.com/html/nmea.html#N2K

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