Magellan GPS - Software for Wind Direction

Author

Software for Wind Direction

Oliver Fleming

2007-11-26, 10:33 pm

Hi,
I have GPS with SOG and Direction.

I have a wind meter showing wind speed and direction (apparent).

I have a laptop

All I need now is software to feed in the GPS data and the Wind data.
The information I want out is the true wind speed and direction.

Anything like this out there?

Thanks
Oliver Fleming

Jack Erbes

2007-11-27, 7:33 am

Oliver Fleming wrote:
> Hi,
> I have GPS with SOG and Direction.
>
> I have a wind meter showing wind speed and direction (apparent).
>
> I have a laptop
>
> All I need now is software to feed in the GPS data and the Wind data.
> The information I want out is the true wind speed and direction.
>
> Anything like this out there?
>

I've not actually used it for the things you mention but I've noticed
that the trial version of Coastal Explorer offers the display of that
data (and many others too) when in the Navigation Console mode. You can
get more info and a link for a download of the trial version here:

http://coastalexplorer.net/

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

Armond Perretta

2007-11-30, 10:33 am

Oliver Fleming wrote:
>
> I have GPS with SOG and Direction ... I have a wind meter showing wind
> speed and direction (apparent) ... I have a laptop ... All I need now is
> software to feed in the GPS data and the Wind data ...

Not quite. You must have a wind transducer that outputs NMEA data, or
something like SeaTalk, etc. Then you can use a Norland or similar
multiplexer to feed the data for calculation and display.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare

Jack Erbes

2007-12-01, 7:33 am

Armond Perretta wrote:
> Oliver Fleming wrote:
>
> Not quite. You must have a wind transducer that outputs NMEA data, or
> something like SeaTalk, etc. Then you can use a Norland or similar
> multiplexer to feed the data for calculation and display.

Yeah, I kind of assumed that Oliver had NMEA outputs from the wind meter
he mentioned. But maybe not.

It is a jungle of sorts to figure it all out, what with NMEA and then
all the proprietary flavors of NMEA data from a bunch of different
brands of instruments.

Then you got all your different flavors of of Ethernet (Seatalk, Navnet,
etc.) to deal with.

Me, I'd probably start by rubbing it with money and getting one of
Meindert's multiplexers to eliminate the first layer of confusion. :> )

Then I could start dealing with the NMEA data...

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

Syd

2007-12-04, 10:33 pm

Try http://www.digiboat.com.au/ for SOB ---- 3 months FREE trial

SOB is a PC-based navigation program which, when loaded with C-MAP charts
and connected to a GPS gives real-time on-screen chart positioning and
details such as speed and heading.

Enable additional features and functionality by connecting other on-board
NMEA instruments ...ie: AIS receiver, Autopilot, LOG, Sounder, Radar and
Wind Instruments.

DigiBOAT Pty Ltd provides this for Windows users as Software-On-Board (SOB).
SOB is free of charge for a 3 month (90 days) trial period, and thereafter
reverting to a free LITE version or pay only USD60 for the Standard Licensed
version, or USD185 for the Pro License.

Good luck

"Jack Erbes" <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:47515f21$0$1534
6$4c368faf@roadrunne
r.com...
> Armond Perretta wrote:
>
> Yeah, I kind of assumed that Oliver had NMEA outputs from the wind meter
> he mentioned. But maybe not.
>
> It is a jungle of sorts to figure it all out, what with NMEA and then
> all the proprietary flavors of NMEA data from a bunch of different
> brands of instruments.
>
> Then you got all your different flavors of of Ethernet (Seatalk, Navnet,
> etc.) to deal with.
>
> Me, I'd probably start by rubbing it with money and getting one of
> Meindert's multiplexers to eliminate the first layer of confusion. :> )
>
> Then I could start dealing with the NMEA data...
>
> Jack
>
> --
> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

LinkBot