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Armond Perretta Armond Perretta is offline
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Default Software for Wind Direction

Daniele Fua wrote:
Armond Perretta ha scritto:
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.


Armond,
nice to meet you again. Did you succeed in fixing your Navico remote
control?

Daniel


Still fussing.


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