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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
"Ken Heaton" wrote in message ... I may be misunderstanding you Steve but if you are asking what the joke is it goes something like this: Also " Where the F**k are we" F.U.G.A.W.I... |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
"Ken Heaton" wrote in message ... I may be misunderstanding you Steve but if you are asking what the joke is it goes something like this: Also " Where the F**k are we" F.U.G.A.W.I... |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
I may be misunderstanding you Steve but if you are asking what the joke is
it goes something like this: Have you heard about the Fugawi tribe recently discovered by anthropologists in Africa? Apparently they are a tribe of Pigmies that live in the grasslands of the central plains. They are on average about 4' tall and live in a region where the grass grows about 6' tall. We call them the Fugawi because they are always going around saying, (wait for it) "We're the Fugawi, we're the Fugawi." ;-) Happy New Year! -- Ken Heaton & Anne Tobin Cape Breton Island, Canada kenheaton AT syd DOT eastlink DOT ca "Steve" wrote in message news  FUGAWI, but you have to respect people who name their product after a bad joke. I appreciate all of your comments Wiley, but please expand on the above 'snipe'.. Steve s/v Good Intentions |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:48:18 -0800, "Steve" wrote:
FUGAWI, but you have to respect people who name their product after a bad joke. I appreciate all of your comments Wiley, but please expand on the above 'snipe'.. Steve s/v Good Intentions Steve - I see you already have the answer. I didn't mean that as a snipe; I truly like the attitude it shows. A slightly different version of the joke refers to the Fukarya tribe.  Another poster recommended Maptech. I like it, but I doubt that anyone who has a beef with the resource requirements of CAPN will like Maptech much better. I was never satisfied with it till I upgraded to an 850 mhz cpu with 256MB. The official recommendation of "Pentium class cpu and 64MB" is absurd. Nice functionality though. It's what I run when I want to use the photos and topo maps from their chartkits. The configurability of Offshore Navigator is superb. The current version seems reliable enough, though I had a lot of trouble with older versions. You can use any charts you like, as long as MapTech made them. As for OziExplorer support, I doubt that you could find many people to complain about it. The author has an excellent record of fixing user problems and adding requested features. Also, there is an excellent Ozi mailist on Yahoo that generally turns around answers to questions in a few hours. I licensed the program in 1998 and I really haven't had any reliability problems since that first year. Also, even with all the new features that have been added, there has never been an upgrade fee. Which is not to say the program is perfect. The real problem with Ozi from my point of view is that it was originally built for hikers and off-roaders and has grown more by accretion than by design. The feature set and interface are not ideal from our point of view. Given the option, I'd try hard to wait and see how ENC support shakes out before choosing. I have the feeling that most of the vendors are trying to figure out how to make those free charts more expensive than the ones we have now. If I planned on going places where BSB chart coverage is spotty or insanely expensive (and I do), Ozi or Fugawi would be aboard regardless of what else I was using. __________________________________________________ __________ Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious. Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/ |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
The only beef I have woth Capn is that the port used for GPS in
and autopilot out must be the same. Does OZI allow different ports be specified for in and out? Doug s/v Callista "Glen "Wiley" Wilson" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:48:18 -0800, "Steve" wrote: FUGAWI, but you have to respect people who name their product after a bad joke. I appreciate all of your comments Wiley, but please expand on the above 'snipe'.. Steve s/v Good Intentions Steve - I see you already have the answer. I didn't mean that as a snipe; I truly like the attitude it shows. A slightly different version of the joke refers to the Fukarya tribe. Another poster recommended Maptech. I like it, but I doubt that anyone who has a beef with the resource requirements of CAPN will like Maptech much better. I was never satisfied with it till I upgraded to an 850 mhz cpu with 256MB. The official recommendation of "Pentium class cpu and 64MB" is absurd. Nice functionality though. It's what I run when I want to use the photos and topo maps from their chartkits. The configurability of Offshore Navigator is superb. The current version seems reliable enough, though I had a lot of trouble with older versions. You can use any charts you like, as long as MapTech made them. As for OziExplorer support, I doubt that you could find many people to complain about it. The author has an excellent record of fixing user problems and adding requested features. Also, there is an excellent Ozi mailist on Yahoo that generally turns around answers to questions in a few hours. I licensed the program in 1998 and I really haven't had any reliability problems since that first year. Also, even with all the new features that have been added, there has never been an upgrade fee. Which is not to say the program is perfect. The real problem with Ozi from my point of view is that it was originally built for hikers and off-roaders and has grown more by accretion than by design. The feature set and interface are not ideal from our point of view. Given the option, I'd try hard to wait and see how ENC support shakes out before choosing. I have the feeling that most of the vendors are trying to figure out how to make those free charts more expensive than the ones we have now. If I planned on going places where BSB chart coverage is spotty or insanely expensive (and I do), Ozi or Fugawi would be aboard regardless of what else I was using. __________________________________________________ __________ Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious. Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/ |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:36:38 -0500, "Doug Dotson"
wrote: The only beef I have woth Capn is that the port used for GPS in and autopilot out must be the same. Does OZI allow different ports be specified for in and out? Yes, it does allow this. I haven't done much testing with the autopilot function, though. I'd recommend giving it a good test with the trial version before licensing. Maptech ON is really good in the configuration department. You can choose input port, passthru port, and autopilot port. You can configure what autopilot sentences are generated and what talker ID they have. Really nice. But it only supports Maptech charts. They have a new product they're announcing soon; but I know nothing about it as yet. __________________________________________________ __________ Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious. Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/ |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:36:38 -0500, "Doug Dotson"
wrote: The only beef I have woth Capn is that the port used for GPS in and autopilot out must be the same. Does OZI allow different ports be specified for in and out? Yes, it does allow this. I haven't done much testing with the autopilot function, though. I'd recommend giving it a good test with the trial version before licensing. Maptech ON is really good in the configuration department. You can choose input port, passthru port, and autopilot port. You can configure what autopilot sentences are generated and what talker ID they have. Really nice. But it only supports Maptech charts. They have a new product they're announcing soon; but I know nothing about it as yet. __________________________________________________ __________ Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious. Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/ |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
The only beef I have woth Capn is that the port used for GPS in
and autopilot out must be the same. Does OZI allow different ports be specified for in and out? Doug s/v Callista "Glen "Wiley" Wilson" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:48:18 -0800, "Steve" wrote: FUGAWI, but you have to respect people who name their product after a bad joke. I appreciate all of your comments Wiley, but please expand on the above 'snipe'.. Steve s/v Good Intentions Steve - I see you already have the answer. I didn't mean that as a snipe; I truly like the attitude it shows. A slightly different version of the joke refers to the Fukarya tribe. Another poster recommended Maptech. I like it, but I doubt that anyone who has a beef with the resource requirements of CAPN will like Maptech much better. I was never satisfied with it till I upgraded to an 850 mhz cpu with 256MB. The official recommendation of "Pentium class cpu and 64MB" is absurd. Nice functionality though. It's what I run when I want to use the photos and topo maps from their chartkits. The configurability of Offshore Navigator is superb. The current version seems reliable enough, though I had a lot of trouble with older versions. You can use any charts you like, as long as MapTech made them. As for OziExplorer support, I doubt that you could find many people to complain about it. The author has an excellent record of fixing user problems and adding requested features. Also, there is an excellent Ozi mailist on Yahoo that generally turns around answers to questions in a few hours. I licensed the program in 1998 and I really haven't had any reliability problems since that first year. Also, even with all the new features that have been added, there has never been an upgrade fee. Which is not to say the program is perfect. The real problem with Ozi from my point of view is that it was originally built for hikers and off-roaders and has grown more by accretion than by design. The feature set and interface are not ideal from our point of view. Given the option, I'd try hard to wait and see how ENC support shakes out before choosing. I have the feeling that most of the vendors are trying to figure out how to make those free charts more expensive than the ones we have now. If I planned on going places where BSB chart coverage is spotty or insanely expensive (and I do), Ozi or Fugawi would be aboard regardless of what else I was using. __________________________________________________ __________ Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious. Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/ |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:48:18 -0800, "Steve" wrote:
FUGAWI, but you have to respect people who name their product after a bad joke. I appreciate all of your comments Wiley, but please expand on the above 'snipe'.. Steve s/v Good Intentions Steve - I see you already have the answer. I didn't mean that as a snipe; I truly like the attitude it shows. A slightly different version of the joke refers to the Fukarya tribe. Another poster recommended Maptech. I like it, but I doubt that anyone who has a beef with the resource requirements of CAPN will like Maptech much better. I was never satisfied with it till I upgraded to an 850 mhz cpu with 256MB. The official recommendation of "Pentium class cpu and 64MB" is absurd. Nice functionality though. It's what I run when I want to use the photos and topo maps from their chartkits. The configurability of Offshore Navigator is superb. The current version seems reliable enough, though I had a lot of trouble with older versions. You can use any charts you like, as long as MapTech made them. As for OziExplorer support, I doubt that you could find many people to complain about it. The author has an excellent record of fixing user problems and adding requested features. Also, there is an excellent Ozi mailist on Yahoo that generally turns around answers to questions in a few hours. I licensed the program in 1998 and I really haven't had any reliability problems since that first year. Also, even with all the new features that have been added, there has never been an upgrade fee. Which is not to say the program is perfect. The real problem with Ozi from my point of view is that it was originally built for hikers and off-roaders and has grown more by accretion than by design. The feature set and interface are not ideal from our point of view. Given the option, I'd try hard to wait and see how ENC support shakes out before choosing. I have the feeling that most of the vendors are trying to figure out how to make those free charts more expensive than the ones we have now. If I planned on going places where BSB chart coverage is spotty or insanely expensive (and I do), Ozi or Fugawi would be aboard regardless of what else I was using. __________________________________________________ __________ Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious. Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/ |
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Fugawi 3.x.x V. The Crapn
FUGAWI, but you have to respect people who name their product after a
bad joke. I appreciate all of your comments Wiley, but please expand on the above 'snipe'.. Steve s/v Good Intentions |
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