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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by vel0city on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:30PM (#34598298)
Another thing that Sirius does that a lot of people aren't talking about is their data services. Having updated weather and fish maps live while you're offshore is pretty handy and satellite internet connections can be very pricey.
Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by yetanotherloser on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:31PM (#34602492)
...you don't need a (relatively) expensive single sideband set and radio-nerd tendencies to pick up weather data offshore where you live? That is pretty great if so. Would that there were more of it.
Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by vel0city on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:46PM (#34602705)
I'm a little confused about your comment.

This is stuff like fishing recommendations by species, sea surface heights, temperature contors, 30m deep temperature condors, plankton concentrations, weather radar, storm tracks, wave heights, and more and then integrated into common Garmin, Raymarine, Lowrance, Simrad, and other equipment that many boats would already have. All of that data constantly updated and refreshed live even when you're miles out to sea and can't pick up common line of sight style transmissions.

Its not just a METAR weather report from an airport kinda near the shore.

Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by yetanotherloser on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:02AM (#34610494)
I know the stuff. I wasn't clear, and was asking, quite what the parent poster is mentioning people getting here as it didn't sound quite like the forms of this service I'm aware of - I'm not sure there is something like it everywhere. Setups I've seen with full "straight onto your plotter, live" stuff have only been satellite.