1. April 2010 by admin.

44′ Manta 44 Power Cat

• Year: 2006
• Current Price: US$ 519,000 
• Located In Fort Laurderdale, FL
• Hull Material: Fiberglass
• Engine/Fuel Type: Twin Diesel
• YW# 29984-2191099  

Hola  Alan

We’re getting closer to “swallowing the anchor.”  If you know anyone who’d ready to go cruising on a beautiful power cat refer them to the web site
  http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2006/Manta-44-Power-Cat-2191099/Fort-Laurderdale/FL/United-States                 where they can view pix of our baby.

Marcia and Gene
PANGAEA

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P.S. If you want your boat “Blogged” on here, or your “Crew Wanted” or “Yacht Position Wanted” blogged on here, absolutely for FREE. Contact me. Yep. Do it now…

Note: I reserve the right to refuse … if this gets abused. This is mainly to give back to the Boating and Yachting Community which has given a lot to me and my Marine Telecom Business.

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Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

+1 954 683 3426

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1. April 2010 by admin.

I’ve noticed here lately that two of my Windows 7 installations have had the operating system *reboot* without my consent. For me this can be bad because I might be running important software that requires a proper shutdown in the background. Just because I didn’t pay attention to Windows 7 for a little while it *should not* be rebooting and killing every software that I am running. On boats this could be bad as well because you might be running a navigation software or something else important, say a mail server software that has to be always up.

I noticed this for the 2nd time in a Virtual Box test installation of Windows 7 - used as a Sand Box / Safe environment to test stuff on Windows 7. My virtual box virtual machine somehow got a mis-configuration that made the hard drive not one of the default boot devices … anyway it brought to light the question … Why the heck did Windows 7 go down and reboot anyway.

So I went on to find out, in Control Panel, where they hid the Windows Update settings. I set it to notify me before downloading and installing Windows updates. This still causes it to *check* for updates - but not download them, and not reboot my computer with important stuff up and running. You might want to do this on your boat as well - because depending on your Internet Connection you may not want Windows 7 to download large Windows Updates over an expensive connection. You might wish to wait until you can switch to a less expensive Internet Connection.

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Alan Spicer - KA4UDX (http://www.qrz.com/db/ka4udx)

Alan Spicer Telecom / Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net - http://www.wifiyacht.net

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

+1 954 683 3426

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1. April 2010 by admin.

This is what Google.com’s Home Page Looks Like Today!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html

A different kind of company name
 
4/01/2010 12:01:00 AM
Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.

Google’s Topeka Campus Photo

* You heard it here first!

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Alan Spicer

DBA Alan Spicer Telcom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
Computer Services, Wired/Wireless Networking,
Cell/Sat/Landline Communications, General Consulting…
Marine, Business, Small Office and Home Office (SOHO)

* Cost Savings and Integration of Multiple Internet Technologies
on board Sail and Motor Yachts * Documentation, Operating
Instructions, and Support after the Sale *

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Mobile Internet! Step up to the HSPA 3G Fast Internet!

Ericsson W35 released in the USA. This you’ve gotta SEE!!
Better looking presentation than W25 (you might not want to
hide this one in the Doghouse!) + High Speed Upload which
the W25 did not have.
http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W35/

Livewire: Access Controller (Service Selector):
http://www.marinetelecom.net/Livewire_Service_Selector/

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1. April 2010 by admin.

* Alan’s Note: I am a new member of the Waterway Radio and Cruising Club - even though I don’t own a boat and I don’t “cruise waterways”, I do work for boats of all sizes in my business. I recently got back on HF/SSB Amateur/Ham Radio although I have been licensed (for the most part) for over 20 years. I didn’t get really interested in the WRCC Net that meets every morning on 7.268 Mhz - even though I found it along with other marine related nets online. I experimented with something called CQ100 (which you can find via a google.com search), and through that I met some guys that simulcast that net on CQ100 (via a protocol used for phone calls: VOIP) on a “virtual” 7.268 Mhz. They also will chat with you 10 Khz up on 7.278 *if* they are not too busy with the net, or possibly afterwards if they were flying solo on the net that day. So, I just received my welcome package from the WRCC, which included the Scuttlebut newsletter paper. There on page 14 was an article, which I will now partially quote:

The Terry and Harry Show

by Dave Harris N4NVI

Some have ignored it saying it’s not really ham radio. The would be correct. However, CQ100 has proven to be an added dimension to amateur radio and a real bonus to our net.

It uses VOIP (voice over the Internet protocol), the same dedicated phone lines that are used by computers to transfer data, programs like IM (instant messenger) and voice systems like Skype.

Here’s how the system works in conjunction with our net. Terry, K1LCH in the Tampa Bay area and Harry, AB4T near Raleigh (Alan says: that would be North Carolina - you can look these guys up by call sign on www.qrz.com) tune their HF transcievers to the net frequency, 7.268 MHZ at about 0715 each morning. They both boot up their CQ100 programs with the QSO-TV feature (new, additional program) and take the audio from their receivers and plug it into the “virtual radio” of CQ100.

(more of this article from http://waterwayradio.net in the Scuttlebut Newspaper that they publish.)

* Alan’s additional comments: So, basically now you don’t even have to have a SSB Radio to listen to and check into the WRCC Net - you could do so with just an Internet Connection and the CQ100 software. You do still have to have an Amateur Radio License… but at least in the U.S., with the removal of the Morse Code Requirment (yes no more morse code) it is even easier to get licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator. If anyone in marine (waterway cruising) needs what we call an “Elmer” (someone who’s a ham that helps prospective hams) to get licensed - I would be glad to be that person. There are published FCC question pools - which means that *all of the answers* along with the questions are known in advance. There are FREE and PAY study guides and software that can help you. And while on the same topic the same kind of things are also available for anyone in marine that might want to get their MROP - Marine Operators Permit - to be able to operate Marine SSB and VHF Radio as well. So let me know if you need that kind of help. There’s no charge from me for such things.

P.S. For those that think that Amateur Radio is old fashioned and outdated… there are modern technologies in use and under development in Amateur Radio - including Digital Modes, Satellite Communications, Software Defined Radio, Spread Spectrum, and the venerable VHF and UHF (hand held “handie talkies”, mobiles, and bases) with Community Repeaters in virtually every area of the country (and world). WRCC is listing even VHF Ham Repeaters in the Bahamas and Caribbean. Ham Radio helps you learn and use electronics and old and new communications methods. It’s a good hobby, a good comraderie, and very often good for safety and emergency communications.

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73 de KA4UDX (http://www.qrz.com/db/ka4udx)

Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net - http://www.wifiyacht.net

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

+1 954 683 3426

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