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Dave5041
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Initially Posted - 05/23/2011 :  21:08:16  Show Profile
I have long touted MacENC as a great nav program, and I have wanted to try INAVX since it will connect to my laptop in the cabin over bluetooth and act as a repeater for MacEnc and several others, but I was put off by the price. I finally sprung the cash. MacENC will accept data from just about any device you have - AIS, radar. GPS, Grib weather data - and display it as instruments or overlay it on your chart, and INAVX is supposed to be able to display that info. I spent a number of frustrating hours with MacENC in gps simulator mode trying to get the data to repeat to my IPod. Didn't work! Today, I charged my GPS puck and set it outside, fired up MacENC on the Macbook Pro, and INAVX on my Ipod. There I was! In instrument display, it showed all the data that was available. Duh! I guess it doesn't work with simulated GPS. I bought MacENC for $109 back around version 3 or 4 and have had free upgrades to 8.3 so far, so it hurt to pay $50 for INAVX, but the NOAA and Corps of Engineers charts are free for both programs. INAVX uses the raster charts and several commercial brand and MacENC can use a variety of formats.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle
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zeil
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Response Posted - 05/23/2011 :  23:09:38  Show Profile
Glad it works for you...

Bought iNavX to work in conjunction with a "Bad Elf", GPS and AyTides on my IPod Touch. It takes some time to get around and am just at the starting point. So far so good!!

Just my luck that it has all the US charts you'll ever need except the ones for our summer, west coast and lake, sailing in Canada. We're planning to cruise Desolation Sound, BC., in July, together with Peter and Angela among others. Before buying the rather costly Canadian charts I want to make sure that the Ipod display is sufficient. I did purchase a cigarette lighter plug-in to feed the power-hungry GPS and IPod from the house battery. We'll take along a 1200 watt generator.

Edited by - zeil on 05/23/2011 23:11:19
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