Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter

2015-12-24 Thread allen via CnC-List
.com Cc: Russ & Melody Subject: Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter You mean, there's a reason for using Open CPN other than "Being the cheap SOB that..." ? :) Cheers, Russ Sweet 35 mk-1 OpenCPN user too At 08:26 AM 24/12/201

Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter

2015-12-24 Thread Frederick G Street via CnC-List
Allen — I have to admit to having absolutely NO experience with the Raytec RNS software. It’s Windoze only, and I’m a Mac guy. There are so many planning software tools out there, both free and not, that it’s about impossible to keep track any more. But OpenCPN gets a lot of good press. — Fr

Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter

2015-12-24 Thread Russ & Melody via CnC-List
ist.com>cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: <mailto:joel.aron...@gmail.com>Joel Aronson Subject: Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter Allen, Being the cheap SOB that I am, I run OpenCPN on my laptop, but I have never tried to transfer routes to my e7. I also use the free

Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter

2015-12-24 Thread Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List
Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter Joel, I am looking at OpenCPN for another reason, but it exports a .gpx file and I don't know what that is or what accepts it as an input. Fred, What do you think of Raymarine RayTec RNS Navigation Software? Allen 30-2 Ha

Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter

2015-12-24 Thread allen via CnC-List
er 22, 2015 9:36 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Joel Aronson Subject: Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter Allen, Being the cheap SOB that I am, I run OpenCPN on my laptop, but I have never tried to transfer routes to my e7. I also use the free Ray charts on the e7 r

Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter

2015-12-22 Thread Joel Aronson via CnC-List
Allen, Being the cheap SOB that I am, I run OpenCPN on my laptop, but I have never tried to transfer routes to my e7. I also use the free Ray charts on the e7 rather than the Navionics charts. Voyager does not look like it runs independent of the plotter - for that you would need RNS Navigation

Re: Stus-List Route Planning and Uploading to Chart Plotter

2015-12-22 Thread allen via CnC-List
My old laptop died and I've replaced it with a refurbished Panasonic Toughbook. Nice upgrade for cheap. Windows 7 with upgrade to 10 option Next issue, what software to install. For the past 20 years I've used CAPN for route planning and then just connected my laptop into the onboard GPS for