Introduction:/Features:
Sail the seven seas or cruise your favourite river or harbour with total confidence...
SOB is a Windows navigation program which gives real-time on-screen chart positioning and advanced navigation calculations, displayed in easily understood data panels - automating and simplifying the process of planning, piloting and navigation
SOB is a powerful charting, piloting and navigation program for your PC or laptop and Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Vista Operating Systems. (The software is not compatible with PDA)
SOB easily interfaces with your GPS and other NMEA-0183 compatible navigation instruments (eg: depth sounder, RADAR, wind anemometer, AIS Receiver/Transponder, speed LOG, Electronic Compass, NMEA multiplexer and autopilot)
SOB can connect to your NMEA instruments via any standard serial connection, or virtual COM ports as assigned by USB or Bluetooth connections. For most single serial port and GPS installations, SOB will find and connect to the GPS automatically.
SOB can also connect to your instruments or boats via a wireless WAN (or TCP/IP) connection.
Almost any GPS manufactured since 1993 should work with SOB. The GPS must be NMEA 0183 compatible. Some older models may require data interface boxes which may no longer be available. Any GPS manufactured in the past 5-8 years is sure to be suitable, and apart from requiring a data cable (a standard accessory), will be pre-configured to work with little or no setup. Modern USB or Bluetooth connected GPS units are suitable for use with SOB.
A GPS (satellite-based navigation device) pinpoints your precise position on the Earth's surface, SOB then locates the most appropriate chart from your digital chart portfolio according to the scale and displays it all in a seamless, clear and simple graphical manner on the computer screen.
Additional standard navigation instruments (NMEA-0183 compatible) are easily integrated
Autopilot: with just a mouse click or two on the computer chart, SOB will control the ship's course by sending information to the autopilot, steering your vessel precisely to the route or destination waypoint as planned on the computer screen. With appropriate devices connected, the autopilot can also be used to steer your boat to a preset wind angle.
AIS Transponder/Receiver: now mandatory on all large commercial and passenger ships, the Universal Automatic Identification System uses VHF radio signals to transmit ship's information to all AIS enabled radio receivers in range (typically 20-40 miles). SOB "reads" this data and graphically displays the acquired targets directly on the chart screen. The received information includes: latitude/longitude, course, speed, ship size and type, destination and eta. Navigation aids are also increasingly being fitted with AIS devices to transmit their precise location.
RADAR: interfaces directly with the computer charts, allowing you to plot an unknown RADAR "blip" transmitted as an ARPA target directly onto the SOB computer chart screen. SOB calculates the other vessel's course and speed; and by extrapolation, can estimate its future position and all CPA data (Closest Point of Approach) and whether it poses a collision potential to your course. SOB will also redisplay the RADAR's cursor and VRM/EBL positions for compatible devices.
Wind Indicators: Predominantly for sailors, quickly become an indispensable source of information when linked to the SOB program. The wind indicator and anemometer provides the computer with Apparent Wind strength direction. SOB combines this information with your boat's course and speed to determine the True Wind speed and direction.
Electronic Compass & Speed LOG: Electronic compasses (gyros, fluxgate etc) if installed (often as part of an Autopilot installation) can be combined with manual speed pickup instruments (analogue LOG device) which, if NMEA enabled, will be used by SOB to calculate boat leeway, wind slippage and current "Set & Drift".
Echo (depth) Sounder: The onboard depth sounder can be integrated with the computer and SOB charting software to override the depths as indicated on the digital charts.
If your computer is short of COM (or Serial) ports for connecting NMEA instruments, the easiest solution is to buy a "multiplexer" (available from marine electronics shops, for a couple of hundred dollars, or check the specialist links on this page) which combines the wiring from all the NMEA instruments and sends their data on a single cable to a computer COM Port.
Extra COM Ports can also be formed from the USB connectors using a "Serial to USB Converter" (available from computer or electronics stores.
Normally the user does not need to buy a chart to use SOB. There are worldwide background level charts to "coastal" details included, plus 15 samples of full-detail C-Map charts (Sydney, Auckland, Singapore..)
The electronic charts, C-Map software is not included in the package, If required, can be quoted and purchased seperately
System Requirements:
- Requires Windows 2000 or XP or Vista
- Min: Pentium 3, 128 mb Ram
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