Originally posted by: Rubycon
RADAR!
Watching that fall while sailing towards the Turks and Caicos islands today.![]()
Originally posted by: JohnCU
pics?
Originally posted by: rudeguy
I'm still very jealous of your job Rubycon!
Originally posted by: Rubycon
I'm jealous of 98% of ATOT's internet connection speed right now!![]()
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
the radar, sir... it's .... JAMMED!
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
What kind of ship is that?
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
What kind of ship is that?
This.
At first I wanted to guess civilian cruise vessel of some kind, then I noticed the radar/comms equipment seems to be a little more special-looking.
Yep. She's not likely to respond past the initial post.Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Guys, her internet, like a lot of other internets at sea is satellite-based, and extremely expensive to own and operate. Even with the cost, to even squeak out a 128-256kbps connection shared across the entire ship on a consistent basis is nearly heavenly; and this is assuming she is operating under the C-band frequency. Don't expect her to respond back quickly, nor share a ton of pics since she can't share that many pics so quickly.
Anyways, like I said, great to see another AT'er out at sea suffering the slow internets.
my location!
location.jpg
ummm
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml <---so which one are you?
I know that entire area is just LITTERED with cruise liners. Do you actually work on a cruise ship? That pic is a bit aft of the bridge, about 1 deck higher.
You are on one of these ships:
Eurodam
Celebrity Century
Monarch of the Seas
Liberty Sun
Tropic of Canada
etc..
My guess is the Celebrity Century.
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
What kind of ship is that?
This.
At first I wanted to guess civilian cruise vessel of some kind, then I noticed the radar/comms equipment seems to be a little more special-looking.
The larger dome is probably a C-Band satellite dish for Internet.
The smaller one looks like an Immarsat f77 sat phone dish for just satellite phone comms or the newer maritime ip-based fleet broadband service (which is still very slow, hehe). The smaller one is mainly used as a backup, as it is pay-per-data.
I think most cruise ships have these now.
Originally posted by: Gothgar
omg, see those little black dots... aliens, you are about to get abducted
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Guys, her internet, like a lot of other internets at sea is satellite-based, and extremely expensive to own and operate. ...
Originally posted by: Rubycon
Originally posted by: Gothgar
omg, see those little black dots... aliens, you are about to get abducted
Probably dirty sensor (damn full frame sensor is HARD to keep clean in a harsh environment!) combined with lots of jpeg compression to keep the size
small.
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Guys, her internet, like a lot of other internets at sea is satellite-based, and extremely expensive to own and operate. ...
Yes indeed it is. I'm on the Norwegian Dawn FYI!
C band getting about 200kbps average cost me $0.10 per minute to use!
LEO (outside contractor) setup I'm blessed to have access for free and is 1Mbps+ both ways with a sixth of the latency! Fastest thing on the seas but currently the links are HARD DOWN (sic).
Text like these posts are not bad but no youtube or other stuff with audio for now.![]()