Hi Laurie, It may be of interest to the community that we have just partnered with Butterfly to market Dittolog.
We are in the midst of finalizing development of a SAR system ourselves, through connection of a Flarm receiver to the dittobase. We have also implemented many very useful functions for a club. I hope subscribers here dont mind me giving a quick description of what we are up to with dittolog. We have greatly restructured the cost of Dittolog. People found the hardware costs prohibitive, even though a Dittolog device for an aircraft was way less than Flarm , and it contained basically the same building blocks. There were also some who found the 50cents per flight to expensive. Funnily enough, in Europe, they rather charge a levy per member per year. Our new cost structure is roughly as follows A dittolog device is roughly Euro99 for an aircraft A DittBase for your club house is now Euro299 We charge a flat fee of Euro29 per flying member. Note that we do get takeoff and landings from ALL Flarm aircraft registered on our site, regardless of whether they have a dittolog device installed. Cheers Mark On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Scott Penrose <sco...@dd.com.au> wrote: > Yes we do that at gliding club victoria. It is quite easy to read the > Public URL data and process the information. > > Buzz me off line if you want some code. > > My altimeter goal (should one day I actually have that elusive thing > called time) is to integrate it as a service that adds to other services, > so you can take the SPOT data from the public URLs and put it up on > skylines - instead of maintaining our own maps - > http://skylines.xcsoar.org/ - but making it plugins so we could have a > simple CGI / HTMP Page that updates with just the “issues” (e.g. landed, > not home, or Help pressed etc), up to and including custom Google Maps > output (which is what we do at GCV). > > There is a 3rd way (SMS you mentioned, and Public URLs I mentioned) and > that is via email. The email can also be automatically processed. Email and > public URLs cost nothing - but don’t do constant tracking, so require > someone press OK, or Help, or on the newer models - custom message. > > Scott > > On 5 Jun 2014, at 10:38 am, Laurie Hoffman <lozhoff...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > Have been thinking about our need for a programme that will give spot info > primarily in the event of a need for SAR. > Has anyone had success with something that offers real time data and that > doesn't need sms which would become expensive with regular monitoring? > > *Regards* > > *Laurie Hoffman* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > -- Mark Fisher Managing Director Swift Performance Equipment Unit 2, 1472 Boundary Rd Wacol 4076 Australia Ph: +61 7 3879 3005 Fax: +61 7 36076277 www.spe.com.au
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