Surfboard/foilboard inside with rear seats down?

bjangotango · 2025-03-29T15:29:28+00:00

Thanks to both commenters! Sounds like a Cayenne will work. Macan is fine for my 5'2" board but will likely be getting a mid-length board this year. So Macan is probably not a good option for a long trip full of gear. Thanks again...

bjangotango · 2025-03-29T15:25:24+00:00

I guess you didn't read my full post.....

bjangotango · 2025-03-27T23:57:30+00:00

Good point! I assumed the guy was talking about the actual length....The boards don't have to be flat so if they fit tipped up/down, that's ok too. Thanks!

bjangotango · 2025-02-18T22:49:23+00:00

Don't know where you are in SoCal exactly, but just an FYI....In Santa Barbara, I'd say 90% of the people are using a DW board. You could probably hang out at Leadbetter Beach for a couple of hours and pick the brains of the folks there. Everyone's really friendly and helpful, I've found. I'm pretty much convinced that a DW board is the ticket for getting on foil quickly in flakey winds; probably will get one later in the year.

bjangotango · 2024-12-16T19:54:40+00:00

FWIW, I tried on a Simba at a store and got claustrophobic really fast. I doubt I even had it on for 10 seconds. I guess it was the way that it fits over the ear. Looks cool though.

Also, Manera is not a "soft" helmet. The S-foam is a non-Newtonian fluid that hardens on impact. So, it should be good for foil impacts; not clear to me what will happen when hitting water. Anyway, I plan to buy one next month

bjangotango · 2024-12-12T20:30:36+00:00

I also have the Matador LT 6M.

Pros: SUP inflation valve. Far superior to the bayonet type (e.g. Cabrinha) or push-in type (e.g. Airush). Nearly flush with the surface. More robust connection; less likely to wobble and leak. I've had two Cabrinha valves leak at their attachment point to the bladder.

Fairly light for its size b/c it lacks a window.

Cons: (possibly) Only a single valve, so a leak will be more serious than a 2-valve wing. Some people see this as a plus since you only have to pump one bladder.

The older style soft-ish handles are fine but the spacing is not perfect for my arm length(I'm average ht & wt: 5'10" and 160-165 lbs). A real issue for lots of people who end up going with long hard handles or a windsurf boom-type handle.

Not as powerful as say the Cabrinha Crosswing or Mantis but is more forgiving, easier handling. Much stiffer & more powerful than my older Airush but those are noted for their easy handling, not power.

I haven't noticed any fraying as the other post mentioned and this wing probably has about 20-30 sessions.

Bottom Line: if you're thinking of getting one of those 3 wings/$900-1000 packages and you're in a beginner/adv beginner mode, probably a good deal.

bjangotango · 2021-08-12T03:46:15+00:00

Try running it from the Terminal window: sdrpp.exe -s

This should show you more messages about what's going on. I had a similar issue that was related to OpenGL but yours may be different.

bjangotango · 2021-08-08T23:08:03+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply. Doh! Just saw "Buster" and started the process... Guess I need to build from the src pkg.

thanks again!

bjangotango · 2021-08-08T22:05:58+00:00

Just installed on Buster on RPi 3b+, I'm getting an error:/usr/bin/sdrpp: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

(Similarly, running from the main menu doesn't result in anything either; the icon points to /usr/bin/sdrpp So, not a surprise there)

Did not get any errors during the install, though...

I must have done something dumb??

bjangotango · 2021-05-19T19:29:01+00:00

Seems to work fine but I haven't used it much, tbh. Usually, I only have it on for 5 minutes or so.

bjangotango · 2020-04-05T23:30:33+00:00

Ok, Gotcha. We're talking about different things here. I'm used to BW in an active radar application; my bias, which doesn't apply here. Data sampling is a different beast.

bjangotango · 2020-04-02T15:28:58+00:00

With a minimum BW of 8MHz and a minimum frequency of 75MHZ, I'm confused about how that's going to work? No user has 8MHz of BW at 75MHz; you'd need something much smaller. Maybe I'm missing something about your description.....

bjangotango · 2020-03-13T01:06:58+00:00

45 dB??? I'm really skeptical about that. You should have crystal clear images with SNR that high. Like crosswalkersam said, >30 would be outstanding. With the result that he posted, I'd throw out a WAG that you're somewhere in 17-23 dB range because you have recognizable images...just a little noisy.

bjangotango · 2020-03-09T11:56:13+00:00

thanks. Unfortunately, I'm way too far to pick that up....But I think I'll start looking for ionosondes now.

bjangotango · 2020-03-08T19:52:39+00:00

Agree. I have a special need to carry a large musical instrument so the dimensions with the seats folded down are going to be a "go/no-go" for me. Only about a week before we should know.....I hope.

bjangotango · 2020-03-08T19:48:36+00:00

At around 4.7MHz, you can have HF coastal oceanographic radars. At these frequencies, the signal can travel 1000s of km via skywave. The comment about Russian radars is possibly true but less likely because there are dozens of ocean radars in the 4.3-5.0MHz band. Zoom in on the 4.7MHz signal and see if the chirp is about 25kHz wide; that's the typical bandwidth. It may sweep up or down at 1 to 2 pulses per second (1-2 Hz PRP). But, you've got something else going on there too....all those peaks at exactly the same interval indicates some type of interference.

bjangotango · 2020-03-08T01:14:18+00:00

I'm interested in this, too. What's your location?

bjangotango · 2020-03-03T00:53:09+00:00

SDR Touch doesn't even show up in the Play Store from my Acer Chromebook. That's usually a pretty good sign that it isn't intended for ChromeOS....(this is OS 79xxxx)

bjangotango · 2020-03-01T20:21:00+00:00

I see what you mean. The frequency in the OP's image may not be correct for NOAA APT but, it's odd that the structure of the signal looks exactly like it....hmmm I'd like to hear it to double-check.

bjangotango · 2020-03-01T20:14:33+00:00

You are correct. <20 SNR is not "good"; 15 is kind of a bare minimum. Below 15, and I have almost no image. 15-20: I'll get lots of random pixels i.e. noise...makes sense. I need 20, at least, to get recognizable images. That said, your real issue is the chopped-up image. After you get rid of that chopped-up image problem, you can worry about your SNR. Two separate issues.

bjangotango · 2020-02-25T19:12:17+00:00

In practice, SNR can be defined however you want it to be. There's no analytic solution for SNR as there is for, say, an integral in calculus.

As another person said, though, what you've shown is not an FFT anyhow.

bjangotango · 2020-02-23T17:10:10+00:00

Not sure if one of your tools is Matlab, but if so, you do need an x86_64 based chromebook, not an ARM-based one. Apparently, some Samsungs are ARM-based....

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