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alright guys so I just came over to
Captain Jack's boat from testing system
a all day and one of the things we
talked about what system a is the only
weather service you can get as a paid
subscription through Sirius and that's a
great way to get weather if that's your
only option on system aid that is the
only option but with Furuno we came
over to captain Jack's boat because we
not only offer serious weather service
as well we also offer a free non
subscription service as well from a nav
Center marine weather and I came over to show
Captain Jack exactly how to use this
we're sitting in the marina where he
takes off from everyday it's actually
the perfect place to connect the Wi-Fi
and get that free weather download that
only takes seconds to download so what I
want to do first Captain Jack is I'm
going to show you how to set it up okay
so before we get our first weather
download we're going to go into settings
and scroll down to the weather page
because I want you to tell me what you
want to see so out of the box we have
wind waves cloud rain and snow pressure
and sea surface temperature
automatically selected that's our
default settings but when I was on some
of the other boats with your other
captains they said they really wanted to
have oceanic currents and altimeter as
well is that something you're interested
in yes it is the clouds on don't need so
much okay but definitely wind I'd like
waves I like rain or snow that's good to
have for the rain for the resources yeah
right temperature you know it's okay but
I feel how much you know I feel what
that is sea surface temperature ocean
currents and ok looks good to me
so once you got everything set up you'll
never have to go back in and do this
again this is what we're going to
download every time we get a weather
download at this point let's check it
out
ok so now that we're right now we're
sitting at just a regular chart pot
planter screen we're going to press the
home button and we have a dedicated
weather page this guy right here so
we'll just tap on it and now the most
important thing you need to know about
the weather page is it's going to
download weather for what you're looking
at on the screen right now so what we
don't want to do is it get weather data
because right now we're only at a three
three and a half mile scale gotcha not
much weather coming in there so what
we're gonna do is we're gonna zoom in
zoom out quite a bit and let's say we go
to man you got a lot of points yeah
that's probably good idea to clear it up
for everybody okay so now we're at 177
miles so we're
to get weather for the hundred 77 miles
surrounding us and we get that
information by simply tapping on the
screen and clicking on get latest
weather you're going to get a connection
to the server on the screen it takes
about 10 to 20 seconds
you see it's preparing the weather file
already we see that the weather updates
in progress and in just a few seconds
we're going to have weather for that 180
mile area so it's pretty much gonna say
zero the whole time and then it just
goes to 100 yeah 200 0 - hi Mary Jo done
so about 20 seconds and the cool part is
immediately you start seeing information
on the screen so no matter where we want
to go I mean we see where the boat is in
the center of the screen but if we tap
anywhere and you can see where the
weather card is so if we zoom out this is
the area of weather we just download and
that's because we had that up in the
screen absolutely absolutely if we
wanted to get weather for the entire
United States we could have just zoomed
in or zoomed out to the entire United
States but the cool part is so we're
looking at all this information if we
tap on the screen anywhere we can get
information about the area we just
tapped in so wind forest and direction
wave heights wave periods that's a lot
of good information absolutely well and
also wind force - because a lot of times
we're in here and it can seem windy
right but you know what especially like
on a north wind but a lot of times now
we finished 20 30 40 miles in the
swordfish grounds the wind could be a
lot less out there absolutely and
knowing that information in advance is
definitely an advantage we need and the
cool part is Jack is remember when we
set up in the menu all the things we
wanted to see we don't have to flood the
screen with all that information we can
select it right here on the weather page
so we simply look at the screen here we
scroll down and we say weather data we
pop it up this is all the information we
set in the main menu we wanted to
download every time we download weather
but if we don't want to have all that
information on a screen we don't have to
but we can so we can turn on waves we
can turn on let's say currents and
altimeter II okay so now we have all
that information on the screen as well
we'll just get rid of that and we'll
start taking a look around and we can
see the direction of current flow we can
see where the changes take place we have
our wind vane so we know what direction
the winds coming from and we can also
look for areas of upwelling and you know
basic altimeter information that I would
imagine not being a full-time fisherman
like you are that's got to be some good
information
oh definitely like knowing the currents
and the way the the winds are going also
you know the temperature breaks that's a
big thing to us you know we buy reports
that actually tell us that by having
this free and available to us from Furuno
that is a money saver and it gives us
the edge of knowing where the fish are
and the cool part about it is Jack it
doesn't matter if you cook it too so we
can hook the tzt three up to the hot
spot on our cellphone we can hook it to
the Wi-Fi here at the marina and like we
saw in 20 seconds the weather's
downloaded and we have it the default is
download weather for four days you can
download it once per day to keep it the
most updated or you know if you're going
on a trip you can download it for up to
14 days awesome so now once I have it
downloaded here and I go offshore and I
want to get a new reading how do I do
that
once you're off shore if you're too far
offshore you can't get a new reading
unless you have a serious subscription
so remember we have to have either a
cellular connection we got to connect
this unit to Wi-Fi to update the free
weather data
once that's done you know we can just
use it until we get back to a spot where
we can update it again so all's I really
need though is cell phone service with
the hotspot absolutely that really is
all you need and so if you're only three
miles off the coast I mean we've been
out and you know three models pretty
much all day today and I still had good
cell phone service yes I mean actually I
get service a lot of times 10 to 12 to
15 miles out so you know finding that
Gulfstream the inside shouldn't be an
issue for me at all right I wouldn't
think so and the other cool part I like
about this if you just want to see what
the weather is going to do throughout
the day you can either drag your finger
along the bar and just watch the changes
take place see what the wind vanes are
doing that's awesome or we can also
animate it and just let it play through
and sit here and watch what's going to
happen so Tim how often is this updated
well Jack you know it's interesting nav
Center weather is updated on a 12 or 24
hour increments schedule so say for
instance you're leaving here early in
the morning let's say you leave it 6
a.m. if you were to go out there and be
offshore at noon and you tried to update
it again you're going to get the same
information because it won't then again
be updated until 6 p.m. that night so as
long as what you're doing is a fishing
boat captain is updating it while you're
here in the marina every morning before
you leave you're going to have the most
current information and the other cool
thing about this nav Center marine weather
software is it's available anywhere in
the world if you have a serious
subscription you know that's a us-based
company and just the satellite
above us if you're over in you know
you're up or Asia or anywhere like that
you can't access serious weather but
this nav Center weather does work there
that's awesome man
worldwide worldwide all four systems are
able to utilize the Sirius XM
subscription-based marine weather with
an add-on module however TZ touch 3 is
the only system that offers a built in
free weather service that not only
offers weather for North America but
worldwide coming up next is the radar
shoot out and let me tell you we put
them through their paces using the solid
state domes we see how they handle short
range and long range performance we look
at a bird detection and a whole lot more
if radar performance is important to you
you're gonna want to see these test
results so make sure you tune in and
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