ex600 sat weather

sigh. I've got the WSI on the MLB700. have a GDL-69 in another bird with XM. NO COMPARISON.  I'll take WSI everytime when convective activity is a flight factor.  WSI is base radar while XM is composite. What is Avidyne thinking here?

No answer here...having the 700 installed right now to utilize the ex600 more fully...i suppose satellite weather market is dwindling with adsb weather

come on avidyne... better get with some adsb solutions for the ex500/ex600...  losing so much capability on those boxes without the ONLY sat solution currently!  

That will be a welcome solution... still need more connection options... aka ngt-9000!

AviSimpson, can you please advise on the MLB700? This is still a very useful device especially  for weather outside the lower 48 give the coverage of Sirius.

OK, thank you, so work in progress, standing by..... Should I cancel an ongoing install of an MLB700 as part of a major avionics upgrade in one of my planes or go ahead with it? This is the 3rd install for my aircraft... And what happens with the MLX770 weather product? Is this also affected?

Edited by TurboPA30 - 28 Feb 2017 at 5:57pm

Great. So here go many thousand $$$$ in value. And we wonder why aviation is less and less attractive. When Loran was replaced with GPS, there was much more transition time and WARNING. I really do hope you guys come up with a palpable exchange of the MLB700 for some ADS-B solution, so we don't lose the weather at least for domestic. And that means now that north and south of the border the weather options have significantly suffered, as the Sirius footprint was much better than the XM..... (Aside of my preference for WSI weather)

AviSimpson, Was just thinking, with XM & Sirius now one company, does Avidyne not have enough clout to make them replace WSI weather on the Sirius Satellite with XM, so we can keep the MLB700 and the superior outside ConUS coverage of the Sirius footprint? (And save each of us MLB700 users a good $3000 which it would cost to get the Heads-Up receiver installed instead of the MLB700, with inferior coverage?)

Sirius broadcasts from three satellites, which were launched in 2000 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The satellites orbit the Earth in an elliptical constellation, between 15,200 and 29,280 miles above the Earth's surface.

The three solar-powered satellites follow one after the other, so when one passes out of the Northern Hemisphere, for example, another is right behind it to provide uninterrupted transmission. Two ground stations, one in Ecuador and another in Panama, are in constant contact with the satellites.

XM has two Boeing Satellite Systems International satellites that transmit its signal. The satellites are called Rhythm (XM-3), which launched on Feb. 28, 2005, and Blues (XM-4), launched on Oct. 30, 2006. These two satellites replaced the original XM satellites, Rock (XM-2) and Roll (XM-1), which suffered technical problems and have since been powered down -- though they serve as backups if needed. Rhythm and Blues are positioned in the same relative locations as their predecessors, over the east and west coasts in stationary geosynchronous transfer orbits.

Coverage, red is Sirius, blue line XM. 

MysticCobra wrote: TurboPA30 wrote: Rhythm and Blues are positioned in the same relative locations as their predecessors, over the east and west coasts in stationary geosynchronous transfer orbits. The only stationary orbit possible is over the equator; you can't actually park a satellite over the US east or west coasts.  Such orbits are called geostationary orbits, which are a specific type of geosynchronous orbit.  Some sort of transfer orbit would be employed en route to the final positioning, but the final orbit wouldn't be called a transfer orbit. They should have just stuck with something like, "Rhythm and Blues have been placed in orbits that give each satellite good coverage of almost all of North and South America." Fun fact:  You can see the real-time position of these satellites here:   XM-3 (Rhythm) XM-4 (Blues)