Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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Happy New Year and many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out the long last survey of 2023 on the use of Starlink on our boats.\u00a0 21% of those who answered have added Starlink to their boats. Of those 81% installed the RV Mobile antenna while 19% went with the Maritime Mobile antenna.\u00a0 Readers with the RV Mobile antenna gave the systerm a 4 star rating out of 5. Those with the Maritime system gave it 4.5 stars out of 5.\u00a0 67% of Starlink users also have a backup communications system.\u00a0 In order, the most popular backup comm systems are: Ham\/SSB radio, InReach, IridiumGo, Sat phones, an EPIRB and PLBs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0 In 2024, are you planing to make serious upgrades or improvements to your cruising boats? Happy New Year and many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out the long last survey of 2023 on the use of Starlink on our boats.\u00a0 21% of those who answered have added Starlink to their boats. Of those 81% installed the RV Mobile antenna while 19% went with the Maritime Mobile antenna.\u00a0 Readers with the RV Mobile antenna gave the systerm a 4 star rating out of 5. Those with the Maritime system gave it 4.5 stars out of 5.\u00a0 67% of Starlink users also have a backup communications system.\u00a0 In order, the most popular backup comm systems are: Ham\/SSB radio, InReach, IridiumGo, Sat phones, an EPIRB and PLBs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41945,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41943\/revisions\/41945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}