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DSX Safly (Safe Fly) Tracker
Hi,
i just had a very nice conversation with DSX the builder of the DSX Safly Tracker. In my view this system is the best tracker, safety device available for (glider) pilots. In Europe we have thes ELTs but who knows if the ELT survives the crash and can report the position to the Search and Rescue. With a complete and high frequently track it will be much easier. The spot is also very nice but tracking all 10 minutes generates a big area to search. I wanted to buy a spot these days because of safety but i like the DSX Safly much more and think of buying one. Also the price seems to be very attractive. I found a good presentation on their web. Sadly the website is not very clearly arranged. http://www.d-s-x.net/index.php?optio...d=1 9&lang=en I am not an owner or have any relationship to DSX, only wanted to inform you. KT |
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I found a good presentation on their web. Sadly the website is not very clearly arranged. http://www.d-s-x.net/index.php?optio...&view=category... I am not an owner or have any relationship to DSX, only wanted to inform you. KT What's going on with the DSX T-Advisor? It appeared as a competitor to Flarm with some potential advantages. The website is pretty slow and pretty scant. Is it in operation? Working with the latest flarm software updates? Available/will work with the US powerflarm? John Cochrane |
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DSX Safly (Safe Fly) Tracker
Am 21.01.2011 17:36, John Cochrane wrote:
I found a good presentation on their web. Sadly the website is not very clearly arranged. http://www.d-s-x.net/index.php?optio...&view=category... I am not an owner or have any relationship to DSX, only wanted to inform you. KT What's going on with the DSX T-Advisor? It appeared as a competitor to Flarm with some potential advantages. The website is pretty slow and pretty scant. Is it in operation? Working with the latest flarm software updates? Available/will work with the US powerflarm? John Cochrane John, from a recent discussion on the segelflug.de forum it seems that the manufacturers of DSX T-Advisor did not license the FLARM components or firmware, as other competitors (e.g. LX) did. It seems that they rather did a reverse engineering of the FLARM protocol. If that is true, you will get no guarantee that the DSX T-Advisor will communicate correctly with FLARM or FLARM-compatible devices. -- Peter Scholz ASW24 JE |
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On Jan 24, 5:23*am, Peter Scholz wrote:
Am 21.01.2011 17:36, John Cochrane wrote: I found a good presentation on their web. Sadly the website is not very clearly arranged. http://www.d-s-x.net/index.php?optio...&view=category... I am not an owner or have any relationship to DSX, only wanted to inform you. KT What's going on with the DSX T-Advisor? It appeared as a competitor to Flarm with some potential advantages. The website is pretty slow and pretty scant. Is it in operation? Working with the latest flarm software updates? Available/will work with the US powerflarm? John Cochrane John, from a recent discussion on the segelflug.de forum it seems that the manufacturers of DSX T-Advisor did not license the FLARM components or firmware, as other competitors (e.g. LX) did. It seems that they rather did a reverse engineering of the FLARM protocol. If that is true, you will get no guarantee that the DSX T-Advisor will communicate correctly with FLARM or FLARM-compatible devices. -- Peter Scholz ASW24 JE And that just seems a monumentally stupid decision. The last thing we need are devices that receive and transmit kinda hopefully kinda like a Flarm but maybe not quite. It may not be just what they see as Flarm equipped threats but also how well their own position is received by other Flarm equipped aircraft. Flarm seems to have been pretty successful in developing an OEM market and supporting those OEMs so it pretty much boggles my mind as to why somebody would try to copy/clone the Flarm protocols vs. license the technology from Flarm. BTW there is PDF documentation on the T-Advisor product at http://www.soaringwear.com/uploadz/0...r_07_12_19.pdf (that may be out of date but the DSX web site (http://www.d-s-x.com) is usually so slow its unusable.) The GSM/GPRS based tracking datalink would be on no interest to me in the USA (think AT&T GSM phone coverage issues at altitude...). I believe the optional sat tracking datalink uses Globalstar so hopefully cheaper than Iridium based systems. If their web site was not so slow I'd look for the actual pricing. I have no idea if any of DSX's products are for sale in the USA, I kind of doubt it since they would need FCC approval and we've had heard of it. Darryl |
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DSX Safly (Safe Fly) Tracker
Am 24.01.2011 22:12, Darryl Ramm wrote:
And that just seems a monumentally stupid decision. The last thing we need are devices that receive and transmit kinda hopefully kinda like a Flarm but maybe not quite. It may not be just what they see as Flarm equipped threats but also how well their own position is received by other Flarm equipped aircraft. Flarm seems to have been pretty successful in developing an OEM market and supporting those OEMs so it pretty much boggles my mind as to why somebody would try to copy/clone the Flarm protocols vs. license the technology from Flarm. ... Agreed. Anyway, the company seems be be not too successful, to put it friendly. At least I know of no one that hat installed one of their devices, at least not in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. May be they have a local market in Italy. -- Peter Scholz ASW24 JE |
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