The Blue Book needs your help.
Yesterday, same as Friday, I spent most of the afternoon working on my boat ("Ben") trying to get the VHF radio/GPS chartplotter to talk nice to each other. The radio has a nifty set of DSC features, which allow it to transmit and receive position data from the Magellan FX324 GPS unit and then display position data "polled" from nearby DSC-capable boats on its LCD screen ... including emergency/distress signals.
Sorta like a poor man's radar for collision avoidance.
The problem is my old radio got fried, and I took advantage of the warranty to upgrade to Uniden's 525 but now can't sort which NMEA 183 data in/data out/reference wires to connect. Every time I got frustrated I switched the radio over to Fog Horn mode, dialed up the volume and let nearby pedestrians know I was anchored in the driveway.
Didn't have much luck finding model-specific wiring diagrams on the web. If you've got any ideas, please let me know; I'd appreciate it severely.
Enough Whining About Wiring Already: What About Schumacher?
Well, if you saw yesterday's practice sesession live from The Hungaroring Race Course in Budapest, you already know Ferrari's Michael Schumacher wasn't setting his usual blistering pace.
This could get interesting ... since the tight n' twisty race course has practically zero opportunities for overtaking.
Qualifying starts at 8:00am EDST on SpeedTv.
World Champion Alonso Penalized
-from Formula1RaceNews.com
Alonso gesticulated at Doornbos, whom he felt had held him up, and then appeared to deliberately weave and slow his Renault in front of the Dutchman’s car during the afternoon’s session.
Stewards Tony Scott Andrews, Antonio Vasconcelos Tavares and Lajos Herczeg decided that Alonso’s actions were “unnecessary, unacceptable and dangerous”, and awarded him a one second time penalty to be applied to his fastest lap time in each of the qualifying sessions, Q1, Q2 and Q3.
Additionally, Alonso received a similar penalty for overtaking another car after the session had finished, under waved yellow flags.
He will thus get an aggregated cumulative penalty of two seconds in Q1, Q2 and Q3, effectively damning his chances on a circuit on which overtaking is virtually impossible.
Please Papa ... How Is Any Of This Stuff Related?
Even though vampires are thought to have originated in Rumania, it's Bela Lugosi's Hungarian accent that's stereotypically identified as vampires' distinctive lilt. And clearly, it's old wives' tales that vampires can't cross water and only come out at night.
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