February 4, 2022 – a real-time post.
So where do you put the soap when you’re showering in the cockpit? In your solar panel soap holder of course!
Call in the 3D printer for yet another project. It’s so hard to find a soap holder like this so I printed my own.
OK, actually it’s a shelf for our Iridium GO. This miserable piece of crap has a broken external antenna connector so I’ll need set it outside where it has a clear view of the slow, antiquated Iridium satellites in order to download weather on our big trip south.
I could send it to Australia for repair which could take weeks or months or I could replace the unit completely (about $700 USD). I refuse to spend another cent with this miserable company. I can’t wait for Starlink to completely put them out of business! (Starlink satellite devices could be available for boats this year, or next! Come on Elon!)
So here’s our crippled device sitting in it’s 3D printed shelf attached to our Bimini-mounted solar panel where it works as well as any string-attached-to-two-tin-cans communication device can work, or in other words, normal for an Iridium GO.
(Sorry for the angry post!) -Rich
