{"id":1307,"date":"2025-02-13T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:35:38","slug":"first-blog-post-using-iridium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/first-blog-post-using-iridium\/","title":{"rendered":"First Blog Post Using Iridium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">This blog post has been created using the WordPress add-on Postie by sending an e-mail\u00a0 to a special e-mail account that is used only for creating posts. Together with Iridium GO Exec, this is how I intend to contribute to my blog while sailing in blue waters. And now, here is a gratuitous photograph of my prop, which I have just painted with Prop Speed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?attachment_id=1308\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_6122-HUB-4.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225px\" height=\"300px\" style=\"margin: 10px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_6122-HUB-4.jpeg?w=756&amp;ssl=1 756w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_6122-HUB-4.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the image quality is relatively poor. This is because the Iridium DataHub automatically reduces the image resolution to facilitate data transmission over the Iridium network. This is necessary because unlike the Starlink network, which has low orbit satellites and therefore relatively fast transmission speeds and short latency, the Iridium network has high orbit satellites and much less bandwidth.<br \/>\nOne last point &#8230; when offshore, I do not have the bandwidth to load this website, so I am actually posting blind. There will no-doubt be mistakes that will have to be corrected when I am back in coastal waters and have access to the Internet.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post has been created using the WordPress add-on Postie by sending an e-mail\u00a0 to a special e-mail account that is used only for creating posts. Together with Iridium GO Exec, this is how I intend to contribute to my blog while sailing in blue waters. And now, here is a gratuitous photograph of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/first-blog-post-using-iridium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Blog Post Using Iridium&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline-of-aegir-ran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}