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I’m pretty far from convinced that a Starlink is something I’d use on any regular basis. If I could mount it in a sky-facing window, I’d put one in and leave it there - but I really can’t imagine fiddling with a Starlink on the glareshield very often. So the cigar lighter thing for me would be a way to play around with Starlink. I really don’t think I would pay to run a new circuit with a USB-C jack at this point. Right now it’s just the cigar lighter vs a battery for me. And if I were going to use a battery, the battery I’d most likely use is this one (purely out of a desire to avoid any more cables than absolutely necessary): https://a.co/d/7PjIMSR

Yep. Home Depot honored the $229 price match for me. (They’ll match their own price if it changes within 30 days of purchase.)

This thread has got me thinking again about the cigar lighter vs battery. For a Starlink Mini, at startup you need a max of 100w, but I understand that the normal draw is more like 25w. As others in this thread, my ac is 28v and I *think* the panel port is 28v without a step down (I haven’t tested, don’t know for sure). I have the “IGN TACH CIG” circuit with a 10A breaker, and 100w max at 28v is only 3.57A. It looks like under 2A for normal use after startup. People that use a portable battery with a Starlink seem to choose the beer cooler size batteries that wouldn’t meet the TSA requirement - yet another reason I’m reconsidering the cigar lighter approach. (100w is pretty borderline for a 99Wh battery.) If you have a good manufactured cable with the cigar adapter on one end and the Starlink plug on the other, it sounds like this might be the preferred approach?

Price is now down to $229 for the Starlink Mini.. https://starlink.com/ … and for anyone who followed my lead and bought one of these from Home Depot, they have a 30-day price guarantee. Just sayin

I’ll know soon enough I’ll report back here whether I can do the initial activation on standby or not … I haven’t opened the box yet.

This is what I do. I have a Pi-Hole server running at my house that does DNS over HTTPS to Cloudflare, and I also run a WireGuard server on the same box. Every device I have uses VPN via my WireGuard server, so I get the Pi-Hole ad blocking everywhere

I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the $299 mini. Home Depot has a 30-day return policy and they got it to my house the same day. I’m planning to stick with the $5 plan for now and see how it goes. Filing flight plans or looking at airborne weather doesn’t need more than 500kbps, but I guess we’ll see how long my passengers can handle social media at DSL speeds I definitely don’t like a cluttered setup, and I would love a viable approach where I just stick this thing in a rear window. What’s the current best practice in a Mooney? Seems about 50/50 in this thread between the glare shield and the pax window. I didn’t think it would be possible to have the antenna 90 degrees to the sky, but if it works then that seems less intrusive than the glareshield - where sooner or later I’ll inevitably eject it out onto the ramp with my foot caught in a cable.

Gmail has stopped flagging these emails as spam too…. So from my perspective the issue is fullly resolved at this point. The url hostname is correct and the sender email domain is trusted again.

The hostname issue in email links seems to be fixed - this sent me to the correct url

I’m getting a spam warning today from Gmail too. All messages from MS are being dumped into the spam folder, and I get this message if I try to open: Definitely feels like a DKIM/DMARC/SPF issue.

Yeah, but the link in the email is still incorrect. Unless Craig intends for the url9615 hostname to be used, something has to change on the server side independent from DNS.

Yeah, I was just trying to help. I know this isn’t the latest version, and I had tried to find a digital copy back when I bought the paperback. I can’t imagine there is much of a market for a PDF on a CD these days. It would be trivial to submit this to KDP and start selling on Amazon Kindle, if the family is interested. I doubt this is more than an afternoon’s worth of work, but I have no idea what the market might be for a digital copy of this book.

The internet archive seems to have it. https://archive.org/details/mountainflying0000imes

Sorry, answered my own question. Looks like they did sell it in a PDF format on a CD. Strange. https://www.mountainflying.com/products/cd_rom_books.html

Did they actually release this book in a digital format? I really tried to find one before I bought it in paperback a few years ago, but I had no luck.

Hmm. The record is now missing from DNS, so old email links have a lookup failure. I’ll have to wait for the next email to see if the links are fixed.

The link in this message still had the bad hostname. Maybe it takes a little while to apply?

Emails are the main way I am alerted about new posts. I subscribe to everything and I follow every thread that interests me, and I get an email on new posts. My best guess is that this is a staging domain for MS, and for some reason the site was set to use the staging hostname in email alerts. Dunno.

Every link in every email from Mooneyspace uses the url9615.mooneyspace.com hostname

@mooniac58

Still happening today ..

Every email I get has this domain: url9615.mooneyspace.com … so when I click the link, I get an error saying that the hostname doesn’t match the SSL certificate. This just started today - seems like a problem with a new configuration.

The Starlink Mini is now on sale for $299 and they have a $50 roam plan or $5 unlimited standby plan. All roam plans now include motion, so unless you’re pulling an awful lot of data, the $50 plan should be plenty - and the $5 plan is completely unlimited (but at a low 500kbps speed). https://starlink.com/roam I dunno if you can get away with motion on the standby plan, but $299 and $5/mo is just about cheap enough for me to get one to play with.

These are the ones that came on my J. I’m still sort of kicking myself for not buying a couple from your eBay stash — not because I need one now, but because I’ll need one sooner or later

Yuck