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Tim Olson
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 Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: WSI Weather on the cheap |
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Here's a big WSI weather tip for y'all....
If you are looking for WSI weather and are worried about the
pricing of the receivers that you'd have to buy with the Sirius
system, and you've been holding off buying the old receiver
because you don't want to toss away your cash, read on.
You can get WSI on your Chelton or other EFIS for a LOT less
money than the price of a new receiver, but you need to act
FAST, and I mean really fast.
Recently I was poking around used equipment sites just surfing
for "WSI, AV-100" and "WSI, AV-200", the experimental and certified
systems. There are many avionics dealers dumping those units
because they are perceived as useless since the sirius upgrade
will require new receivers.
But, I talked to WSI and verified that if you activate a receiver
and have an active plan....even if you don't have the receiver
mounted in the plane yet, you are fully eligible for the free
receiver upgrade and you will receive the above AV-300 receiver
for FREE. So if you're within a year of flying, there is a huge
possibility that this would be of benefit to you.
Just to give you an idea, I ran across one receiver for $695, and
one for $895. It just doesn't get any cheaper than that. (Make sure
to call the places, because the website price was $1595) The only
thing that I'm unsure of is if you get a free antenna upgrade as
well as the receiver, and the antennas on the new units are $659
List Price (actual dealer pricing may be lower), so you may end
up re-purchasing a new antenna at a later date. But, you would
save the $3000-3688 on the receiver.
Also, I just got a mailing that said we should verify our mailing
addresses by June 15th for the receiver swap, so I would assume
that if you plan to do this, you should act extremely fast and buy
and activate something right way. You don't have to actually
power it up and activate it, just activate your plan.
I thought some of you would find this tip useful. I know the
2 guys who got to get those cheap receivers are thrilled.
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Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying
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GenGrumpy(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: WSI Weather on the cheap |
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Tim - where are you finding these?
I've looked around and come up empty.
Lost a bid on Ebay on the only one I found.
grumpy
In a message dated 6/12/2007 9:36:09 AM Central Standard Time, Tim(at)MyRV10.com writes:
| Quote: | --> RV10-List message posted by: Tim Olson <Tim(at)MyRV10.com>
Here's a big WSI weather tip for y'all....
If you are looking for WSI weather and are worried about the
pricing of the receivers that you'd have to buy with the Sirius
system, and you've been holding off buying the old receiver
because you don't want to toss away your cash, read on.
You can get WSI on your Chelton or other EFIS for a LOT less
money than the price of a new receiver, but you need to act
FAST, and I mean really fast.
Recently I was poking around used equipment sites just surfing
for "WSI, AV-100" and "WSI, AV-200", the experimental and certified
systems. There are many avionics dealers dumping those units
because they are perceived as useless since the sirius upgrade
will require new receivers.
But, I talked to WSI and verified that if you activate a receiver
and have an active plan....even if you don't have the receiver
mounted in the plane yet, you are fully eligible for the free
receiver upgrade and you will receive the above AV-300 receiver
for FREE. So if you're within a year of flying, there is a huge
possibility that this would be of benefit to you.
Just to give you an idea, I ran across one receiver for $695, and
one for $895. It just doesn't get any cheaper than that. (Make sure
to call the places, because the website price was $1595) The only
thing that I'm unsure of is if you get a free antenna upgrade as
well as the receiver, and the antennas on the new units are $659
List Price (actual dealer pricing may be lower), so you may end
up re-purchasing a new antenna at a later date. But, you would
save the $3000-3688 on the receiver.
Also, I just got a mailing that said we should verify our mailing
addresses by June 15th for the receiver swap, so I would assume
that if you plan to do this, you should act extremely fast and buy
and activate something right way. You don't have to actually
power it up and activate it, just activate your plan.
I thought some of you would find this tip useful. I know the
2 guys who got to get those cheap receivers are thrilled.
--
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying
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