Pascal,
why do you keep speaking of Garmin proprietary AIS? Do you have any evidence? Garmin is not a specialist manufacturer of communications equippement.... and anyway, all AIS receivers use the same output format and protocoll (NMEA VDM). So if you are interested in one, go and buy it, they are out there starting at 200,- bucks....
And if Garmin doesn't realise the importance of AIS-support for their plotters, they'll soon loose significant market share anyway...
Holger
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Originally Posted by Pascal
One very interesting thing is that the WXM smart satelite antena is
pluged in the USB port of Map376C; pheraps, if/when Garmin unveils its
proprietary AIS receiver, it can be pluged too, to the USB port of
Map376C and, hopefully in the GpsMap 276C, as to me, appears that
the hwardware of these 2 units are identical...
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