"Bjarke M. Christensen" bjarkeNG@grevestrand_punktum_danmark wrote in
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Does it make sense ??



None of the receivers make any sense, actually. They don't tell "THEM",
up there on the bridge 200' above the sea and 150' above your mast, that
you are THERE and going THIS WAY. No alarms go off as they STILL CAN'T
SEE YOU! So, none of these receivers make any sense.

What DOES make sense is for a boat TRANSPONDER to make YOU a target on
THEIR plotter to be reckoned with. You would set off the alarm long
before you were pushed under the bow waves and into the screws. He
wouldn't have to try to "see" you down below the level of the containers
piled high on the deck in front of him for 950 feet. He could "see" you,
who you are, WHAT YOUR BOAT NAME AND CALLSIGN IS, where you're headed,
your course and speed, right on his automatic plotting board. Armed with
this information, he'd CALL YOU on VHF to warn you to get the hell out of
his way.

Until we bleed all the big yachts for thousands and thousands of dollars
http://store.milltechmarine.com/acrglaistr.html
and allow the Chinese electronics companies to send TRANSPONDERS to the
yachtie countries, like the USA and Danmark, that don't cost any more
than any other overpriced VHF radio at some marine electronics
shop.....you won't be a target on his plotter and be on your own.

Pity.....

Larry
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