"Pascal" skrev i en meddelelse
ups.com...
Do not worry about waht he says in the begining, because he writes as
a diary, he do not updates/re-writes the text, but if you folow the
articels along the time, you will see that his information is updated
or not so outdated as you think.

Pascal

Sorry if my comment was interpreted as some kind of critique ..., I was
just trying to make a joke about the misspelling in the introduction of
the year John was planning "the big tour": Year 20.054 ... that is a
pretty solid time frame ... ;o) ...

I have now spent several hours following his thoughts, ideas, decisions,
and implementations (jumping around - following the different links),
and I am learning a lot ... Not that I can or will do all the things
myself, but I do get a lot of inspiration and insight in a world, that
is pretty new to me. So I find the many pages most useful! I'm really
impressed with the way he has illustrated and documented the whole
proces. It must have taken *a lot* of time - and I can sit in front of
my PC and get the results of several years of thinking, trying, testing,
experimenting, and experience in a matter of a few hours ... amazing ...
I'm very happy with this link!

Unfortunately, I've been told, that my chartplotter (Raymarine C530+)
cannot handle AIS input like his Raymarine multi-instrument-monitor,
(the Raymarine C120 using Navionics cards) - and there should be no
plans to develop an "AIS-interface" to my model. Therefore, I can not
do what John has done integration wise ... may be there will be an
interface one day who knows? ... In the meantime, I will continue my
learning proces with the SOB-package, find a suitable AIS engine, and a
VHF splitter, (that will not destroy my AIS engine (SIC!)) and play with
the system on my notebook PC ... Today, I use the only seriel port on
the PC to get the NMEA stream of data from the GPSvia RS232 ... The
C-map chart reader is using a USB interface, but it would be nice, if
the SOB application on the PC could "read" the charts from the
chartplotter via the hsb2 interface between the chartplotter and the PC.
In that way, I would have a full functioning/integrated "Raymarine
SeaTalk-system" plus a separate AIS application using the SOB package
with the monitor showing the C-map charts and the AIS data - visible
from the helm ... I will then have to figure out how also to get the
seriel input from the AIS engine into the PC ... May be via USB? Or a
multiplexor? If I'm not mistaken, Meindert will have an answer to that
....

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Flemming Torp
Gimle/DEN-61