"Paul" skrev i en meddelelse
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I am displaying the AIS targets on my PocketPC, which is usually
velcro'd to the navstation next to the chartplotter. I have a
Bluetooth link from the AIS receiver and the NMEA mux which carries
the rest of the nav-data. My Raymarine RL70 and RL80 chartplotters
(now obsolete) don't support AIS, thus the PocketPC.
The PPC, running a program I wrote, has a display (for AIS) that looks
more or less like the NASA "AIS Radar", with no chart overlay. It
still gets pretty crowded, but I can turn off ship name display and
then it is usable during crowded conditions. The PPC calculates CPA,
TCPA, sounds an alarm if appropriate, etc -- all the stuff that I
expect my new chartplotters to do well, on a much larger screen. The
PPC program also shows other nav data, using dials, numeric displays,
etc. I mainly use it as a "black box" to log filtered nav and AIS
data, so I can postprocess it later and remind myself (when I am
programming) of how much I enjoy sailing. I have some interesting (to
me, at least) Google-Earth tracks created from the PPC logfiles,
posted on the VALIS blog: http://www.sailvalis.com/wordpress_1/ . The
most recent posting has the tracks for VALIS and the AIS-equipped
ships heard during the Queen Mary 2 excursion. I use the PPC rather
than a laptop for this in order to keep the power consumption under
control.
-Paul
Hi Paul,
I'm still most enthusiastic about your set up. Being an absolute
"electronic novice", unfortunately, I'll have to buy products in the
market, as I cannot programme or build the components myself. I'm not
sure, I can make myself clear in the following, but I do hope that you
get an idea of what I want (it's close to what you have implemented
yourself ...), but unfortunately I need products available "from the
shelf" ... as my experience in programming is pretty "rusty" and
primarily based on Cobol, Basic and Fortran programming on an IBM 7090
.... if you get the picture ...
I do have a PPC (Win-based), and I would like to add the functionality,
as you have described above ... As I have recently decided to install an
AIS receiver (SR161), and my chartplotter (Raymarine c530+) does not
support AIS, I would like to know whether you know of any software and
hardware products, that can be bought on the market, that will give the
same features and functionality, as you have described above.
My AIS system is not up and running yet, but I'we been adviced to
connect the AIS receiver to my notebook (WinXP) and use the SOB package
on my PC (I have downloaded and tried the SOB package on my laptop, and
it runs fine when using the USB C-Map chart reader, but I don't know yet
whether it will run the same, when the PC is connected to the
chartplotter via the hsb2 interface, i.e. when the charts are put into
the slots of the chartplotter and the PC connected to the c530+).
Is there a way to send - wireless - the content of the PC screen to the
PPC or do I need an application on the PPC as well? I suppose so ...
I understand, you have a blue tooth connection between the AIS receiver
and your PPC. As I'we never played with that, I would need a little help
he What type of equipment - at the AIS receiver and at the PPC - are
you using to make this work?
I also understand you are using your own programme. As this is
completely outside my ability my next question is: Is there a software
package for the PPC available on the market I could use? Is there any
possibility to use/transmit my C-Map charts running on the PC and/or on
the chartplotter (c530+) onto my PPC?
I do also have quite a few electronic BSB compatible charts from
Maptech, but I also understand, that the Maptech applications do not
support AIS ... right? Do you know of an application that runs on the PC
and the PPC, that can use BSB compatible charts *and* use the AIS data
send from the SR161?
Sorry for all these questions, but I'm in the very early phase of my
learning curve, and I did find your approach most interesting ...
Best regards
--
Flemming Torp
Gimle/DEN-61