Moonshadow wrote in news:46becafc$1_3
@news.chariot.net.au:

Based on the results of this report it is recommended that yachtsmen
always
fit a radar reflector that offers the largest RCS practicable for their
vessel.


http://www.shinemicro.com/RadarPlusSM162B.asp

Too bad some powerful entities are causing the FCC to drag its
bureaucratic feet on approval of this AIS TRANSPONDER that makes your
little sailboat look like an aircraft carrier, setting off all the
collision alarms on that 950' containership with the half-asleep seaman
at the helm, waking him up.

It will be most interesting to watch "them" telling the Admiralty Court
why they didn't have the Class B targets turned on on the ships REQUIRED
AIS system. It would seem that "We didn't see him.", the normal excuse
for being run down by the ships, now all AIS equipped, would be moot if
you had a real transponder firing away to the horizon.

If I were a ship owner or insurer, exposed for the lawsuits, I'd be
damned sure __ALL__ AIS targets would be displayed and acted upon on all
my ships. It makes good business sense.



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