"WBH" wrote in
:

The only way to resolve
this is to use a device which can 'convert' the baudrate from 38400 to
4800 bps

Wouldn't this soon be overrun with data pouring in at 38400 and dripping
out at 4800? If there's a lot of AIS targets, is 4800 fast enough to keep
the converter memory from being overrun??