Larry wrote:
Gordon wrote in
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Just hooked up my AIS receiver today and played with it a couple of
hours.
Trust me! You don't want ALL boats transmitting AIS!
I had 2 tugs tied up in the west end of the harbor. I had an
Alaskan
fisherman a few piers over. I had a tug assisting an anchor oiler
getting ready to leave. I had 2 pilot boats. I had a ferry. I had 3
big
guys transiting outside the harbor.
Now all this was fun to watch but throw in another ****load of
sportfishers and it would be chaos.
Gordon



Yeah, but you don't HAVE to have it on the 20 mile range in a boat going
10 knots. In reality, you only need to see the boats on the 3 mile
range, the ones you're crashing into in the fog. I never figured out
why a sailboat has an 8 mile radar....(c; He needs to see that bouy
he's about to run over. Now the government bureaucrats need to get off
their asses and install the FIXED STATION broadcasting all the bouys and
known obstructions a few times an hour so you KNOW that blip is bouy
"3b", not a fisherman.



Of course, the way AIS works, one fixed station on land nice and high up
like one of the CG aerials could 'paint' the position of *all* nav.
marks within line of sight on-screen on every AIS connected plotter
within range. Need to mark a new obstruction? No problem, tag it with a
virtual mark till you can get a work boat out to lay a buoy.

Will it happen? Not while the pork is going elsewhere . . .