My ICOM radio has the posibility to put on a GPS screen the position of
another ship (brought back by a position request signal). ICOM has a very
instructive video on the subject at:
http://www.icomamerica.com/marine/video/

Does someone know if we can do the same with Fugawi or Nobelter navigation
softwares ?


Cheers

André

"André Langevin" wrote in
:

My ICOM radio has the posibility to put on a GPS screen the position
of another ship (brought back by a position request signal). ICOM
has a very instructive video on the subject at:
http://www.icomamerica.com/marine/video/

Does someone know if we can do the same with Fugawi or Nobelter
navigation softwares ?


Cheers

André


Sure. Hook the Icom's NMEA output stream to your NMEA network, keeping in
mind that only ONE talker can be on a NMEA circuit, which may require you
to buy a NMEA multiplexer for all the talkers to talk to. Using Icom M802
HF/SSB and M602 VHF aboard Lionheart all connected to NMEA through a Noland
multiplexer, here. I had the M802 scanning DSC channels while I was
checking out the NMEA network and electronics at the dock one day. I heard
one of the chart plotters beep and went to see there was a new point on the
chart off the French coast! The Cap'n had to go to its CD ROM for the
chart, but showed the position of the ship that had declared an emergency
on the GMDSS system (only engine room flooding...pumps were losing it). It
was the first time I had got to see how our system reacted to an HF DSC fix
for a real emergency.

Sure wish the boating industry would dump this stupid NMEA system with only
one talker on a network. The industry is WAY behind reality. Just
remember that only ONE talker can be on any NMEA cable with a bunch of
listeners receiving data at a time. This keeps lots of people from hooking
up their radio's data outputs to their systems. Very unfortunate.

Larry W4CSC
S/V Lionheart
Amel Sharki cruising ketch
WDB6254 MMSI 366920680

Larry,

I just check with Nobeltec, Maptech and Fugawi and some others small
Navigation software builder and NOBODY support NMEA DSC sentences yet. So i
sold my Fugawi and bought a Garmin GPSmap172c instead.

Bye bye PC !!!

If you got a signal from DSC it might be a chartplotter not a PC with a
navigation software.

cheers
"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
"André Langevin" wrote in
:

My ICOM radio has the posibility to put on a GPS screen the position
of another ship (brought back by a position request signal). ICOM
has a very instructive video on the subject at:
http://www.icomamerica.com/marine/video/

Does someone know if we can do the same with Fugawi or Nobelter
navigation softwares ?


Cheers

André


Sure. Hook the Icom's NMEA output stream to your NMEA network, keeping in
mind that only ONE talker can be on a NMEA circuit, which may require you
to buy a NMEA multiplexer for all the talkers to talk to. Using Icom M802
HF/SSB and M602 VHF aboard Lionheart all connected to NMEA through a
Noland
multiplexer, here. I had the M802 scanning DSC channels while I was
checking out the NMEA network and electronics at the dock one day. I
heard
one of the chart plotters beep and went to see there was a new point on
the
chart off the French coast! The Cap'n had to go to its CD ROM for the
chart, but showed the position of the ship that had declared an emergency
on the GMDSS system (only engine room flooding...pumps were losing it).
It
was the first time I had got to see how our system reacted to an HF DSC
fix
for a real emergency.

Sure wish the boating industry would dump this stupid NMEA system with
only
one talker on a network. The industry is WAY behind reality. Just
remember that only ONE talker can be on any NMEA cable with a bunch of
listeners receiving data at a time. This keeps lots of people from
hooking
up their radio's data outputs to their systems. Very unfortunate.

Larry W4CSC
S/V Lionheart
Amel Sharki cruising ketch
WDB6254 MMSI 366920680

"André Langevin" wrote in
:

Larry,

I just check with Nobeltec, Maptech and Fugawi and some others small
Navigation software builder and NOBODY support NMEA DSC sentences yet.
So i sold my Fugawi and bought a Garmin GPSmap172c instead.

Bye bye PC !!!

If you got a signal from DSC it might be a chartplotter not a PC with
a navigation software.

Interesting. Showed up as a waypoint on our system. I'll have to go back
to Icom to see what the M802 is putting out. Thanks.

Larry

Larry the ICOM 802 i have is outputing NMEA 3.0 DSC formatted sentences that
only some chartplotters can understand. In fact i've been yelling at
software companies all over the world for support of position output on
their software and sorry not available yet.

Only a handfull of GPSmap and plotter supports it. I changed my GPS 152 for
GPSmap 172C in order to have DSC plotting. Here is the answer i've received
from Garmin as to which model supports DSC:


cheers !

Dear Andre,

Thank you for contacting Garmin International. Unfortunately, the GPS152
will not have the DSC compatibilities. The unit's that can be hooked up to a
VHF radio supporting DSC are the GPSMAP 172C, 182, 182C, 232, 2006, 2006C,
2010 and the 2010C. The GPSMAP Sounders 178C, 188, 188C and the 238 models.
Our top of the line GPSMAP 3006C and 3010C (available late this quarter)
will also have this abilities

Please note that all the units above will need the most up to date software
inside. With the newest updated 5.3 version in the units above can do the
DSC feature straight from the Main Menu off your unit.

It is very easy. You will need to contact your local navcen for the MMSI
number. The MMSI number serves as both a nine digit "telephone number" and
as a unique identification number for the U.S. Coast Guard to use in order
to locate and identify you in an emergency (DSC call). During normal
communications, vessels with DSC capable radios may call each other over
channel 70 using the MMSI as a "telephone number" (appears as Position
Report on our plotters). The signal will only be received by those vessels
with the MMSI numbers that were called. During an emergency, the boater may
push a button to automatically transmit a May Day call which would include
their MMSI number (and location if the radio is linked to a GPS receiver) to
every DSC radio within range. When the U.S. Coast Guard receives the unique
MMSI number, it will use the information on file (emergency contact number,
type of vessel, etc.) to mount a more effective rescue effort.

For more information regarding MMSIs, visit:
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/gmdss/mmsi.htm





"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
"André Langevin" wrote in
:

Larry,

I just check with Nobeltec, Maptech and Fugawi and some others small
Navigation software builder and NOBODY support NMEA DSC sentences yet.
So i sold my Fugawi and bought a Garmin GPSmap172c instead.

Bye bye PC !!!

If you got a signal from DSC it might be a chartplotter not a PC with
a navigation software.

Interesting. Showed up as a waypoint on our system. I'll have to go back
to Icom to see what the M802 is putting out. Thanks.

Larry

"André Langevin" wrote in
:

Larry the ICOM 802 i have is outputing NMEA 3.0 DSC formatted
sentences that only some chartplotters can understand. In fact i've
been yelling at software companies all over the world for support of
position output on their software and sorry not available yet.

Only a handfull of GPSmap and plotter supports it. I changed my GPS
152 for GPSmap 172C in order to have DSC plotting. Here is the answer
i've received from Garmin as to which model supports DSC:


I wonder if our Raymarine RL70CRC, which is also tied back into the
multiplexer, could be the source of the waypoint data for The Cap'n
software. Waypoint output is turned on on the RL70, I think. I might try
to isolate it to see if it is the source, if I get the time.

Looks like they are all dragging their feet in implementing what amounts to
a simple software upgrade for the computer programs on the PCs.....same as
always.

Larry