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ocean crusing & anti collision tactics....
Well, AIS = Autmomatic Identification System
In stead of repeating others there is somegood info at: http://www.uais.org/87BStory.doc And as always I jumped in a bit too soon a small year ago. I "only" installed an AIS receiver where the AIS transponder is getting cheaper and almost reasonable. I bought the nasamarine engine thats connevted to a serial port of my pc. Together with SeaClear nav software the system is complete and functions well. I see my map, my own position, others together with the info I want presented. I still have to scrape the maps from my cracked Tsunamis '99 into Seaclear first but that's another matter. They also carry the nasamarine ais-radar, horribly wrong name of course but it is nifty. It has its own screen you can put up in the cockpit. take a look at http://www.nasamarine.com/AIS/AIS.html When you're interested in a transponder (so you'll be seen by others with a receiver or a transponer and that are awake) take a look on ebigchina site http://smartradio.ebigchina.com/sdp/...369-74856.html There are quite a few nav programs that support AIS. I use SeaClear now but I'm looking for a prog that can use my Transas World Folio 2000 so I won't have to copy and paste that much... But I'm not complaining.. Regards, Len S/v Present On 18 Oct 2005 10:07:14 -0700, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote: "what is "AIS" ? " or, is it a proprity (sp?) freq or system the "web page" owns?? thanx !! |