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Yacht sunk by Ferry
Peter Hendra wrote in
: Any idea what they cost and is there a fee involved or do you the American tax payer foot the bill as you so generously do for GPS? http://www.sailwx.info/aisinformation.html http://www.panbo.com/yae/archives/001174.html Panbo says they're coming out with one from UK for under $US500 for pleasure boats. If the manufacturers knew AIS transponders were going to be REQUIRED on every yacht, not just a few where they may lose their shirts, the competition would drop prices like a rock. The ship owners want to keep small boats from having AIS, probably because the victims of the crashes don't survive to SUE THEIR ASSES.... http://www.dolphinmaritime.com/hardware/csb200.html HACSB200 Class B transponder - 525 British pounds. Only puts out 1-4 watts, not 12.5w. 4W will give it plenty of range to a ship's tall antenna, but may cause crashing with other 12W stations who cannot hear it that are in range. That would make the packets crash as it wouldn't have a timeslot reserved on ALL the radios to the horizon....not good. http://www.euronav.co.uk/PriceList/L...istLeisure.htm Euronav has the same CSB200 transponder for EU425 w/o VAT. It pays to shop the internet....(c; http://www.sevenstarelectronics.com/ Sevenstar thinks theirs, "USCG approved" whatever that means, is worth $1000. It looks like it was made in someone's garage. http://www.diytrade.com/directory/gl...ts/414991.html The Communists have a full 12W Class A for $2000 with all the capabilities of a ship AIS....overkill for a sailboat. It will do AIS messaging, too. Larry -- |
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