ACR was advertizing a class b AIS transponder at the Seattle boat
show and they claim it is available in Canada for about $1000. This
includes the vhf and gps antennas. They don't sell in the US because
they haven't been approved yet in the US!
Gordon

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Gordon wrote:

ACR was advertizing a class b AIS transponder at the Seattle boat
show and they claim it is available in Canada for about $1000. This
includes the vhf and gps antennas. They don't sell in the US because
they haven't been approved yet in the US!
Gordon

Simrad's (now a Navico brand) AI50 is about the same, including an own
display - not yet ratified in the US on non-technical reasons I guess.

Marc

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"Roger Long" wrote:

"Marc Heusser" d wrote

display - not yet ratified in the US on non-technical reasons I guess.

Same reasons the Coast Guard isn't listening for DSC distress calls. Same
reasons that, despite the over hyped but still vital needs of homeland
security, billions were spent on new vessels for the USCG without getting so
much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. Even worse to be paying for.

I do not envy you on that - what a pity for such a wonderful land.

Marc

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Marc Heusser wrote:
In article ,
"Roger Long" wrote:

"Marc Heusser" d wrote

display - not yet ratified in the US on non-technical reasons I guess.
Same reasons the Coast Guard isn't listening for DSC distress calls. Same
reasons that, despite the over hyped but still vital needs of homeland
security, billions were spent on new vessels for the USCG without getting so
much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. Even worse to be paying for.

I do not envy you on that - what a pity for such a wonderful land.

All that and still the best country in the world.

Stephen

Stephen Trapani wrote:essels for the USCG
without getting so much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. Even worse to be paying for.

I do not envy you on that - what a pity for such a wonderful land.

All that and still the best country in the world.

In your eyes, not in a good many others.

Cheers
Marty, Living in the True North

Marty wrote:
Stephen Trapani wrote:essels for the USCG
without getting so much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. Even worse to be paying for.

I do not envy you on that - what a pity for such a wonderful land.

All that and still the best country in the world.

In your eyes, not in a good many others.

No, not in my eyes, objectively, by any reasonable measure.

Stephen

"Stephen Trapani" wrote in message
...
Marty wrote:
Stephen Trapani wrote:essels for the USCG
without getting so much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. Even worse to be paying for.

I do not envy you on that - what a pity for such a wonderful land.

All that and still the best country in the world.

In your eyes, not in a good many others.

No, not in my eyes, objectively, by any reasonable measure.

Stephen


Remember the light bulb joke... how many Americans does it take to screw in
a light bulb... just one. He puts the bulb in the socket and the world
revolves around him.

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On Jan 27, 1:43*pm, "Roger Long" wrote:
"Marc Heusser" d wrote

display - not yet ratified in the US on non-technical reasons I guess.

Same reasons the Coast Guard isn't listening for DSC distress calls. *Same
reasons that, despite the over hyped but still vital needs of homeland
security, billions were spent on new vessels for the USCG without getting so
much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. *Even worse to be paying for.

--
Roger Long

Oh come on Roger..What's 94 million dollars and 8 cutters trashed ?
It's not like the 8th district is short on vessels and refusing to go
out in rough weather is it?

Joe

Stephen Trapani wrote:
Marty wrote:
Stephen Trapani wrote:essels for the USCG
without getting so much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. Even worse to be paying for.

I do not envy you on that - what a pity for such a wonderful land.

All that and still the best country in the world.

In your eyes, not in a good many others.

No, not in my eyes, objectively, by any reasonable measure.

Not according the UN, or many other studies. Tell me that your life
expectancy is the longest in the world, that you have the lowest rate of
infant mortality, that you have the highest rate of literacy, that you
have the greatest percentage of population with decent health care, that
you have the lowest rate of violent crime on the planet, that you have
the lowest rate of recidivism, that you have the most civil liberties,
that you have the most open government.... the list is huge.

Objective? I don't think so.

Cheers
Marty

Capt. JG wrote:
In your eyes, not in a good many others.
No, not in my eyes, objectively, by any reasonable measure.

Stephen


Remember the light bulb joke... how many Americans does it take to screw in
a light bulb... just one. He puts the bulb in the socket and the world
revolves around him.



Certainly seems apt in Stephen's case, many Germans thought his way in
1938....

Cheers
Marty