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Gordon wrote in
m: 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. |
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Larry wrote:
Gordon wrote in m: 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 . . . |
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IanM wrote in news:gj8sus$19ag$1
@energise.enta.net: Will it happen? Not while the pork is going elsewhere . . . The pork here goes into a long line of replacement main gates. God CG is proud of that slot to the street. The just replaced it, AGAIN, not long ago. It's probably another $500K in next years budget. |
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