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"Steve Lusardi" wrote:

Thanks Larry, good research, but this now opens another pandora's box. If
you have a Ships Station license and your equipment is all IMO approved
equipment, even though your vessel size does not require IMO/SOLAS
compliance, will I now be subject to the periodic inspection and
recertification rules these compliances demand? My gut feeling is yes.
Steve

Ok, Here is the "Straight from the HORSE's Mouth, No ****, Poop" on
licensing AIS in the USA. I talked to the Wireless Rules Guy, himself...
AND.... Wait for it..... to be very frank, the term "Dufus" comes to
mind.

Larry is certainly CORRECT... someone back in FCC DC HQ is thinking like
a Bureaucrat, and not an Engineer, or Regulator....

1. AIS "IS" Covered by the Blanket US Waters Only VHF Marine License....
so it MAY be fitted to any US Vessel, with or WITHOUT a Ship Station
License.
a. MMSI would be issued by Boats USA or one of the civilian MMSI
Registrars.

b. Callsign can be either, some Old Callsign that the vessel had
previously, OR, something you MAKE UP, yourself.... No ****... that is
what Mr. FCC said....

2. As a Transponder, it requires NO Operators License, the same as a
Marine SART. for Radar.

3. This is for ALL AIS Transponders, of Either Class, fitted aboard a US
Flagged, Documented, non-Documented, or State Registered or unregistered
Vessel.

I really can't believe, that this, is how it it is, BUT THAT IS, "WHAT
the Guy SAID".....

SO, untill things change, That is the State of AIS, in the USofA....

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Bruce in alaska
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