On 19 Jun 2005 17:32:04 -0700, "Pascal" wrote:

Any news about the test of 276C with the NASA AIS engine? The 3.30
update for the 276C is out and tested...

I noticed the new firmware upgrade, but haven't had a chance to do anything
about it.

I might be going to stay in a seaside hotel next weekend so will probably try
to get the 276C upgraded before then for my trip, and also plan to take my
AIS receiver if I can get a room on the 10th floor or above to see what sort
of reception I get.

If I get those 2 operating I'll also try to connect the 2.

Dave

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My friend, hwo have bough a Nasa AIS Engine send me today an NMEA
message file containing both his Gps and AIS receiver messages, so I
could make a simulation using the SeaClear software. I found it very
impressive, the software is very very good.

I think that if the NASA AIS Radar would have the option to output NMEA
messages like the cousin AIS Engine, I probabily would buy it now,
since I could use it in stand alone mode or alternatively or
simultaneously, use it as an AIS engine too.

Why the NASA does not make this? The stand alone unit could be obsolete
as soon appears a more sofisticated unit on the market, but having the
NMEA output option, it could survive this obsolence for some time, or
not?

Regards

Pascal

Well, normally people want either have a stand-alone unit or a black-box for use with PC. Or do you carry a (high-end) chartplotter and a mobile PC running vector charts?

Holger

www.yacht-ais.com

Well,

I have a laptop full of Navigation softwares and many charts of all
types (raster and vector) but I do not use it all the time for
navigation, I use it mainly to plan the routes at the port or navigate
in some easy situations (inshore motoring) and where I do not have the
corresponding electronic chart in the Gps Plotter and I do not have
the necessary paper charts. But do not want to use the laptop on my 36
ft boat when I am sailing at nigth in heavy weather, wich is the
situation I probabily would need an AIS ploter.

I do not know of any other Chart Ploter wich supprts AIS receiver
unless the new Si-Tex units, so I could consider an interim solution
with the NASA AIS Radar, IF it have the NMEA output too. I already
have 3 Gps Plotters from Garmin, so to buy now a Si-Tex would add a
fouth gps/ploter to the boat, wich is not my option.

Regards

Pascal


Holger escreveu:
Well, normally people want either have a stand-alone unit or a black-box
for use with PC. Or do you carry a (high-end) chartplotter and a mobile
PC running vector charts?

Holger

www.yacht-ais.com


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Holger

Hi Pascal,

I got your point... but my connections within the AIS world are quite sure that NASA won't release a AIS display with NMEA output, at least not soon. They want to keep both products cheap and adding features that most won't need (see above) will just rise the price....

Cheers,

Holger

www.yacht-ais.com

Many if not all comercial AIS transponder Class A have a Radar lik
display and send NMEA data to ECDIS ploters ...

You are right, but they are mandated by IEC and ITU to have such an interface. And they are a LOT more expensive....
NASA display does not fall under this legislation....

Holger

I can be wrong, but to include in NASA AIS radar serial port to output
NMEA AIS messages it already have procesed, I think could not be so
expensive .... and double the usefull of the unit ...