Red Cloud© wrote in
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Only if you mount it directly in front of the VHF so you can't turn
the knobs!



Oh, funny, FUNNY!....(C;

No, Nick. Just don't let it near your VHF antenna and it'll be fine. The
ships won't see it, anyways, because you can't get it high enough to be in
their radar's vertical beamwidth when you need it most....when the are very
close to you. They'll see it when you are 3-5 miles away, if they're
looking.

This is why I think pleasure boat AIS transponders will be just fantastic.
Even around that next bend in the ICW, an AIS equipped ship will plainly
see where you are, who you are and know your boat's name and callsign and
MMSI....not just "White fiberglass sloop in the channel near bouy 14, this
is Sealand Performance, ovah?"....like it is now. Your AIS beacon will set
off his bridge alarms so just maybe he won't run you over in the fog.

--
Larry