Well Daniel, you should be able to sail ship without an AIS so it basicly
only for convinience and fun. And stepping up from a one channel receiver
(like nasa) to a 2 ch scanning receiver is already quite advanced taken the
fact that it's for fun.

I wouldnt aim higher than the Easy AIS. In fact I find it quite attractive.
It even comes with a splitter for you to utilise your existing VHF antenna.

However I've seen it cheaper than the provided link.

Bjarke


"Daniele Fua" wrote in message
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I am looking around for an AIS receiver, good and not too expensive. I am
a sail cruiser. Is there any strong reason for buying a true 2 parallel
channel receiver? I found this receiver
http://www.yachtbits.com/easyais/eas...s_receiver.php
which appears to be quite good but it is not clear whether it is truly
parallel or duplexing.
Any advice?

Regards
Daniel