In Praise of AIS

"Armond Perretta" <newsgroupreader@REMOVEbigfoot.com> wrote in news:-
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> I have had miles of wire and tons of electronics on my small sailing boat
> for quite some time

Wow! MY KIND OF CAPTAIN!....(c;

Just order the full transponder......You KNOW you want it....

.....we'll find room, somehow for the wires for it....(c;

"The system is not complete until all wireways are packed."

On Aug 1, 5:57 am, "Armond Perretta"
<newsgrouprea...@REMOVEbigfoot.com> wrote:
> I have had miles of wire and tons of electronics on my small sailing boat
> for quite some time, but only recently hooked up an AIS receiver (Smart
> Radio 162 feeding Capn 8.3))...

I am in the middle of hooking up my new AIS system. I have an
AISWatchmate hooked up to an SR 161 and have a pile of wire, solder
and DB9's on my desk. As soon as I deconstruct the furniture and pull
the wire I should have a computer link. Meanwhile I have the
Watchmate working. It was picking up 89 targets last night out to 80
miles while sitting at the dock here on the East shore of SF Bay. The
combination of the antenna splitter, 161 and watchmate take so little
power that I can't detect it over the noise with my clamp on amp
meter. All in all, it seems pretty cool on first blush.

-- Tom.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:09:01 -0700 (PDT), "tsmwebb@"
<tsmwebb@> wrote:

>On Aug 1, 5:57 am, "Armond Perretta"
><newsgrouprea...@REMOVEbigfoot.com> wrote:
>> I have had miles of wire and tons of electronics on my small sailing boat
>> for quite some time, but only recently hooked up an AIS receiver (Smart
>> Radio 162 feeding Capn 8.3))...
>
>I am in the middle of hooking up my new AIS system. I have an
>AISWatchmate hooked up to an SR 161 and have a pile of wire, solder
>and DB9's on my desk. As soon as I deconstruct the furniture and pull
>the wire I should have a computer link. Meanwhile I have the
>Watchmate working. It was picking up 89 targets last night out to 80
>miles while sitting at the dock here on the East shore of SF Bay. The
>combination of the antenna splitter, 161 and watchmate take so little
>power that I can't detect it over the noise with my clamp on amp
>meter. All in all, it seems pretty cool on first blush.
>
Who makes the Watchmate, and where can you get it?

On Aug 4, 4:33 am, "Armond Perretta" ...
> I mentioned Capn 8.3 above.  Works well enough, although it would be nice if
> the AIS target list display (1) provided an at-a-glance format with more
> complete information, and (2) could be modified to display selected data.

I've found Yacht-AIS while noodling around, too. It looks like a ppi
but true motion. I have the demo of the pro version and it is
interesting but quits so quickly that I have no idea how well it works
underway. Also, it is more money than I was hoping to spend...

-- Tom.