Emtrak R100 help (Shore Station AIS contributor)

[Bertonumber1]

Hello guys n girls,

I've been a member for a while and haven't really posted before now.
I am a licensed amateur in Scotland UK and have been uploading to numerous AIS websites covering the Firth of Clyde and River Clyde areas.

My PC / rtl-sdr radio / AIS antenna station has seen better days so I bought an emtrak r100 as an upgrade and am completely baffled.

I would like to use the receiver solely on the pc however I understand I need some form of adapter cable to feed AIS dispatcher/NMEA.
If I read correctly this adapter is an RS422 NMEA Serial to USB adapter cable and would let me connect the receiver to a 13.8v power supply
(vhf radio) and feed opencpn with the data from the receiver?
I have learned that the supplied USB is only for entering details into the receiver (mmsi, /proais2 etc)

I am beginning to have my doubts if it is even possible to run the receiver solely on the Windows 10 pc I have, do any of you folk have any experience with this.

Any help or advice is appreciated TIA

Regards

Rob

 

[matt1]

Sorry can’t help you but can vouch for Emtrak’s support being very good and I’m sure they will be happy to help you. I’ve had to deal with them on a couple of occasions (most recently a couple of weeks ago) and they sorted my problems within a day or two

 

[TopBanana]

The USB connection provides a virtual COM port in Windows, but you may need to configure it first using ProAIS2.