matt1
Well-known member
When not sailing I can often be found lurking on marine traffic being nosey about what vessels are out there, doing what etc
There seems to be good coverage around the south coast ...except for when I look at my own boat which appears to disappear whenever I leave the Solent. I’ve tracked a mate most of the way across the channel before with the same standard ais tx set up as me, albeit my aerial is on a much taller mast. To be fair, I would expect the signal to be lost once offshore, but how is it that some are tracked further afield. MarineTraffic is awash with boats through the channel. As an example, when I got home last night and looked on MarineTraffic I saw that it didn’t have any positions for me at all in Christchurch bay after leaving the needles channel
There seems to be good coverage around the south coast ...except for when I look at my own boat which appears to disappear whenever I leave the Solent. I’ve tracked a mate most of the way across the channel before with the same standard ais tx set up as me, albeit my aerial is on a much taller mast. To be fair, I would expect the signal to be lost once offshore, but how is it that some are tracked further afield. MarineTraffic is awash with boats through the channel. As an example, when I got home last night and looked on MarineTraffic I saw that it didn’t have any positions for me at all in Christchurch bay after leaving the needles channel