AIS and MarineTraffic

[Jamie Dundee]

For the last 10 years I have never been able to see my boat on Marine Traffic or Vessel Finder once I enter the channel between the hills which leads to the marina. The signal is always lost about 1/2 mile out.

I turned on my AIS a few hours ago just to test it and I've just checked on Marina Traffic. As usual, none of the half dozen boats in the marina which are broadcasting are visible. However, on Vessel Finder, all the boats in the marina with a signal, including mine, are all visible.

It wasn't like this last year but things have obviously changed.

Richard

It’s worth checking out your local land stations. My AIS apparently stopped working during the winter, until I noticed my local beacon was down. I had a chat with the guy who owns it, he hadn’t realised it had stopped working. Required a software update by all accounts.

Green good, yellow not so, and red goosed.