AIS Class B Tracker Options and Tips?

[[70521]]

This might be too late but a neat way to show your position is to use OnCourse from Marine Traffic. Your boat does need an MMSI number
It is an app that sends your phone's position to Marine Traffic and it integrates with the Marine Traffic map. Its free!
I find it useful to make sure people at home who are tracking my course can see me even when AIS coverage is poor

TS

But unless you have internet connection and looking at that page is as useful as a chocolate teapot at sea.

 

[prv]

But unless you have internet connection and looking at that page is as useful as a chocolate teapot at sea.

The OP explicitly didn’t want something on a phone, and has already bought a tracker, so the suggestion is no help for those reasons. But internet access isn’t a problem for a dayboat in the Solent.

Pete

 

[laika]

Just thought I’d let you all know what I’ve gone for since some people asked. In the end I went for this GPS tracker from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Standby-An...ML86/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&th=1

Thanks for the update. I see you can either query it by sms or "use the app". How does the app "work"? Does it essentially just repeatedly query the tracker and plot positions received back via sms on google maps? If that's the case, do you plan to somehow retrieve the position data to plot on a web site, and have you thought about scaling that to more than one boat (which you mentioned might be a plan)?