AIS compatibility

[pvb]

As you say, my XB8000 has a separate antenna which connects to the AIS unit with a coax cable. If it were a full GPS receiver, wouldn't that have to connect to the AIS unit through NMEA and wouldn't that mean that any NMEA GPS signal could be inputted which might not be dedicated, and I didn't think that was permitted?

Well, just as an example, the Icom MA-500TR transceiver is supplied with a MX-5000 GPS receiver.

 

[RichardS]

Well, just as an example, the Icom MA-500TR transceiver is supplied with a MX-5000 GPS receiver.

That's interesting. I can't find out much about the MX-5000 but it seems that it does output NMEA GPS so the only thing preventing any GPS source being used with the AIS unit is probably a proprietary input socket on the unit which wouldn't be too difficult to circumvent.

Richard