AIS receiver with USB connector

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quark-elec

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Having been using my old AIS receiver for a while and I found DB9 serial port is sometime a pain as less computer have DB9 port connector. I know there is few of AIS class B receivers support USB port, but none of them lower than 100 pounds, which is higher for lots of people, like me.
Now thinking to design one by myself. Anybody interesting in this project? Any comments are welecome.
 
The cases I ordered from Alibaba arrived yesterday. The circuit design will be ready next week. I hope I can get it working with my computer. No USB connector is really pain for me. 912.jpg
 
Garmin ais600 has usb but is much more than £100. If you can make one for around £100 I'll happily buy one ( for the tender' to keep tabs on it). Good luck
 
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Is this an attempt at a commercial offering? Apologies if I have got this wrong, but your user name and use of English point in that direction. If all kosher then I will happily eat my words.
 
Hello, this design was for my own boat as a hobby. If I am luck to get it work, I maybe build some more if anybody also interested in. Anyway, I have get a PCB manufacturer to build 10 boards and It should be back in the next few days.
 
quark-elec said:
Hello, this design was for my own boat as a hobby. If I am luck to get it work, I maybe build some more if anybody also interested in. Anyway, I have get a PCB manufacturer to build 10 boards and It should be back in the next few days.
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Good, very best of luck with this, and I too would be interested.
 
SteveSarabande said:
How will you keep tabs on the tender ifvit only has a receiver?
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I won't! I assumed (maybe wrongly, and I'll happily be corrected if so) that OP was talking about a transceiver, because he said class B in the first post. The class B description has no meaning for a receive-only unit; the mention of class B can only be relevant if you're talking about a transceiver. But if I've got the wrong end of OP's stick then you're right that this thing wont be much use to me!
 
Have you looked at the RTL SDR software defined radio projects
Here's an example
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-cheap-ais-ship-tracking/

I had a little play/experiment at the end of last year.
Very interesting but not really "turn key" enough and the kit wasn't really sensitive enough.
However, I did get it working - input into my desktop PC at home running OpenCPN.

But kit like this does fit the budget.

IMO, you need something like this to work on the PC/Mac platforms and also the Android which now has a robust build of OpenCPN that should integrate its AIS features very nicely.
I'd buy a portable AIS device like this if it was easy to set up and use.
 
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