AIS Transmit options?

[Rafiki]

If your existing equipment is Raymarine Pete, the Em-Trak is fitted with a devicenet connector (standard NMEA 2000), so you can use a STNg to N2K adaptor cable, very straight forward.

Paul,
I will ask you as the font of all knowledge. Like Pete I'm thinking of installing an Em-Trak, what sort of connector do I need to attach it to My Lowrance ST2000 network ( The network is only the Lowrance Elite Plotter Fishfinder and a Lowrance VHF/AIS receiver.

Andrew

 

[PaulRainbow]

Paul,
I will ask you as the font of all knowledge.

Blimey, wouldn't go that far Andrew, although i do tell my wife that's the case (she always laughs though)

Like Pete I'm thinking of installing an Em-Trak, what sort of connector do I need to attach it to My Lowrance ST2000 network ( The network is only the Lowrance Elite Plotter Fishfinder and a Lowrance VHF/AIS receiver.

Andrew

The Elite plotter is standard NMEA 2000, so you just need an NMEA 2000 cable, nothing special.

 

[matt1]

I has assumed that you had set the port, my bad. I've never messed around with SD cards to get the Em-Trak to send data, perhaps they have created a simple cfg file to make it easier for people.

All i've ever done is to tell the AIS which sentence to output, using the AIS-Pro software, which you must have used to program the MMSI etc. The Furuno should work OK with the GGA sentence. I would try without the cfg file first. If you do use the cfg file, not the settings before using it and see what it changes, i'd be interested to hear what it does.

I would expect the Furuno to cope with the Em-Trak output, without a converter. I've connected some very old Furuno equipment to modern systems and they have always worked, so fingers crossed. A lot of NMEA 0183 equipment only followed the "rules" very loosely, it mostly worked.

It works! Thanks Paul. The guys at Em-Track were great with support too.

By default it doesn't export NMEA data on the 2nd NMEA 0183 port and the config file is required to do so, Their FAQ says to download the config file to "any SD card upto 2gb" whereas in fact the config file would only download to an actual 2GB SD card. Once that was known the wiring was exactly as you said! As you can see I'm not getting date and time and Spd was blank (possibly as the boat was stationery) but am very happy to have managed to get posn data repeated. Thanks again, much appreciated!

 

[PaulRainbow]

It works! Thanks Paul. The guys at Em-Track were great with support too.

By default it doesn't export NMEA data on the 2nd NMEA 0183 port and the config file is required to do so, Their FAQ says to download the config file to "any SD card upto 2gb" whereas in fact the config file would only download to an actual 2GB SD card. Once that was known the wiring was exactly as you said! As you can see I'm not getting date and time and Spd was blank (possibly as the boat was stationery) but am very happy to have managed to get posn data repeated. Thanks again, much appreciated!

Thanks for the feedback Matt, glad it's all working for you :encouragement: