richardbrennan
Well-known member
I am sure many of you will have seen the article in the news section of Yachting Monthly concerning AIS virtual buoys. I have a Digital Yacht AIT2000 transponder which is linked by NMEA 2000 to a Garmin 5012 plotter. According to the article, the Digital Yacht AIS should receive these virtual markers, so I phoned Garmin to see if my plotter would display them. I got an answer that has confused me in that what I was told was that the plotter would display them, but just as another target, and the individual I spoke to clearly thought that there would be something physical at the location generating the signal, which is rather at odds with the whole concept. The other question that springs to mind is what is the likely range of such beacons, which I realise will to some extent will be dependent on my aerial height, but how and where are such signals generated?
All help gratefully received!
All help gratefully received!