Boat Name on AIS Tranciever

Ningaloo said:
Can you advise what Simrad display you have? Interesting that this is colour coded when B&G say this can't be done.
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Sorry, I have misled you! It is on the internet Marine Traffic AIS that I was talking about, my bad. The Simrad just shows black triangles for everything.
 
Ningaloo said:
I guess you are not sailing in areas with commercial shipping. AIS is pretty much expected to be used by traffic contacting VTS to cross the entrance of Europort , and a major asset for any Channel crossing. It is also mandatory for all boats to have a transponder in many parts of the world where there is significant commercial traffic (e.g. Singapore).
You can also use the AIS to call up another vessel, either by voice using the vessel name or callsign from the AIS details or automatically using the MFD DSC call functions.
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I currently sail out of Plymouth, UK a civil and military port.. As a non commercial vessel there is no requirement to transmit an AIS position.
 
RichardS said:
Errrr ..... GPS antenna rather than VHF.

(already covered above)

Richard
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I don't know whether the AIS gets its position from, whether it is internal or from the aerial. Its own case seems too small, but in any case, my chart table is not 10m from the bow as my indicated size suggests. I understand that the set has its own GPS and doesn't use the position from the plotter.
 
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johnalison said:
I don't know whether the AIS gets its position from, whether it is internal or from the aerial. Its own case seems too small, but in any case, my chart table is not 10m from the bow as my indicated size suggests. I understand that the set has its own GPS and doesn't use the position from the plotter.
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AIS transmit is not allowed to use networked gps, ie from plotter etc on NMEA2k. It either has its own built in gps antenna or a dedicated external one.
 
PaulRainbow said:
What AIS do you have ?
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We had a thread a few weeks ago where the poster said that all the fields on his AIS unit had to be erased by the manufacturer, unlike mine where it is only the MMSI field which is read-only, although I do know the code to reset even that.

I thought that it seemed rather unlikely so I checked on line and, apparently, the forumite was quite correct and none of the fields were user editable once entered. It seems to be a very restrictive reading of the AIS regulations.

Richard
 
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Jamie Dundee said:
Simrad RS40B combined vhf/AIS transponder. Luckily my local agent is just down the road and I know him quite well so I’ll get the memory wiped when the boat comes out in a couple of weeks.
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Thanks Jamie, i have yet to come across one where the data, other than MMSI number could not be user changed. This is Navico again, same as the B&G stuff already mentioned. Someone there wants a kick up the bum.
 
RichardS said:
We had a thread a few weeks ago where the poster said that all the fields on his AIS unit had to be erased by the manufacturer, unlike mine where it is only the MMSI field which is read-only, although I do know the code to reset even that.

I thought that it seemed rather unlikely so I checked on line and, apparently, the forumite was quite correct and none of the fields were user editable once entered. It seems to be a very restrictive reading of the AIS regulations.

Richard
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What make was that one Richard ?
 
using Expedition - the PC racing nav program.., one can choose the color for any AIS target.

i think this feature is limited to about 10 targets, but i'm sure that if more were desired, the developer would change it.

mostly i use this to track competitors. it's useful even in races where there is "official" tracking, like say yellowbrick, because the AIS updates much more frequently

typically what i will do, is color the boats in my class.., and maybe friends or other boats i care about in other classes. In a race with many boats, and a crowded display, this makes it easy to spot the boats i need to keep track of - i know right away if they tack...

Another feature of Expedition is that it will display the AIS data from competitors in the "number boxes" to the side of the chart display - so i can always have, for example, a competitor's SOG or COG displayed without having to mouse on the target. Their AIS data gets logged, and can be used to calculate longer term averages and so on.

I do occasionally see boats that put "SV" in the vessel name.
 
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