Connecting Standard Horizon GX2200E VHF to Raymarine C80 for AIS input

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Hello all,

Looking at a form of AIS receiver and quite like the idea of theStandard Horizon GX2200E VHF as it is all in one unit (as need to upgrade the fixed radio anyway).

So, if I buy this can I connect it up to my Raymarine C80, bearing in mind that the NMEA inout for the C80 is already taken by the smart heading sensor. So, can i use the radio AIS output in conjunction with a multiplexer to achieve my aim?

Regards

Dave
 
davethedog said:
Hello all,

Looking at a form of AIS receiver and quite like the idea of theStandard Horizon GX2200E VHF as it is all in one unit (as need to upgrade the fixed radio anyway).

So, if I buy this can I connect it up to my Raymarine C80, bearing in mind that the NMEA inout for the C80 is already taken by the smart heading sensor. So, can i use the radio AIS output in conjunction with a multiplexer to achieve my aim?

Regards

Dave
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I did precisely that with the same MFD and the SH radio. All nmea inputs go through the multiplexer and out to the one C80 input.
 
can anyone help with connecting a toughbook running Tiki Gold to the GX2200
Tiki demo program is pretty cool and shows AIS vessels speed and coarse etc. ,but where does it get this information ?
 
nigelmercier said:
Do remember that AIS will be at 38400 Baud, so the listener will need to read that.
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Yes, and bear in mind that the NMEA data speed can be switched to 38400 on the C80, but this affects both input and output, they have to be at the same speed - so if you have any NMEA devices connected to the C80 output, these will need to accept 38400 baud.
 
davethedog said:
Hello all,

Looking at a form of AIS receiver and quite like the idea of theStandard Horizon GX2200E VHF as it is all in one unit (as need to upgrade the fixed radio anyway).

So, if I buy this can I connect it up to my Raymarine C80, bearing in mind that the NMEA inout for the C80 is already taken by the smart heading sensor. So, can i use the radio AIS output in conjunction with a multiplexer to achieve my aim?

Regards

Dave
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Buy my RO4800 :)
 
aussi said:
Yes, and bear in mind that the NMEA data speed can be switched to 38400 on the C80, but this affects both input and output, they have to be at the same speed - so if you have any NMEA devices connected to the C80 output, these will need to accept 38400 baud.
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Although the OP is proposing to buy a muxer so he can presumably feed the 38400 C80 output into the muxer and pick up the 4800 output from that.

Richard
 
aussi said:
Yes, and bear in mind that the NMEA data speed can be switched to 38400 on the C80, but this affects both input and output, they have to be at the same speed - so if you have any NMEA devices connected to the C80 output, these will need to accept 38400 baud.
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The OP only mentioned a Smart Heading sensor being connected to the NMEA port, and the sensor is input only (it uses SeaTalk for calibration).
 
Thanks for all the replies.

As mentioned the plan is for the NMEA output of the AIS radio to go to the C80 (as well as the NMEA smart heading sensor), so no need to output any NMEA from the C80.

Regards
 
davethedog said:
As mentioned the plan is for the NMEA output of the AIS radio to go to the C80 (as well as the NMEA smart heading sensor), so no need to output any NMEA from the C80.
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Sounds like you've got a good solution with a mux. I just thought I would mention the NMEA speed limitation on the C80 as it was something that affected my own AIS integration (I did previously use NMEA output to a device that only accepted 4800).
 
Just ordered the digital yacht multiplexer and will get the radio this weekend and hopefully get it all to work easily enough....fingers crossed!
 
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