Gadget question

[Twister_Ken]

For all you gizmologists out there - do any of the marine electronics firms make a chartplotter with an integrated AIS engine?

You can tell I haven't been paying attention to all the bits of paper that fall out of yotmags.

 

[ParaHandy]

raymarine C series do ....
altho' i fancy if you popped over to PBO you'd find somebody able to make something with an FB tin at fraction of cost .....

 

[tome]

Not as far as I'm aware (Raymarine C series isn't integrated, young Para!)

C & E sries handle AIS but you'll need an external engine

 

[ParaHandy]

oops .. yer right .. its an add on ...

 

[Saguday]

I asked Raymarine at LIBS if/when they are going to bring an AIS engine out for the C/E series. They said "certainly sir" and gave me a pre-release flyer for an engine that will also include NMEA muxing, VHF splitter etc. Can't remember price, hundreds of squids though, availability Mar/Apr apparently.