NASA AIS Engine 3

[oakleyb]

Is it possible to connect feed from AIS to both Standard horizon 180 and also laptop at the same time. It came with a cable which has a 9 pin plug 1 end and nothing the other end.It also has a blue wire (what's this for ?)

Any help appreciated

 

[VicMallows]

The NASA AIS normally comes with a 9pin cable to connect to the serial port of a computer. Of course no laptops have had serial ports for very many years! You therefore have to use a serial-usb adapter (cheap enough on ebay) ...but this can sometimes be tortuous. If you break into the cable I don't see why you you should not be able to feed the data somewhere else as well.

The stray blue wire is an INPUT if you want to feed in GPS data at 4800 baud from an (old fashioned??) GPS. The Nasa then multiplexes it with the AIS data and outputs it at 38400 baud to the serial port.

(The info is there in the down-loadable manual, but not exactly a great example of clear writing )

 

[rogerthebodger]

Is it possible to connect feed from AIS to both Standard horizon 180 and also laptop at the same time. It came with a cable which has a 9 pin plug 1 end and nothing the other end.It also has a blue wire (what's this for ?)

Any help appreciated

Yes I have done just that. I feed my Standard horizon GX2000 and a RS232 to USB into my laptop.

I made up a connector 9 pin male and female and took a wires from pin 2 and 5 from between the two 9 pin connectors.

Here are pics of made up units

https://www.google.co.za/search?q=9...v&sa=X&ei=VHtQVajcJsXd7ga5xoHIAg&ved=0CCoQsAQ

I also did the same for the GPS mouse output into the SH radio and my VAPP crew saver unit