Raytheon SL70 and AIS?

[alisdair4]

Raytheon SL70 and AIS?

Does anyone know if the Raytheon SL70 is AIS-compatible? I've looked at the website - but it's not particularly clear. (at least to my level of technological knowledge!)

 

[robbieg]

Re: Raytheon SL70 and AIS?

No its not-if you want to check drop their customer services an email or give them a ring-they are pretty good at answering queries. If you want AIS and Raymarine you need C or E Series displays I believe. Another solutions is a Standard Horizon CP180 + an Nasa AIS engine-chartplotter and AIS for about£550-600 depending on the CMap you choose & whether you need a seperate ariel-lot cheaper than the Raymarine route.

 

[Oldhand]

Re: Raytheon SL70 and AIS?

No, Pathfinder Series displays were not updated to accept AIS and so don't take advantage of having 2 NMEA input ports as opposed to the single port on the C & E Series. The processor on the SL72 probably doesn't have the capacity anyway but the colour plotter displays (RL70/80CRC) probably do. However, Raymarine refuse to develop anything after it has been "superceded".

 

[alisdair4]

Re: Raytheon SL70 and AIS?

I had a feeeling that would be the case. So given that I don't want to spend a fortune on a new chartplotter, and that my GPS feeds the chartplotter programme on my laptop, is there scope to take an AIS feed and a radar feed onto the laptop?

 

[andygreen84]

Re: Raytheon SL70 and AIS?

you should try contacting someone dealing in raymarine equipment, in beaumaris anglesey a new place has opened i found it on the North Wales Index.

 

[Oldhand]

Re: Raytheon SL70 and AIS?

AIS on a PC is easy, get ShipPlotter, http://www.coaa.co.uk/shipplotter.htm and supply an AIS input to a serial port or through a USB/Serial converter. However to input your GPS position data at the same time you will need a multiplexer. Alternatively, use the audio from a suitable receiver's FM discriminator directly into the PC line or microphone audio inputs and ShipPlotter will do the decoding and there is no problem continuing to feed the GPS input as you do already.

Getting radar display onto a PC is an expensive operation and IMHO unecassary. You would have to look at getting Nobeltec, http://www.nobeltec.com/products/prod_radarmodels.asp