sebastiannr
Well-Known Member
Hi there,
I'm having some trouble wiring up my ICOM MXA-5000 AIS receiver to the Garmin 17N GPS antenna. I don't have any real experience with NMEA so please bear with me if I've gotten myself into confused mess.
I recently got a Vesper Marine watchmate 670 and want to be able to display AIS data without having the chart plotter on. Currently the AIS gets it's GPS info via the Garmin 2010C chart plotter, but I want to bypass that as it uses quite a bit of power (don't need it on during longer passages).
I assume that the 17N can act as a stand-alone GPS receiver as it has power cables and can be connected directly to a PC. It has a 'data out'; 'data in' and a yellow 'on' cable. The AIS has 'data in' positive and negative for receiving GPS data. I assume that the data out from the antenna should go to the 'data in +' on the AIS, but what goes to the 'data in negative'?
If anyone can tell me if it's possible to do what I'm trying to do, and what should go into the 'data in' positive and negative on the AIS, that would be much appreciated!
I'm having some trouble wiring up my ICOM MXA-5000 AIS receiver to the Garmin 17N GPS antenna. I don't have any real experience with NMEA so please bear with me if I've gotten myself into confused mess.
I recently got a Vesper Marine watchmate 670 and want to be able to display AIS data without having the chart plotter on. Currently the AIS gets it's GPS info via the Garmin 2010C chart plotter, but I want to bypass that as it uses quite a bit of power (don't need it on during longer passages).
I assume that the 17N can act as a stand-alone GPS receiver as it has power cables and can be connected directly to a PC. It has a 'data out'; 'data in' and a yellow 'on' cable. The AIS has 'data in' positive and negative for receiving GPS data. I assume that the data out from the antenna should go to the 'data in +' on the AIS, but what goes to the 'data in negative'?
If anyone can tell me if it's possible to do what I'm trying to do, and what should go into the 'data in' positive and negative on the AIS, that would be much appreciated!
