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04-08-2012, 11:03 PM
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Anyone use VHF AIS- automatic identification system?
Just wondering- it seems like a way to see and be seen other than radar. Looks like the VHF broadcasts your position/speed/heading and you can see other big traffic that requires AIS and little traffic that has optional VHF AIS radios.
Might be a big help at night. And you can look at AIS vessel locations from the web: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ Pretty neat stuff... I am looking at a Standard Horizon GX2100 or 2150 for this. 
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04-09-2012, 12:51 AM
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No, but thanks for the website.
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04-09-2012, 08:55 AM
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I have 2 standard vhf with ais. It shows you all the boats around you and interfaces with my Furuno and Garmin chartplotters. They will show you boats that are dangerously close as well as giving you info on boat name speed direction cargo and calculate closest distance and time to closest distance. I find it very helpful and have used it to hail cruise ships that seemed to not be seeing me and were on a very close approach while i was fishing. You can select the boat on the vhf and go ship to ship direct vs hailing them and waiting for a response. They do not transmit your position-if you want that you need to buy a dedicated AIS transmitter.
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