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Forum: General Sailing Forum 04-10-2015, 03:57
Replies: 109
Views: 55,675
Posted By Dockhead
Re: AIS and cruising

Human nature is everyone will rely more and more on receiving your AIS signal to know you're there and will invest less and less effort detecting boats without AIS. It's bad and it's wrong but it's...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 04-10-2015, 03:52
Replies: 109
Views: 55,675
Posted By Dockhead
Re: AIS and cruising

My set (Sitex black box) actually has wires for a hardware "silent" switch. Would probably take 20 minutes to install one. Just never bothered as I have just never had any situations where I wanted...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-10-2015, 17:49
Replies: 109
Views: 55,675
Posted By Dockhead
Re: AIS and cruising

Yes, you have to turn the alarm off in harbor in any case. The AIS alarm is only valid in open water anyway where vessels are holding a more or less steady course. In harbour you get nonstop...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-10-2015, 15:59
Replies: 109
Views: 55,675
Posted By Dockhead
Re: AIS and cruising

I can go "silent mode" if I fiddle with the computer interface, but never really saw any need to bother. Don't see why my AIS data would bother anyone, especially way up the river like where my...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 02-10-2015, 12:09
Replies: 109
Views: 55,675
Posted By Dockhead
Re: AIS and cruising

That would be me. Although I never stay on my mooring for more than 3 or 4 days. But the navigation system runs 24/7 in any case, for various reasons - watching the wind, monitoring generator,...
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