Advantage of Class B+ AIS on a sailboat?

[akopac]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Exactly, for a system like this to work well, all parts of it need to be done right. There is a large safety margin and unfortunately some people like to use that up for normal operation, leaving not enough margin to cope with situations like bad weather, compromised installations at the other boat/ship etc.







Exactly, the difference is huge.







So what was your SWR on channel 16? If it was 2:1 or worse, your installation isn’t okay and is causing interference on other systems aboard or at other boats. The cases where channel 16 traffic was problematic because of AIS interference are documented.

Last time I did a radio check with the vhf and old antenna I got out to 27 miles. The antenna wire and connectors are good. Don’t know what the new antenna vswr on vhf is though. I just put it up yesterday.

[s/v Jedi]

Here’s a little snippet with info supporting my posts above.

[goboatingnow]

If my AIS can’t reach satellites I see that as a good thing

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

If my AIS can’t reach satellites I see that as a good thing

Ha! With our Vesper we can disable transmissions completely

The reason for being seen by AIS satellites is during emergencies, when SAR teams try to find you.